"G. d'Annunzio"
It would be desirable for students to have a very good command of Italian and its varieties, as well as of one of the Italo-Romance dialects. Good knowledge of (one or more) foreign languages and of (one or more) ancient languages would also be appreciated.
Although conceived as introductive, lessons aim to provide a wide picture of the crucial complexity of language, also by the aid of epistemological hints to other disciplines and of 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 a basic formal framework, and to provide arguments following a hypothetic way of reasoning.
The course aims to provide some basic knowledges in the field of Theoretical Linguistics. Students will achieve the ability 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. Berruto, M. Cerruti, “La Linguistica. Un corso Introduttivo”. Torino, UTET, 2017.
For English-speaker students: V. Fromkin, "Linguistics: An Introduction to Linguistic Theory". Wiley, 1999.
Classroom-taught lessons, with frequent exercises. Attendance to this course is highly recommended.
Oral exam.
Students who cannot attend 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. Students may have an English tutorship.