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Study Plan
This information is intended exclusively for students already enrolled in this course.If you are a new student interested in enrolling, you can find information about the course of study on the course page:
Laurea magistrale in Linguistics - Enrollment from 2025/2026The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.
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Legend | Type of training activity (TTA)
TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.
Historical Linguistics (2019/2020)
Teaching code
4S004060
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
6
Language
English
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
L-LIN/01 - HISTORICAL AND GENERAL LINGUISTICS
Period
Sem 2A dal Feb 17, 2020 al Mar 28, 2020.
Learning outcomes
The teaching deals with the change, the contact and the variation of language and languages. It offers a key to approaches and understanding the human language in a diachronic perspective, fundamental to complete the skills of the student in linguistics, his preparation for further levels of study, and his abilities and training at the job's world, more and more characterized by meetings of languages and cultures in communication and rapid changes.
Expected Results:
- High knowledge of the facts and factors of language change and contact, and linguistic variation.
- Recognize the aspects and phenomena of linguistic change and describe them in the correct way.
- Critically consider the theories and methods of historical linguistics.
- Present the results of the study adequately.
- autonomously re-elaborate and re-use the skills acquired for further study and / or professional career.
Program
The course aims to give the student the ability of a critical use of the concepts and fundamental methods of historical linguistics.
In particular, it will illustrate some aspect of the development and strategies of subordination related to the different type of subordinated clauses in the ancient and modern Indo-European languages.
The main types of subordinate clauses will be introduced and commented in their development.
It will focus on the argumental and relatives clauses.
This class therefore offers a method for the understanding of the complexity of language change of some syntactic structures, a fundamental knowledge to the completeness of the MD in Linguistics.
(1) Lectures dedicated to the subjects of the course, encouraging active participation of the students with questions and discussions.
(2) Papers to be prepared and read during class based on essays that will be selected by the students according to individual interests.
(3) Non-attending students. Non-attending students are encouraged to contact as soon as possible the respective coordinator to help arranging a program which is as consistent as possible with the objectives and ambitions of attending students. The coordinator will also provide the reading and offer help in understanding of the material during the preparation.
At the end of the course the student must be able to:
• recognize the strategies of subordination in the Indo-European languages and describe their change properly;
• illustrate the fundamentals of the study of linguistic change and the theories that describe the factors and the possible causes in relation to the strategies of change in the subordination of the ancient and modern languages.
Examination Methods
Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, and in accordance with the University of Verona guidelines, during the 2020 summer session the assessment modality will be modified as follows: online oral exam.
For all students (attending or not attending) the assessment of learning outcomes provides:
• The exposition of an in-depth paper on a topic of the class;
• The final oral exam on all subjects, including the papers presented by the colleagues.
Students will have lessons and papers on the e-learning platform.
OBJECTIVES OF THE PROOF
• check the status of the acquired knowledge of the topics of the course;
• verify the ability to re-elaborate and deepen.
EXAMS
The exam covers all the topics of the program including the papers of the colleagues.
RATING
The evaluation is expressed in thirtieths, based on the knowledge, the effectiveness and readiness of the answers, the language property.
For Erasmus students, the coordinator is available to clarify the how to prepare the exam.
