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B004863 - ROMANCE PHILOLOGY
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Academic Year 2018-19
Coorte 2017 - 3-years First Cycle Degree (DM 270/04) in LANGUAGES, LITERATURES AND INTERCULTURAL STUDIES
Course year
Second year - First Semester
Belonging Department
Languages, Literatures and Intercultural Studies
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
L-FIL-LET/09 - ROMANCE PHILOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
36
Teaching Term
13/09/2018 ⇒ 16/12/2018
Attendance required
Yes
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
The seminar shows the evolution of the Romance languages from Vulgar Latin and the birth of Romance literature. We will also read and commented on some occitan texts.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
Charmaine Lee, Linguistica romanza, Roma Carocci, 2000 (ristampe fino al 2013) or Pietro G. Beltrami, La filologia romanza, Bologna, il Muilino, 2017. L. Lazzerini, Letteratura medievale in lingua d’oc, Modena, Mucchi, 2010 seconda edizione (solo le parti indicate dalla docente). Extra material will be provided during the lessons.
Learning Objectives
To familiarize the student with the principles of the Romance Philology and ancient texts
Prerequisites
Competence in one of the Modern romance languages
Teaching Methods
Lectures
Type of Assessment
Written and oral tests
Course program
The students, who attend the course, will accompany the lectures with a bibliography of reference. Extra material will be provided during the lessons. In the first part of the course the student will be acquainted with the fundamentals of Romance philology: in particular, we will deal with both the linguistic features (phonological, morphological, syntactic and lexical) of the Romance family, following the principles of comparative linguistics, and the main aspects concerning the history, culture and literature of the medieval Romània.