LINGUISTICS
Although conceived as introductive, the course aims to provide a wide picture of the unique, cucial complexity of language, also by recurring to epistemological hints to other disciplines and to some mentions to the history of Linguistics. At the end of the course, students are required to be able to describe and discuss linguistic phenomena according to some basic formal frameworks, and to provide arguments according to a hypothetic reasoning.
The course is meant to provide some basic knowledges in the field of Theoretical Linguistics. The students will be trained to describe and discuss a wide range of linguistic phenomena from ancient and modern languages. The matter is organized according to the canonical levels of analysis applied to natural languages (namely phonology, moprhology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics) and their interplays, both from a synchronic and a diachronic point of view.
The faculty of Language and natural languages; genealogical and typological classification; phonetics and phonology; morphology, syntax, pragmatics.
G. Graffi & S. Scalise, Le lingue e il linguaggio. Introduzione alla linguistica. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2002.
G. Graffi & S. Scalise, Le lingue e il linguaggio. Introduzione alla linguistica. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2002.
Classroom-taught lessons, with frequent exercises.
Attendance in this course is highly recommended. Students who cannot attend the course are kindly asked to take an appointment with the lecturer. Class contents and exam requirements are the same for both attending students and non-attenders.
Oral exam.
Attendance in this course is highly recommended. Students who cannot attend the course are kindly asked to take an appointment with the lecturer. Class contents and exam requirements are the same for both attending students and non-attenders.