Università Roma Tre

The course aims to describe the phenomena that characterized the transition from vulgar Latin to Italian in the areas of phonology, morphology, syntax and vocabulary, in such a way as to allow students to achieve a good command of the concepts and analysis tools offered by historical grammar. The analysis of the birth and the evolution of the vernacular will be accompanied by a historical, cultural and social contextualization. According to an external linguistic perspective, the salient moments of the history of Italian from the Origins to the contemporary age will be addressed, with particular attention to the progressive imposition of supra-local varieties and a common Italian. The second part of the course will be devoted to text linguistics: students will acquire the skills and tools necessary to analyze texts belonging to different epochs and different text genres.

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