| GENERAL LINGUISTICS 3
(objectives)
3rd yr 6 ECTS LLE and OCI curriculum
Cross-linguistic comparative analysis:
Typology and levels of analysis; interaction between different levels of grammar (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics). Identification of universal principles of language and their different realizations in typologically different languages. Critical reflection on data and on theoretical hypotheses.
Diachronic linguistics: history of comparative linguistics, comparative method, indo-europeistic reconstruction (phonetics, morphology), comparison between genetic, areal and typological classification; linguistic change (at different levels), its motivations and diffusion.
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Code
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20704168 |
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Language
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ITA |
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Type of certificate
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Profit certificate
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Credits
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6
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Scientific Disciplinary Sector Code
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L-LIN/01
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Contact Hours
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36
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Type of Activity
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Basic compulsory activities
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Group: CANALE 1
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Derived from
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20704168 GENERAL LINGUISTICS 3 in Languages and Cultural-Linguistic Mediation L-12 CANALE 1 LOMBARDI VALLAURI EDOARDO
(syllabus)
Linguistic type. Typological corpus. Syntactic and morphological typology. Areal typology. Diachronic typology. Linguistic universals and tendencies. Implicational universals. Explaining language universals. Biological bases for language, brain localization, mirror neurons. Brain imaging techniques. Language in humans and non-humans. Origins (onto- and phylogenesis) of language. Linguistic innatism, functionalism, evolutionism.
(reference books)
- N. Grandi, Fondamenti di tipologia linguistica, Carocci.
- E. Lombardi Vallauri, The Relation between Mind and Language. The Innateness Hypothesis and the Poverty of the Stimulus, in The Linguistic Review 21, 2004, pp. 345-387.
- M. Christiansen – N. Chater, Language as shaped by the brain, in “Behavioral and Brain Sciences” 31, 2008, pp. 489-509 (cioè senza gli interventi di discussione di altri autori).
- F. Di Vincenzo – G. Manzi, Alla ricerca delle origini. In (a cura di N. Grandi), Nuovi dialoghi sulle lingue e il linguaggio, Pàtron, pp. 71-88.
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Dates of beginning and end of teaching activities
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Delivery mode
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Traditional
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Attendance
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not mandatory
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Evaluation methods
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Written test
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Group: CANALE2
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20704168 GENERAL LINGUISTICS 3 in Languages and Cultural-Linguistic Mediation L-12 CANALE 2 POMPEI ANNA
(syllabus)
The aim of this course is to provide students with the fundamentals of diachronic linguistics. In particular, the course will deal with the following three topics:
(1) Basic knowledge of the history of comparative and historical linguistics.
(2) Learning the comparative method (reconstruction of the Indo-European phonological system) and the most important phonetic laws; analysis of some topics of the Indo-European morphophonology; comparison among genealogical, typological, and areal classification of languages.
(3) Analysis of the linguistic change, at phonetic, phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic level. Learning the reasons of linguistic change, and its spread in space and society.
(reference books)
Lehmann W.P., 1998, Manuale di linguistica storica, Bologna, il Mulino ( 2, 5-14).
Szemerényi O., 1980, Introduzione alla linguistica indeuropea, II ed., Milano, Unicopli, 21-120.
Milizia P., 2002, Le lingue indoeuropee, Roma, Carocci.
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Dates of beginning and end of teaching activities
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Delivery mode
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Traditional
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Attendance
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not mandatory
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Evaluation methods
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Written test
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Università Roma Tre