30954 - Dutch Language and Linguistics 1

Course contents

First year:

a) History of the Dutch language. Cultural history of the Low Countries.

b) Linguistic activities (dott. Van der Heide) with the following themes: Identity (name, occupation, family), Space (house and home, nation, origin), Time (counting, chronology, narrative /Tense and time), Things and processes (eating and drinking, buying and selling, booking and ordering, presenting; taste, preference and habits). Phonology and Morphology: vowels, consonants and diphthongs; syllables, compounds. Grammar: the main clause, the verbal group, time and aspect, modality, nouns and adjectives. Pronouns, prepositions and adverbs.

Amsterdam Stories by Nescio

Second year:

The translation of culture-specific elements; introduction to Dutch-Italian contrastive syntax.

Third year:

a) Introduction to the Translation Studies.

b) Introduction to writing and composition: summary, letter and essay

Translation and writing, the translation of poetry, phonology and writing: Amsterdam Stories by Nescio

Readings/Bibliography

b) O. Boers, M. Heijne, CODE, Basisleergang Nederlands voor anderstaligen, 1, ThiemeMeulenhoff, Utrecht/Zutphen, 2004; J. van der Toorn-Schutte, Klare Taal!, Uitgebreide basisgrammatica NT2, Boom, Amsterdam, 2003; D. Ross, E. Koenraads, Grammatica neerlandese di base, Milano: Hoepli, 2007; H. van der Heide, Syllabus Taalverwerving.
Nescio, Storie di Amsterdam, trad. Fulvio Ferrari, Milano, Iperborea 2015.

Teaching methods

Students will participate actively with oral presentations.

Assessment methods

a) Oral presentation. Oral exam.
b) Written and spoken language test.

Teaching tools

The acquisition of linguistic skills may be supplemented with self access e-learning provided by  https//e-localcourses.eu

Office hours

See the website of Marco Prandoni