Archaeology

FLAVIA POMPEO
FLAVIA POMPEO

In consistency with the educational purposes of the whole teaching course, aim of the teaching unit is to give students knowledge and comprehension skills in the field of
ADVANCED GLOTTOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS, that complete and/or reinforce those acquired in the first grade of studies. Moreover, it will make the students able to approach orginal themes in a research context, making more complex judgments, communicating knowledge and its process, and studying the subject in an independent and self-educational way.

Students will be able to demonstrate having acquired a theoretical, and methodological knowledge of advanced level on the linguistic subjects presented and discussed during the course, with the support of textbooks and/or bibliographic resources of advanced scientific level also in languages other than Italian.
Students will be able to apply autonomously and critically the acquired knowledge to the linguistic phenomena outlined during the course; they will possess adequate skills to describe and analyze texts, processes and linguistic structures, and to support arguments and answer to scientific questions, even of relatively complex scope, and in relation to the specific linguistic areas investigated by adopting original points of view and producing innovative results.
Students will be able to express autonomously critical opinions even on complex linguistic topics; they will be able to independently identify the most appropriate tools for description and analysis of phenomena relating to the written and oral linguistic data investigated.
Students will be able to clearly present hypotheses and linguistic facts, even of complex nature, concerning the linguistic areas outlined in the course, discussing and effectively arguing the conclusions presented both at a theoretical, methodological and applied level.
Students will acquire the necessary skills to continue their linguistic studies independently, being capable of managing recent international scientific bibliography and having the ability to identify and use state of the art linguistic analysis tools and applied resources.

Students must have already taken an exam in General Linguistics.

This course provides an introduction to semantic principles and theories, and lexicon structure. Major theoretical approaches and various methods of analysis of meaning will be presented in order to elucidate how meaning in human language is best described (36 hours). The theoretical topics covered will include different approaches to meaning; types of meaning; semantic relations between words; lexical fields; compositionality; categorization; metaphor; lexical composition and word classification.
The second part of the course (6 hours) focuses on the in-depth analysis of selected semantic phenomena regarding both ancient and modern Indo-European languages.

For both attending and non attending students (a + b):
a) Casadei, F. (2003), Lessico e semantica, Roma, Carocci;
b) essays available since the end of February 2025 on Classroom.

36 lesson hours and 6 hours of exercises in classroom. II semester.

Students, both attending and non attending, can choose between two assessment methods ('a' or 'b'):
a) apply for two (optional) written tests: (1) a mid-term test and (2) one test at the end of the course. In both cases, written tests will consist of 32 questions with multiple choice answers (each test lasts around 30 minutes);
b) apply for an oral exam in the scheduled appeals.
Both kinds of exam concern the whole program of the course and are structured in such a way as to verify what follows: if the student have understood the topics covered during the course, demonstrate to possess basic knowledge (as far as both the content and the specific linguistic expression are concerned), are able to apply abilities of analysis and reflection concerning the main areas of linguistics, as well as the suitable techniques and methods to the field.

• Lessons 1-4.Introduction to the course. Introduction to Semantics. Types of meaning. Semantic relationships. Exercises.
  • Books: From the handbook: Chapters 1, 2 and 3 (the initial part). From the essays: Casadei (selected sections).


• Lessons 5-8.Semantic Relationships (the remaining part). Componential Analysis. The semantics of prototypes. Exercises.
  • Books: From the handbook: Chapters 3 (the remaining part) and 4 and 5. From the essays: Casadei (selected sections).


• Lessons 9-12.The semantics of prototypes (the remaining part). The composition of the lexicon. Exercises. Mid-term test.
  • Books: From the handbook: Chapters 5 (the remaining part) and 6. From the essays: Casadei (selected sections).


• Lessons 13-16.Semantic and lexical change. Exercises.
  • Books: From the essays: Lazzeroni, Magni, Baglioni.


• Lessons 17-20.Polysemy. Academic papers for further readings to be agreed upon with the students.
  • Books: Essays.


• Final exam: second half of the program.