31306 - Russian Linguistics and Language 3

Learning outcomes

The theoretical course will look closely at syntax as well as some stylistic features and lexicography.

Course contents

Course contents

• Formation and use of active and passive participle. Short and long forms of participles.
• Formation and use of gerund. Verbal adverbs.
• Syntax: conjunctions, time and verbal aspects concord.
• Transformation of symple phrase in complex sentence. Exercises on translation from Italian to Russian.
• Study of verbal aspects. Use of prefixed verbs.

Stylistics, lexicology and pragmatics.

Readings/Bibliography

- Kapitonova T.I. i dr., Zhivem i uchimsja v Rossii, CD + Rabochaja tetrad' po grammatike, SPb, Zlatoust, 2003.

- Ivanova I.S., Karamysheva L.M. i dr., Sintaksis,  SPb, Zlatoust, 2009

Il Kovalev seconda edizione con Cd-rom per Windows, Dizionario russo-italiano italiano-russo di Vladimir Kovalev, Bologna, Zanichelli, 2000.

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

- Cevese C., Dobrovolskaja Ju., Sintassi russa, Milano, Hoepli 2005

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

- Glazunova O.I., Grammatika russkogo jazyka, Morfologija,  SPb, Zlatoust, 2000

. Glazunova O.I., Grammatika russkogo jazyka, Sintaksis, SPb, Zlatoust, 2011

- S. A. Khavronina, A. I. Shirochenskaya, Russian in exercises, Russky Yazyk Kursy, 2007.

Teaching methods

The course in articulated in 30 hours of frontal lesson, in which the linguistic theorical competences are mainly developed.

Oral practice lessons, held by dott. L. Poutsileva (lexical and grammar practice and oral comprehension and practice) are an essential part of the teaching and exam programs. A seminar about  translation from Russian to Italian, held by prof. Niero, will integrate the course.

Assessment methods

The written exam consists of a grammar test and two written translation tests (one from Italian into Russian, without dictionaries, and another from Russian into Italian with a dictionary) - about 4 hours. The written exam is a prerequisite to the oral exam, which will include the reading and linguistic analysis of a text in Russian as well as a conversation on an everyday topic dealt with during the course and agreed on with the teachers.

Teaching tools

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

Office hours

See the website of Monica Perotto