Università Roma Tre

Outlines of linguistic history of German-speaking countries
(6 ECTS)

The course outlines the polycentric history of the German language from its origins to the present day, contextualizing it in the main cultural transformations in the broadest sense and focusing both on the fundamental importance of literature in shaping a unified German in the 18th century, and on political-social phenomena such as Nazism or the disappearance of the GDR in reunification.

An in-depth module will follow in the second semester (6 ECTS)

For the Outlines of linguistic history of German-speaking countries (prof. Sampaolo)
- Marina Foschi Albert / Marianne Hepp, Manuale di storia della lingua tedesca, Liguori (in commercio anche come pdf)
Or
- Sandra Bosco Coletsos, Storia della lingua tedesca, Rosenberg & Sellier

Furthermore:
- Donatella Mazza: La linguistica tedesca. Storia e testi. Carocci (only the introductions to each text)

The course aims at providing tools for the analysis of the different types of sentences in German. Starting from the analysis of the various constituents (nominal, verbal, adjectival, prepositional, adverbial phrase), particular importance will be given to the notion of the Satzfeld as a tool for understanding the syntactic strategies in the construction of the sentence and their different semantic profiles. Lectures will take place in constant comparison with small texts that students will be asked to analyze. The program is identical for attending and non-attending students; however, attendance is strongly recommended in order to learn the methods and tools to explain the syntactic position of the elements which constitute main and secondary sentences (explicit and implicit) in German.

- Hardarik Blühdorn Marina Foschi Albert, Leggere e comprendere il tedesco. Manuale per studenti e docenti in formazione, Pisa University Press, Pisa 2014 (per intero).

Giuliana Scotto, “La rechte Satzklammer dell’Hauptsatz tedesco e la posizione gerarchica fra i sintagmi in base al legame intercorrente col verbo. Uno strumento didattico per i discenti di madrelingua italiana”, in G. Scotto, Saggi di estetica, di diritto,di linguistica, Grin, München 2015, pp. 171-212.


Additional materials will be provided during the lectures.