Università Roma Tre

(1A) Knowledge of the basic concepts of linguistics, such as, for example, phoneme, morpheme, syntagm, lexeme. Understanding of the distinctions among the various levels of linguistic analysis. Development of the ability to use in a simple but correct and rigorous way the methodologies of linguistics, such as commutation tests and tree diagrams.

(1B) “Syntax and Languages of the World”:
Acquisition of the competences necessary for syntactic analysis and the capacity of applying these competences to the comparison of diverse languages. Knowledge of the different classifications imposed on the languages of the world and development of a critical reflection on cross-linguistic phenomena at different levels of analysis. Basic awareness of the ‘interface’ notion and of the systematic relation existing between syntactic, prosodic and discourse-semantic phenomena in human languages.