Italian Text Linguistics

3 ECTS credits
75 h study time

Offer 2 with catalog number 1021008BNR for all students in the 1st semester at a (B) Bachelor - advanced level.

Semester

1st semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Impossible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Enrollment Requirements

Om Linguistica testuale dell'italiano te kunnen opnemen, moet je geslaagd zijn voor Lingua, cultura e società in Italia, of dit vak tenminste opnieuw registreren. Geef steeds voorrang aan vakken uit de laagste fase van je opleiding. Als je een verkort programma volgt, kan je dit vak zo opnemen.

Taught in

Italian

Faculty

Faculty of Languages & Humanities

Department

Linguistics and Literary Studies

Educational team

Stefano De Pascale (course titular)

Activities and contact hours

26 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
38 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study

Course Content

The course intends to offer a first, targeted examination of linguistic topics, parallel to the development of the students' proficiency in Italian. It aims in particular to stimulate the development of specific reading and writing skills in the framework of the academic programme of Languages and Literature. The following aspects will be discussed:

- the simple sentence, with special attention to parsing, verbal valency and the use of impersonal, pronominal and passive structures;

- the syntax of complex sentences, with special attention to the use of mood and to the semantics of subordinating conjunctions in adverbial clauses;

- text grammar, with special attention to the use of connectives as a means to express semantic relations within texts.

Course material

Digital course material (Required) : Een reader zal ter beschikking gesteld worden, Canvas
Handbook (Required) : Grammatica italiana di base, Pietro Trifone & Massimo Palermo, Bologna, Zanichelli, 9788808420381, 2021
Handbook (Recommended) : L'analisi del periodo, Michele Prandi, Roma, Carocci, 9788843067091, 2013
Handbook (Recommended) : Scrivere all'università, Manuale pratico con esercizi e antologia di testi, Paola Italia, 2de, Mondadori Education, 9788800745024, 2014
Handbook (Recommended) : Nuova grammatica italiana, Gianpaolo Salvi & Laura Vanelli, Bologna, Il Mulino, 9788815099600, 2004

Additional info

None.

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

Students are able to analyse simple and complex sentences, to rephrase sentences by means of alternative constructions using the correct mood and to interpret semantic differences linked to these transformations. Lastly, students are able to recognise structural elements in texts or to propose alternative ways to clarify textual coherence.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 100% of the final mark.

Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Written Exam with a relative weight of 100 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

Note: Formative assessment

Additional info regarding evaluation

First examination period

Written exam (70%): the assessment rests mainly on exercises in relation to authentic contexts, yet a small number of questions on the studied linguistic models are part of the examination.

Assessment throughout the semester (30%): the student will have to complete some written assignments (articles, opinion, elaborate written exercises) during the course.

Second examination period

See first examination period. The exercises replacing the assessment throughout the semester will be fully integrated in the written exam.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context