Morfosintassi dell’italiano

6 ECTS credits
150 h study time

Offer 2 with catalog number 1023267ANR for all students in the 1st semester at a (A) Bachelor - preliminary 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

Students must have taken ‘L'Italia di oggi: letteratura e storia culturale’, before they can enroll in this course. If you are enrolled in a preparatory programme you can register this course without restrictions

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 Lecture
72 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study

Course Content

This course will provide a first linguistic and theoretical introduction to the morphology and syntax of contemporary Italian. The description will emphasize both the specificity or similarity of Italian to other (European) languages and the recent developments that have characterized the standard Italian language in the last decades. The first lessons will introduce the cross-linguistic perspective, followed by some lessons on flexional and derivational morphology, and, finally, by an introduction to the form and information structure of Italian sentences.

Course material

Digital course material (Required) : Dispense in forma di presentazioni powerpoint, Stefano De Pascale, 2023
Handbook (Required) : Tutto ciò che hai sempre voluto sapere sul linguaggio e sulle lingue, A cura di Francesca Masini e Nicola Grandi, Seconda edizione, Caissa Italia Editore, Cesena, 9788867290444, 2017
Handbook (Recommended) : L'italiano contemporaneo, Paolo D'Achille, Il Mulino, Bologna, 9788815114235, 2006
Handbook (Recommended) : Linguistica italiana, Massimo Palermo, seconda edizione, Il Mulino, Bologna, 9788815284891, 2020
Handbook (Recommended) : Nuova grammatica italiana, Giampaolo Salvi e Laura Vanelli, Il Mulino, Bologna, 9788815099600, 2004

Additional info

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

By the end of the lectures, students will be able to provide complete and accurate descriptions of specific structures and developmental tendencies in the domains of Italian morphology and syntax, also by comparing with similar phenomena in the other language studied in the study programme. Students will also be able to creatively apply acquired knowledge in analyses of new case studies. Finally, students will also have a first exposure to the processing of Italian linguistic scientific literature.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 80% of the final mark.
Other Exam determines 20% of the final mark.

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

Syllabus en handboek with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 80% of the final mark.

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

Presentatie van hoofdstuk with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 20% of the final mark.

Note: /

Additional info regarding evaluation

Students have to succeed in all parts of the evaluation procedure in order to obtain a pass mark for the whole course.

Student who fail to participate in all the parts of the evaluation procedure will be automatically marked as "absent".

Students can transfer to the next exam session the results of those parts of the evaluation process for which they have obtained a pass mark. These result can not be transferred to the following academic year.

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