12619 - Russian Language and Linguistics

Academic Year 2013/2014

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Interpreting (cod. 8060)

Course contents

Course contents

The program will cover some key issues concerning both Russian morphology and syntax, with particular emphasis on the following topics:


- The category of definiteness / indefiniteness in Russian;
- Collocations in Russian;
- Elements of style;
- Lexical and syntactic synonymy;
- Expression of the subject in Russian;
- Impersonal phrases and depersonalization;
- Nominalization as a feature of the Russian language;
- The complex sentence in Russian: coordination and subordination;
- Basic rules of punctuation in Russian.

Readings/Bibliography

Svedova N.Ju., Lopatin V.V. (pod red.) Russkaja grammatika, M.: Russkij jazyk, 1990

Apresjan Ju.D. Leksičeskaja semantica. M.: Škola "Jazyki russkoj kulìtury", 1995.

Grigor'eva O.N. Stilistika russkogo jazyka. M.: NVI-TEZAURUS, 2000.

Teaching methods

- Lectures;

- Practical lessons;

- Presentation and comment on students' papers;

- Reading and comment on different typology of texts.

Assessment methods

Written and oral test.
There will be a written lexico-grammatical test consisting of a paper on one of the theoretical topics discussed in class and an oral examination that will test the ability for grammatical and stylistic analysis of a proposed text.

Teaching tools

- Bilingual and  monolingual dictionaries;

- Dictionary of synonyms and antonyms;

- Russian National Corpus;

- Russian browsers.

Office hours

See the website of Svetlana Slavkova