30370 - Latin Grammar (1) (LM)

Learning outcomes

The following knowledge and skills will be requested:
1. the ability to translate the texts in Latin listed in the program;
2. knowledge of phonetics, morphology and syntax;
3. the ability of carrying out a linguistic analysis of the studied texts.

Course contents

• Memoriter narrare, temporaliter dicere: le Confessioni come opera metanarrativa
  
• Focuses on some Aspects of Latin Syntax: the Verb
  

• Seneca, De brevitate vitae
  

• the course will be held during the 1st Semester;  classes  will start on November, 11,  2014

Readings/Bibliography

• I. Texts will be delivered during class as well as further literature on the subject of the course
  
• II. For the study of the syntax  the reading of A. Traina- T. Bertotti, Sintassi normativa della lingua latina, Bologna 1993 is supposed  as well as the study of chapters I-VII of A.Traina-G.Bernardi Perini, Propedeutica al latino universitario, Bologna (Pàtron)1995. The reading of A. Ernout- F. Thomas, Syntaxe latine, Paris 1984 (ed. Klincksieck) is just recommended. Further bibliography will be added during class.
• III. Seneca, La brevità della vita, introduzione, traduzione e note di A. Traina, Milano, BUR 2004
  

Teaching methods

Lectures in class. Please notice that the first two parts of the programm will be done during class, while students will be charged to the third one (the translation of a text from Latin into Italian);  Erasmus students are allowed to translate into  English, or French, or German, or Spanish as well. 

Assessment methods

Viva voce examination, which , through reading and translating from the Latin texts dealt with in class and listed in the program, will test  the ability of understanding and translating the studied texts and  the main linguistic aspects  (phonetics, morphology and syntax) of Latin.
assessment guidelines:
failing grades: lack of basic linguistic knowledge and inability to produce a correct translation and interpretation of th text.
passing grades: language proficiency at an intermediate level; translation and interpretation of the texts mostly correct, but inaccurate and lacking autonomy
excellent grades: language proficiency at an upper-mid level; translation and interpretation of the texts not only correct, but performed with autonomy and precision

Erasmus students are allowed to attend the exam - as far as translation from Latin is concerned - in English, French, German or Spanish.

Viva voce examination, which will test:
- the ability of understanding and translating the studied texts
- the main linguistic aspects  (phonetics, morphology and syntax), through reading and translating from the Latin texts dealt with in class and listed in the program.
Erasmus students are allowed to attend the exam - as far as translation from Latin is concerned - in English, French, German or Spanish.

Teaching tools

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