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85097 - Romance Linguistics (1) (LM)

Academic Year 2019/2020

                
                        Docente:
                        Luciano Formisano
                    
                        Credits:
                        6
                    
                        SSD:
                        L-FIL-LET/09
                    
                        Language:
                        Italian
                    
                        Teaching Mode:
                        Traditional lectures
                        
                            Campus:
                            Bologna
                        
                            Corso:
                            Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
                            Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, Linguistics (cod. 9220)

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Learning outcomes

The course aims at introducing to the study of Romance languages from a comparative point of view, with especial consideration of their classification and variety with regards to the Latin model. Students will be able to recognize the principal features of the Romance languages and to analize single cases of changing in phonology, morphology and syntax.

Course contents

The course (fourth period; biginning: 23 march 2020) is organized into two sections:

1. Introduction to Romance Linguistics

Subject of this section is the origin and development of the Romance languages with especial consideration of Italian and Gallo-Roman (French and Provencal) studied from a historical and comparative point of view. Topics: vulgar Latin; origin and classification of the Romance languages; standard language and dialects; the so-called "Romania nova"; the main features of the Romances languages: phonology; morphology; syntax; vocabulary; the first documents of French and Italian.

2.The Romance languages in contact

In this part the teacher will illustrate the principal forms of the linguistic contact between Italian (and Sardinian) on the one hand, Gallo- and Ibero-Romance, on the other.

Readings/Bibliography

Part I: Students will read P. Gresti, Introduzione alla linguistica romanza, Bologna, Pàtron, 2016.

Part II: Student will read the texts available in pdf format (platform iol.unibo.it) at the beginning of the course.

Students not attending to the course will also read one of the following books:

1. G.L. Beccaria, Spagnolo e spagnoli in Italia. Riflessi ispanici sulla lingua italiana del Cinque e del Seicento, Torino, Giappichelli, 1968 (reprint, ibid., id., 1985), capp. I-II, IV.

2. S. Morgana, L'influsso francese, in Storia della lingua italiana, direzione A. Asor Rosa, Torino, Einaudi, 3.Le altre lingue, 1994, pp. 671-719.

Teaching methods

Lessons ex cathedra.

Assessment methods

Final oral examination concerning the whole course contents, according to the above-given indications. In particular, students are required to show a good ability of independent and critical study. Good language skills and knowledge of the linguistic terminonolgy are also required.

Teaching tools

Books, xerocopies, pdf.

Office hours

See the website of Luciano Formisano