Teacher
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PIUNNO VALENTINA
(syllabus)
The following topics will be covered during the course: -) English as a "global language"; -) morphology (derivational morphemes and inflectional morphemes, main mechanisms of word formation in English); -) lexicon (English word classes and their properties, idioms and phrasal verbs); -) semantics (meaning relationships and types of meaning); -) syntax (types of syntagms, types of syntactic functions, English-focussing phrasal structures); -) basic notions of text linguistics.
(reference books)
PROGRAMMA A.A. 2019/2020 (relativo all'insegnamento che si terrà nel II semestre)
Testi obbligatori
1) Lesley Jeffries, Discovering language. The Structure of Modern English, London, Palgrave MacMillan, 2006 (tutto il volume, esclusi i capitoli 1-2).
*2) Charles F. Meyer, Introducing English Linguistics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009 (esclusivamente parti scelte dal capitolo 2 “The development of English”).
*3) Howard Jackson, Etienne Zé Amvela, Words, Meaning and Vocabulary. An Introduction to Modern English Lexicology, 2nd Edition, London, Continuum International, 2007 (esclusivamente parti scelte dal capitolo 4).
*I testi 2 e 3 saranno disponibili presso la copisteria di fronte alla Scuola Lettere Filosofia Lingue.
Testi consigliati: • Laura Pinnavaia, Introduzione alla linguistica inglese, Roma, Carocci, 2009 o edizioni successive.
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