The course is concerned with sentence structure - how words are combined together to form phrases, phrases combined together to form larger phrases, clauses and sentences, and how clauses are combined together to form complex sentences.
The course will especially focus on:
Temporal adverbial clauses
Final subordinate clauses
Consecutive clauses
Adverbial concessive clauses
Causal clauses
Modal adverbial clauses
Develop understanding about compositionality, constituency and dependency relations and be able to identify constituent structure at an advanced level.
Develop understanding about grammatical relations and their expression.
Develop understanding about a variety of complex sentence phenomena.
Students should be able to recognize and analyze Spanish word structure, phrase structure and sentence structure in terms of categories and functions
Being able to identify constituents and agreement constraints will help students to improve and correct their academic writing.
Bring students to the B2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)
The linguistics module is made up of weekly lectures (3 hours a week over 10 weeks in the first semester). - Online classes
The practical module is made up of weekly classes (5 hours a week over 20 weeks, i.e. 10 weeks per semester). Online classes in the first semester
Second semester: Classroom teaching (depending on the evolution of covid-19 pandemic=)
Spanish Language II is divided into two parts: a one-semester linguistics module ("modulo teorico"), which is held in the first semester, and a two-semester practical module ("modulo pratico" or "esercitazioni" o "lettorato").
Linguistic Module:
Syntax: object of study and trends. Types of syntagmas: nominal, adjectival, adverbial, verbal and prepositional. Structure, function and semantics. Syntactic functions of syntagmas within the phrase. Syntactic analysis: the simple phrase. Subject and Predicate. Position of the elements. Concordance subject-predicate, classes of words. Syntactic analysis: the complex phrase. Coordinates and subordinates (substantive, adjectival, adverbial).
Linguistics module:
Pilar Hernández, Uso del indicativo y del subjuntivo, Madrid, Edelsa, 2016
Aoife Ahern, El subjuntivo: contextos y efectos, Madrid, Arco Libros, 2008
Gómez Torrego, Leonardo, Análisis sintáctico - Teoría y práctica, Ed SM - Hoepli, 2008
Practical module:
Francisca Castro Viúdez et al., Nuevo Español en Marcha 4, Libro del Alumno, editorial SGEL, Madrid, 2016
AA.VV. Competencia gramatical en uso B2, Madrid, Edelsa.
Teresa Gutiérrez Chávez et al, Latitud 0º, Manual de español intercultural, editorial SGEL, Madrid, 2015.
Ricevimento: Please visit http://www.lingue.unige.it/?dipendente=c0293
LAURA SANFELICI (President)
MARIA VICTORIA FILIPETTO
ANA LOURDES DE HERIZ RAMON (Substitute)
The first week of october.
SPANISH LANGUAGE II
The linguistics module is assessed through a written paper. There are two sittings in each of the three exam sessions. Students can choose only one sitting per session and can't repeat a failed exam in the same session.
The practical module is assessed through a written paper and an oral exam.
Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic written exams could be partially or totally moved online
The linguistics module is assessed through a written exam paper
The practical part is assessed through a written exam paper (grammar, vocabulary and writing) and an oral exam.
Attendance is not obligatory BUT STRONGLY RECOMMENDED.
