30970 - Russian Language and Linguistics 1

Course contents

Stressed vowels and reduction of unstressed vowels. 
Voiced and voiceless consonants, hard and soft consonants. 
Fundamental principles of Russian orthography. 

Morphology:

Declination of the nouns, the adjectives, the pronouns. 
Gender and number of the nouns, the adjectives and the pronouns.  
Characteristics of the nominative case. 
Characteristics of the accusative case with and without preposition.  
Characteristics of the prepositive case with and without preposition. 
Characteristics of the dative case with and without preposition. 
Characteristics of the genitive case with and without preposition. 
Characteristics of the instrumental case with and without preposition. 

Verb:  I and II conjugation.
Present tense, past tense, future tense (imperfective).

Transitive, intransitive, reflexive verbs.

Notion on the main verbs of motion without prefix.

Notions on the verbal aspects.

Syntax:                                                                                                                                                  

Simple statements, interrogative and negative sentences. 
The complex sentence:  the compound clauses. 

Readings/Bibliography

- Chernyshov S. I., Poekhali! 1, Zlatoust, St. Petersburg, 2011. (9th edition)

- Khavronina S. A., Shirochenskaya A. I., Russian in exercises, Russky Yazyk Kursy, 2009.

- Berardi S. - Buglakova L., Kraski-A1. Nuova edizione. Corso comunicativo multimediale per l'autoapprendimento della lingua russa di livello principiante A1, Clueb, Bologna, 2007.

- Berardi S., Buglakova L., Kraski A2. Corso comunicativo multimediale per l'autoapprendimento dlla lingua russa di livello A2, Bologna, Clueb, 2006.

 Testi di supporto:

 - Pul'kina I., Zachava-Nekrasova E., Il Russo. Grammatica pratica con esercizi, Edest, Genova, 1991.

- Anjuta Gančikov, Grammatica Russo facile, A. Vallardi Editore, Milano, 2011.

- Anjuta Gančikov, Esercizi Russo facile, A. Vallardi Editore, Milano, 2011.

 - Il Kovalev terza edizione con Cd-rom per Windows, Dizionario russo-italiano italiano-russo di Vladimir Kovalev, Bologna, Zanichelli, 2007.

Teaching methods

The course is articulated in 30 hours of frontal lessons, in which the linguistic competences are mainly developed, and in many hours of laboratory activities, that privilege the communicative competences. The tutorial lessons are part of the course and will be part of the exam program.

Assessment methods

The students are asked to take a written examination and an oral test.  The written test (4 hours) is to verify the linguistic competences, in particular elements of morphology and word-study, including the ability of written comprehension.  The oral test is focused on the communicative competences on the topics mentioned above.

Teaching tools

PC - computer – language laboratory with Internet; video projector; video recorder.

Office hours

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