LINGUISTICA ITALIANA

The course will focus on the birth and the development of Italian language, from its origins to contemporary period. In particular, students will have to discuss on the correlation between language and dialects, on the norm’s fixation and the spread of literary language, as well as the spread of Italian language through centuries.

General learning objectives include the acquisition of full awareness in the analysis of Italian language structures, especially for what concerns its formal aspects and the differences linked to context varieties.

Attending the course, students will gain theoretical and methodological instruments to:

• recognize, learn and understand phenomena of Italian language linked to different contexts;
• know technical language of Linguistics;
• learn to use linguistc’s tools to analyze and to describe language’s aspects;
• know how to develop a critical discussion.

During the course, made of 18 lessons, there will be 3 tests to verify the achievement of different objectives. All students that will do the tests during the course will be able to divide the final program; all other students will do a unique written test before final exam.

The tests will focus on these subjects:

• language varieties and their principal linguistic traits;
• language structures and syntactical analysis;
• history of Italian language.

If the course will be organized in blended modalit, what above declared could be subjected to variations in order to respect the expected program.

• The architecture of contemporary Italian: variational axes.
• Standard language;
• Spoken language;
• neostandard language;
• Dialects and regional languages;
• Popular Italian;
• Special languages;
• Structures of Italian language: phonetics; morphology; syntax; punctuation; lexicon.
• Textuality; textual typologies;
• Language and extralinguistic context;
• History of Italian language, from its origins to contemporary period;
• Unification, norm, and the spread of Italian language;
• Contacts between Italian and English.

Bonomi Ilaria, Masini Andrea, Morgana Silvia, Piotti Mario, Elementi di linguistica italiana, Carocci, edizione 2020¹³.

Serianni Luca, Prima lezione di grammatica, Laterza, edizione 2020¹⁶

Gualdo Riccardo, Gli accoppiamenti maliziosi. Scambi e contatti di lingua, e altro, tra italiane e inglesi, Cesati, 2019.

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.