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CODE 65076
ACADEMIC YEAR 2020/2021
CREDITS
SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR L-FIL-LET/12
LANGUAGE Italian
TEACHING LOCATION
  • GENOVA
SEMESTER 1° Semester
TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB

OVERVIEW

The course broadens the institutional knowledge acquired during the three-year degree course with a monograph approach.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Analysing knowledge of the history of the Italian language with particular attention to the ancient language, non-standard variations of Italian, literary Italian and issues of style and metrics.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of the course, students should be able to a) recognise the movement dynamics of the Italian language during history, as it maintained, changed and discarded forms (phonetics and morphology), words (lexicon) and constructions (syntax), b) in premodern texts recognise the elements that are obsolete today and their meanings, c) reflect on the plausibility and describability of the notion of ancient Italian.

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Italian Grammar and non grammatical phenomena.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

See Italian version

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

ENRICO TESTA (President)

PAOLO ZUBLENA

MANUELA MANFREDINI (Substitute)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

29th September 2020 at 9 a.m.

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Written report and oral exam

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Oral discussion of a written report assigned during the course.

Exam schedule

Data appello Orario Luogo Degree type Note
21/01/2021 09:30 GENOVA Orale
10/02/2021 09:30 GENOVA Orale
11/05/2021 11:00 GENOVA Orale
03/06/2021 09:30 GENOVA Orale
23/06/2021 09:30 GENOVA Orale
09/07/2021 09:30 GENOVA Orale
16/09/2021 09:30 GENOVA Orale

FURTHER INFORMATION

Students who have not taken a three-year course exam in History of the Italian Language or another course from the L-FIL-LET/12 sector must agree on an additional programme with teaching staff.