GENERAL LINGUISTICS
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2022/2023
- Teacher
- LAURA BAFILE
- Credits
- 12
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- L-LIN/01
Training objectives
- Approaching theoretical and epistemological issues concerning the faculty of language, its nature and its structure. Acquiring instrument for the analysis basic morphosyntax of Italian and other European languages studied in the course.
Prerequisites
- none
Course programme
- The course will address some of the basic elements of synctactic structure and the problems connected to its representation. Some classical issues of cross-linguistic syntactic variation (synchronic and diachronic) will be taken into account, concerning the languages studied in this "Laurea Magistrale"; syntactic structures specific to different languages will be analysed.
Didactic methods
- Lectures, with students' participation aimed at developing and testing theory and practice.
Students that cannot attend can target the training objects through private study, by means of the textbooks and other teaching material suggested for attending students (see Reference texts).
Students that do not attend may choose the option of using videotaped lectures to be downloaded from a dedicated Google Classroom Learning assessment procedures
- The exam (written+oral) assesses the theoretical knowledge of the essential properties of faculty of language and the architecture of grammar, on the one hand, and the ability to analyse syntactic structure, especially applied to European languages, on the other.
The exam consists of:
- a written test based on Cecchetto's book and downloadable pdf
- an oral test, completeng the written test
The written test consists of 10 questions: some of them ask for a definition or a reflection about concepts treated in the course, others consist of problems of syntactic analysis. Reference texts
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Cecchetto, C. "Introduzione alla sintassi" LED 2002.
Bafile, L. "Elementi di sintassi comparata di lingue europee" Pdf downloadable from the folder Materiale didattico
