GENERAL LINGUISTICS WITH LABORATORY M - Z

At the end of my course, students

1) will acquire a general knowledge of the concepts and methods of the discipline;

2) on the basis of this knowledge, will be able to understand and discuss linguistic hypotheses starting from the observation of texts and examples;

3) will be able to effectively select and consult the most recent tools of Italian and foreign lexicography.

Through laboratory activities, students will:

• acquire the necessary phonetic transcription skills (useful for example in consulting any dictionary, Italian or foreign);

• learn to represent, according to some theoretical models, the morphological structure of Italian words

• understand and represent the syntactic structure of italian sentences, comparing Italian with other languages.

Frontal lesson.

Active learning.

The course is divided into two modules:

1. Fundamentals of linguistics: Levels of linguistic analysis (phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics). Sociolinguistics and Pragmatics. Linguistic typology. Textual linguistics. L1 acquisition, L2 learning, bilingualism.

2. Idiomaticity, vocabulary and dictionaries: Linguistic research and multimedia technologies: lexicon, usage dictionaries; characteristics of the main Italian and foreign monolingual dictionaries.

Fundamentals of Linguistics (7 CFU)

• G. Graffi, S. Scalise, Le lingue e il linguaggio. Introduzione alla linguistica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2013, chapters I-X, pp. 1-276.
• M. Frascarelli, F. Ramaglia e B. Corpina. Elementi di sintassi, Cesena/Bologna, Caissa Italia, 2014, capp. I, II, III (pp. 25-72).
• D. Gusmani, Interlinguistica in E. Campanile, E. De Felice, R. Gusmani, R. Lazzeroni (a c. di R. Lazzeroni), Linguistica storica, Roma, Carocci, 1987, pp. 87-114.
• M. Garraffa, A. Sorace, M. Vender, Il cervello bilingue, Roma, Carocci, 2020, pp. 1-114.
• Lecture notes (available on STUDIUM).

Idiomaticity, lexicon and dictionaries (2 CFU)

• Introduzione al Grande Dizionario della Lingua italiana (GraDIt), di T. De Mauro, Torino, Utet, 1999, vol. I, pp. VII-XLII (da integrare con le Introduzioni al Vol. VII [2004, pp. VII-XVI] e al vol. VIII [2007, pp. VII-XIII]).
• Postfazione al Grande Dizionario della Lingua italiana (GraDIt), di T. De Mauro, Utet, Torino, 2000, vol. VI, pp. 1163-1183.
• Presentazione - La trama del dizionario di F. Sabatini - V. Coletti, Dizionario della lingua italiana, Varese, Sansoni, 2012, pp. 7-16.
• S. Menza, L’informazione sintattica in A. Lanaia, S. Menza, S.C. Sgroi, S.C. Trovato, I. Valenti (a.c. di S.C. Trovato), Per un Nuovo Vocabolario Siciliano, Palermo, Centro di Studi filologici e linguistici siciliani, 2010, pp. 37-64.

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