- Docente: Sergio Scalise
- Credits: 9
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Foreign Languages and Literature (cod. 0979)
Course contents
The notion of Lasnguage will be examined with the target of illustrating what is a language, how it is structured and how it changes in the course of time. Then the various componet of a language will be studied, in patrticular: phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Attention will payed to the social stratification of language. Dictionaries and web resources for the study of linguistics will be illustrted.
Readings/Bibliography
G. Graffi, S. Scalise, . Le lingue e il linguaggio, Bologna, Il
Mulino, 2004.
F. de Saussure, Corso di linguistica Generale, Bari, Laterza 1969
(pp. 1-168)
N.Chomsky, Aspetti della teoria della sintassi, in: La grammatica
generativa trasformazionale, Saggi linguistici vol. II, Torino,
Boringhieri, 1970. Capitoli 1-2-3 (pp. 41-183).
Teaching methods
Methodology is both empirical and theoretical. Many data from several languages will be analyzed in explicit theoretical frameworks.
Assessment methods
The exam is written, based on fifteen questions
Teaching tools
Web resources. Power point presentations.
Links to further information
http://morboteach.lingue.unibo.it/doku.php
Office hours
See the website of Sergio Scalise