EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES
- Know the process of formation of the Romance languages from the common Latin matrix;
- Identify the main phonological and morphosyntactic changes that occurred in the evolution from Latin to the Romance languages;
- recognize the main genres of medieval Romance literature and identify the formal and content features that characterize them;
- analyze and comment from a philological, literary-historical, metrical, rhetorical and linguistic point of view on texts selected by the teacher;
- learn basic linguistic and philological vocabulary.
ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
The course of instruction is intended to provide students with the knowledge and methodological tools necessary to understand and analyze Romance texts, particularly medieval ones, from a linguistic and literary point of view; the student should understand the main phenomena at play in the evolution from Latin to Romance languages and how these new languages became consolidated as expressions of new literatures, articulated in new literary genres.
ADDITIONAL EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES
Autonomy of judgment:
The student will be expected to critically interpret the data and issues, both linguistic and literary, inherent in the discipline and reflect on the main themes, making independent judgments about them.
Communication Skills:
The student should be able to communicate to an audience of specialists and non-specialists with propriety of language, information and issues related to the field of medieval Romance linguistics, literature and philology.
Learning skills:
The student is expected to acquire the fundamentals of the discipline so that he or she can independently undertake further linguistic, literary and philological studies in related fields as well as at higher levels of study.
Notions of general linguistics; a basic knowledge of Latin is helpful but not essential.
Frontal teaching: The first 24 hours will be devoted to the analysis of major Romance linguistic phenomena; the second 24 hours will be devoted to the reading and philological-literary commentary of medieval Romance texts.
L’esame consisterà in una prova orale sugli argomenti trattati tesa ad accertare le capacità di esporre criticamente le conoscenze acquisite.
Lingua in cui si svolge l’esame: italiano.
Criteri di valutazione: gli elementi su cui si basa la valutazione sono la coerenza dell’argomentazione, la completezza d’informazione, l’uso corretto della terminologia, la capacità di applicare in maniera originale concetti e procedure di analisi.
Attending students:
1) A. Varvaro, Linguistica romanza, Napoli, Liguori
2) A. Varvaro, Letterature romanze del Medioevo, Bologna, il Mulino
3) Appunti delle lezioni e testi letterari selezionati dal docente
Non-attending students will have to study instead:
1) A. Varvaro, Linguistica romanza, Napoli, Liguori
2) A. Varvaro, Letterature romanze del Medioevo, Bologna, il Mulino
3) M. Barbato, Le lingue romanze. Profilo storico-comparativo, Roma/Bari, Laterza, 2017
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