HISTORY OF LATIN LANGUAGE

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2016/2017

Type of Course:

Characterising

Optional/Mandatory:

Optional

Degree:

Master's Degree Programme in ARCHAEOLOGY

Disciplinary Sector:

LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Language:

Italian

Credits:

Programme Year:

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

A good knowledge of the Latin language, of the history of Latin literature, of the latin metrics.

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HISTORY OF LATIN LANGUAGE

ARCHAEOLOGY

AF code:

40001374

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

Oral exam. Particularly, the comprehension of structures and main mechanisms of transformation of the Latin language will be assessed, and also the ability to grasp the basic features of the language in relation both to the literary genres (diachronic level), and to various layers (synchronic level), and the ability of the student to understand the texts in the original language.

Teaching period

First semester

Objectives

The course aims to raise awareness of the Latin language from the school level, purely descriptive and normative, to an historical-evolutionary view of the language, and aims also to build philological and stylistic competencies.

Contents

General explanation of the history of Latin language. Archaic and vulgar latin.

Recommended Bibliography

I. Mazzini, Storia della lingua latina e del suo contesto, vol. I, Linguistica e lingua letteraria, Salerno editrice, Roma 2007 (sections specifically dedicated to the "Language" are required: for each chapter are also required the fourth and the fifth paragraphs).
Latin text:
Plautus, Poenulus (the edition will be provided at the beginning of the course)

Additional references will be provided at the beginning of the course, along with further material useful for attending lessons.
Students that are not able to attend classes are asked to contact the professor in order to agree an integrative learning program.

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

Classroom and interactive lectures; workshop activities on the text studied.

Contacts/More Information

Contacts:
email: bruzzone@uniss.it; antonellabruzzone@hotmail.com
telefono studio: 079-229623; cellulare: 338-2519709
studio: piazza Conte di Moriana n. 8, I piano

Reception hours:
In the hour following the lesson; additional reception hours will be announced weekly on the website.

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