- Docente: Svetlana Slavkova
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-LIN/21
- Language: Russian
- 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