HISTORY AND GRAMMAR OF THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE

The course will adopt an interactive approach, aimed at making students aware and therefore applying the "rules" of linguistic and textual use of Italian with full mastery.

In the introductory lessons and in the workshop activities, paths of external and internal linguistic history will be built, with exercises aimed at transmitting metalinguistic skills suitable for a conscious active and passive knowledge of the Italian language.

External linguistic history: evolution from spoken Latin to the Tuscan dialect and the Italian language at all structural levels and in all varieties of use, focusing on the dynamics of italianization in written and oral communication (literature, religion, politics, bureaucracy, mass media) Internal linguistic history: observation of the principal phonetic, lexical and semantic, morphological changes in the passage from Latin to Italian; Grammar and stylistics: inter-relations among the various linguistic levels and analysis of different kinds of literary and non-literary texts.

Text for the first teaching unit :

• C. Marazzini, La lingua italiana. Storia, testi, strumenti, Bologna, Il Mulino 2015, pp. 358

Texts for the second teaching unit

Grammar and text linguistics about contemporary Italian language (3 CFU).

Text:

- R. Librandi, L’italiano: strutture, usi, varietà, Roma, Carocci, 2019, pp. 318.

Text for the third teaching unit

1. Newspapers Italian language (2 CFU).

Text:

- R. Gualdo, L’italiano dei giornali, Roma, Carocci, 2019, pp. 144.

Reference texts for students who consider that they have not completed the prerequisites required for the discipline, and reference texts for students, for the purposes of the activities envisaged in the course:

• M. Dardano, P. Trifone, La nuova grammatica della lingua italiana, Bologna, Zanichelli, 2002, pp. 768
• M. Prandi, C. De Santis, Manuale di linguistica e di grammatica italiana, Utet 2019, pp. 576

Any other materials will be provided during the lectures and uploaded to Studium