20118 - Spanish B - 2 (P-Z)

Learning outcomes

The course aims at studying the structures and syntactic rules in Spanish as well as analyzing the phrase and systematically exploring the basic notions of syntax.

Course contents

LINGUISTICS

1. Syntax: object of study and trends. Descriptive and functional syntax.

2. Syntactic categories: types of words, locutions (determinative, adverbial, prepositional, conjunctional and verbal) and syntactic groups or syntagma.

3. Syntactic functions of the words types: nucleus or core, updater, modifier, direct complement, indirect complement, circumstantial, predicative, agent, regime, attribute, apposition.

4. Types of syntagma: nominal, adjectival, adverbial, verbal and prepositional. Structure and function of syntagmas. Significance. Nucleus of the nominal syntagma and modifiers: ‘substantivation'. Functions of the adjectives, demonstratives and articles; nucleus of the verbal syntagma and complements: temporal and modal aspects of the verb. Verbal periphrases. Use of “se”. Direct and Indirect speech.

5. Enunciate: according to the speaker and the grammatical nature of the predicate. Relationship between phrases of different classes.

6. Syntactic analysis: the simple phrase. Subject and Predicate. Position of the elements of the phrase. Concordance subject-predicate, classes of phrases. Horizontal diagram. Phonology and syntax of the simple phrase. Use of “se”.

7. Syntactic analysis: the complex phrase. Coordinates and subordinates (substantive, adjectival, adverbial). Transformation from simple to complex and vice versa. Use of subjunctive / indicative. Relation within the phrase: the connectors.

8. Syntax of the text.

PRACTICES OF SPANISH LANGUAGE (Annual course)
Dott.ssa Delia Cócera (dcocera@lingue.unibo.it) e Dott. Luis Maria Romeu (luis.romeuguallart@unibo.it)

Readings/Bibliography

Compulsory Bibliography - Linguistics

-   Alvar, Manuel (2000), Introducción a la lingüística española, Barcelona, Ariel. pp. 7-22, 371-380, 463-478, 491-499.

-   Cascón Martín, Eugenio (2000), Sintaxis.Teoría y práctica del análisis oracional, Madrid, Edinumen.

 

Practices of Spanish Language

Compulsory bibliography:
- Moreno, C. et alii: AVANCE: Curso de español. Nivel intermedio-avanzado. Edit. SGEL. Madrid, 2006.
- Grammatica di appoggio: Garcés, P., La oración compuesta en español: estructuras y nexos, Editorial Verbum.

Teaching methods

On this course will be applied the following methodologies:

- implementation of activities in order to consolidate the knowledge about the Spanish morphosyntactic structures;
- implementation of activities in order to increase the lexicon and to understand the pragmatic connotations;
- implementation of activities in order to consolidate a correct phonologic system and a correct orthography;
- continuous exercises in order to develop the four basic abilities.

Assessment methods

LINGUISTICS

Oral exam in Spanish about the contents of the course and syntactic analysis of a paragraph. The student shall succeed a previous written exam (esercitazioni della lingua) in order to access the oral exam of Spanish language B (Linguistics).

PRACTICES ON SPANISH LANGUAGE

WRITING examination
This course's final evaluation will be made by means of a written exam that students should pass in order to be admitted to the oral exam (only the students with a positive result of 18/30 will be allowed to do the oral exam). The student should demonstrate the knowledge of the different items practised during the course related to the morphosyntactic structures, the lexicon, the writing ability and the translation. Questions will be especifically related to the grammar in the text of Pilar Garcés (see Bibliography). The use of any type of dictionaries will be forbidden.

ORAL examination
Once the writing exam will be passed and no more than six sessions after the writing examination, the student will be allowed to do the oral exam. He/she should demonstrate that he/she knows the morphosyntactic, semantic and pragmatic contents presented during the course in an oral explanation of the texts of the dossier presented by the assistants.

Office hours

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