Archaeological Sciences

The course aims at providing an overview of the main partitions and topics pertaining to the field of General and Historical Linguistics, as well as some highlights of the most important stages of the history of Linguistics. The first part of the course will address some basic notions of Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology some general conceptions related to the Saussurean thought (such concepts as sign, arbitrariness, system, structure, langue and parole, synchrony and diachrony etc.), as well as the relationship between language and writing. Some key milestones in the history of linguistics will also be described. The second part of the course will survey the main types of linguistic change, both phonological and morphosyntactic, and the rudiments of the Comparative-reconstructive method will also be described. Finally, some lessons will be dedicated to phenomena of linguistic contact.

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1) Claudia A. Ciancaglini – Artemij Keidan, Linguistica generale e storica. Per studenti di lingue orientali e classiche, Milano, Mondadori Università, 2018; in particolar: 1a) first volume Chapt. 1, 2, 3 (with the exception of § 3.5), 4 (with the exception of §§ 4.3, 4.4), 5, 6 (with the exception of §§ 6.2.6, 6.3.4; 6.4.3); 1b) second volume Chapt. 7, 8, 10 (with the exception of § 10.4), 11 2) Maurice Leroy, Profilo storico della linguistica moderna, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2011

Attendance at the course is not mandatory, but recommended.

The exam is oral. It consists in answering questions that deal with all the main topics covered during the course

F. de Saussure, Corso di linguistica generale, a cura di T. De Mauro, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1967 N. Trubeckoj, Fondamenti di fonologia, a cura di G. Mazzuoli Porru, Torino, Einaudi, 1971 Roger Lass, Historical Linguistics and Language Change, Cambridge, Cambrige Univ. Press, 1997 M. Mancini (a cura di), Il cambiamento linguistico, Roma, Carocci, 2011 R.L. Trask, Historical Linguistics, London - New York - Sidney, Arnold, 1996

The course will take place in the traditional way, with lessons in the classroom

The course aims at providing an overview of the main partitions and topics pertaining to the field of General and Historical Linguistics, as well as some highlights of the most important stages of the history of Linguistics. The first part of the course will address some basic notions of Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology some general conceptions related to the Saussurean thought (such concepts as sign, arbitrariness, system, structure, langue and parole, synchrony and diachrony etc.), as well as the relationship between language and writing. Some key milestones in the history of linguistics will also be described. The second part of the course will survey the main types of linguistic change, both phonological and morphosyntactic, and the rudiments of the Comparative-reconstructive method will also be described. Finally, some lessons will be dedicated to phenomena of linguistic contact.

None

1) Claudia A. Ciancaglini – Artemij Keidan, Linguistica generale e storica. Per studenti di lingue orientali e classiche, Milano, Mondadori Università, 2018; in particolar: 1a) first volume Chapt. 1, 2, 3 (with the exception of § 3.5), 4 (with the exception of §§ 4.3, 4.4), 5, 6 (with the exception of §§ 6.2.6, 6.3.4; 6.4.3); 1b) second volume Chapt. 7, 8, 10 (with the exception of § 10.4), 11 2) Maurice Leroy, Profilo storico della linguistica moderna, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2011

Attendance at the course is not mandatory, but recommended.

The exam is oral. It consists in answering questions that deal with all the main topics covered during the course

F. de Saussure, Corso di linguistica generale, a cura di T. De Mauro, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1967 N. Trubeckoj, Fondamenti di fonologia, a cura di G. Mazzuoli Porru, Torino, Einaudi, 1971 Roger Lass, Historical Linguistics and Language Change, Cambridge, Cambrige Univ. Press, 1997 M. Mancini (a cura di), Il cambiamento linguistico, Roma, Carocci, 2011 R.L. Trask, Historical Linguistics, London - New York - Sidney, Arnold, 1996

The course will take place in the traditional way, with lessons in the classroom