Course teached as: B005331 - LINGUISTICA GENERALE Second Cycle Degree in EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES Curriculum STUDI DI LINGUISTICA
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
Models in the phonological analysis: theoretical and descriptive aspects. Metaphony in Italian varieties and harmonies in Italian and Bantu varieties. Morpho-syntactic analysis within the generative framework: description and analysis of some phenomena
Some chapters of
L.M. Savoia, Introduzione alla fonetica e alla fonologia, Zanichelli, Bologna, 2014.
L.M. Savoia, I dialetti italiani. Sistemi e processi fonologici nelle varietà italiane e romance, Pacini, Pisa, 2014.
The student will choice two articles on phonology
- Leonardo, M. Savoia; Benedetta, Baldi (2016). Propagation and preservation of rounded back vowels in Lucanian and Apulian varieties. QUADERNI DI LINGUISTICA E STUDI ORIENTALI, vol. 2, pp. 11-58,
- Calabrese A. 1998, Metaphony Revisited, in Rivista di Linguistica 10: 7-68 (le parti svolte a lezione)
- J. Kaye, 1990, Government in Phonology. The case of Moroccan Arabic, in The Linguistic review 6.
-Walker R. 2001, Positional Markedness in Vowel Harmony, in C. Féry et al (eds.), Proceedngs of HILP, v. 5, inguistics in Potsdam, 12, University of Potsdam: 212-232. (le parti svolte a lezione)
and two articles on morphosyntax
- F. Ferrari-Bridgers 2008, A unified syntactic analysis of Italian and Luganda nouns, in The Bantu-Romance connection : A comparative investigation of verbal agreement, DPs, and information structure / edited by Cécile De Cat and Katherine Demuth, John Benjamins Publishing Company
- R. Kramer 2014, Gender in Amharic, in Language Sciences 43. 102-115
- Halle M. & A. Marantz 1993. Distributed morphology and the pieces of inflection. In K. Hale and S. J. Keyser (eds.) The view from Building 20, Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press: 111-176.
- Halle, Morris & Bert Vaux. 1997. Theoretical aspects of Indo-European nominal morphology: The nominal declension of Latin and Armenian. Mir Curad. A Festschrift in honor of Calvert Watkins, eds. Jay Jasanoff, Craig Melchert & Lise Olivier, Universität Innsbruck.
- Leonardo, M. Savoia; Benedetta, Baldi (2016). Proprietà morfo-sintattiche dei suffissi valutativi in italiano. In: Benedetta Baldi, Leonardo M. Savoia. LA LINGUA E I PARLANTI STUDI E RICERCHE DI LINGUISTICA, pp. 95-113, Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso
- Manzini, Maria Rita; Leonardo, M. Savoia (2017). Gender, number and inflectional class in Romance: Feminine/plural -a. In: Joseph Emonds e Markéta Janebova. Language Use and Linguistic Structure, pp. 263-282, Olomouc: Palacky University Olomouc
- Manzini, Maria RIta; Leonardo, M. Savoia (2017). N morphology and its interpretation: The neuter in Italian and Albanian varieties.. In: Anna Bloch-Rozmej, Anna Bondaruk. Constraints on Structure and Derivation in Syntax, Phonology and Morphology, pp. 213-236, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang,
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Learning Objectives
Knowledge objectives: The course aims to provide the sudents with the concepts and the methodological tools for an in-depth analysis of the phonological and morphosyntactic phenomena and to make the students able to apply them to linguistic phenomena in an autonomous and convincing way and in relation to an overall theoretical view of the language.
Behaviour objectives: The course points to stimulate the students - to use
consciuously and actively the University structure on thre whole and the tools necessary for orienting and managing the student career strumenti
di orientamento e di gestione della carriera studentesca - to contribute to a correct and enriching relation between the teacher and the student -
towards a civil and shared use of the study resources of the CdS and the School
Prerequisites
12 cfu in General Linguistics
Teaching Methods
lectures and seminars. The
Further information
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Type of Assessment
The exam is oral. The questions concern the different topics dealt with during the lessons: models of phonological analysis; phonological features and rules iin the generative framework; the representations; the autosegmental model; syllabic and prosodic organization; Government Phonology and the elements; discussion of the phenomena examined in the classroom. As to the part concerning morphosyntax, the exam will touch the following points: the treatment of the inflection; root, inflection and derivational morphemes; gender, number and nominal classes; gender and number; mass nouns; the case; the internal structure of the noun; discussion of some of the phenomena examined in the classroom. The exam intends to verify yhe knowledges that the students have acquired in the different fields object of the lessons and their capacity of using these notions in order to face problems and issues concerning the phonologica/ morpho-syntactic analysis applied to concrete cases.
Course program
The course, of 72 hours, includes two parts: the phonological analysis, specifically applied to metaphony and other distance vowel assimilatory phenomena, such as harmonies, and the morpho-syntactic analysis applied to the internal structure of the noun, with a particular attention to the relation between gender inflection, number and other nominal properties, like the case. The examples and the crosslinguistic comparison will take also the knowledges and the descriptive interests of the students of the course of Lingue e civiltà dell'Oriente antico e moderno into account.
The course provides the presentation of the theoretical and descriptive aspects of the generative phonology, with the main conceptual questions, such as the features theory, the rules and the representations, prosodic and syllabic structures, the autosegmental representation, the government and element theory, the notions of licensing and empty nucleus. Metaphony and propagation in Italian varieties and harmonies, in Turkish and in Bantu, and other types of harmony in Italian varieties will be the object of descriptive applications. Morphological analysis will be presented within the generative model. The internal structure of the noun will be invetigated assuming that syntax is projected from the lexical elements. The relation between gender inflection e number in Romance varieties, and between mass content and gender in some languages will be examined; the gender inflection will be compared with the classifiers (bantu, cinese) and a unified formalization will be proposed in the terms of the literature. The case will be briefly discussed in relation with the inflection of the noun. These different points will be tested by applying them to concrete phenomena and on the base of the literature presented in the classroom.