GENERAL LINGUISTICS
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2022/2023
- Teacher
- LAURA BAFILE
- Credits
- 12
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- L-LIN/01
Training objectives
- - Knowledge of the essential properties of language as a faculty of human mind and as an instrument for communication;
- Basic knowledge of the components of natural languages, of the principles governing their grammars and of the properties of interlinguistic variation;
- Acquisition of basic tools for the analysis of natural languages and of the processes, both synchronic and diachronic, that affect the grammar and the lexicon. Prerequisites
- None
Course programme
- The course is an introduction to the descriptive and formal study of natural languages. It will introduce basic theoretical and methodological tools of linguistic analysis, mainly relating to phonology and morphosyntax. Data concerning Italian and other European languages will be discussed. Some major points about the nature of language faculty and communication will be presented.
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).
Integrative teaching material, including some videotaped presentations, will be available on a Google Classroom (access code rjdpyme) for both attending and non-attending students. Learning assessment procedures
- The exam is a written test that aims to assess the acquisition of basic linguistic knowledge and the ability to make elementary analysis of linguistic data.
The test includes (semi)closed-ended questions, and simple problems of linguistic analysis Reference texts
- - M. Nespor, L. Bafile I suoni del linguaggio Il Mulino 2008 Introduzione + capp da 1 a 5.
- L. Bafile Linguaggio, lingue, linguistica.pdf - Downloadable
- L. Bafile Elementi di morfosintassi.pdf - Downladable
