- Docente: Cristiana De Santis
- Credits: 5
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Intercultural and Linguistic Mediation (cod. 8059)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, the students will know the main concepts and methodologies for the linguistics analysis and will be able to analyze the structure and functions of different types of texts.
Course contents
The course in an introduction to the study of the basics properties of human language and the principles of linguistic analysys.
The core of the course will focus on the different levels of linguistics analysis and their methodologies: phonetics and phonology (including the description and use of the International Phonetic Alphabet); morphology and the lexicon; syntax. The course will also describe how the languages of the world may vary and may be classified, and will include an overview of contemporary linguistics theories.
The metalinguistic reflection will be extended from Italian (the mother tongue of our students) to other natural languages.
Readings/Bibliography
Slides and teaching materials available online.
Textbooks:
M. Prandi, C. De Santis, Le regole e le scelte. Manuale di linguistica e di grammatica italiana, UTET, 2011 (Parts I, II, II, VII).
Gaetano Berruto, Massimo Cerruti, La linguistica. Un corso introduttivo, Torino, Utet, 2011 (Chapters I-V)
Nicola Grandi, Fondamenti di tipologia linguistica, nuova ed., Roma, Carocci, 2014, (pp. 1-60).
Gaetano Berruto, Le regole in linguistica, in La grammatica e l'errore. Le lingue naturali tra regole, loro violazioni ed eccezioni, a cura di N. Grandi, Bologna, BUP, 2015 (pp. 43-61).
Teaching methods
Traditional lectures and practicing
Assessment methods
Students are reminded that attending the lectures is
compulsory; non-attending students will not be admitted to the
final test.
The final evaluation of the course of Italian Linguistics is the
average of all the marks obtained in the individual parts: Italian
Language (prof. Gatta) and General Linguistics (prof. De Santis).
The positive outcome of all the parts of the exam is an
indispensable condition for recording the final grade.
General Linguistics: final written test. Criteria for assessing the
grade (form 18 to 30L) include both correctness of the answers and
formal accuracy.
Teaching tools
Lessons' slides available at AMS Campus (http://campus.unibo.it/)
Office hours
See the website of Cristiana De Santis