The course aims to provide the students with an introduction to the levels of analysis into which language is articulated. It will present to students the basic notions of morphology, lexicon, semantics and pragmatics as independent levels of analysis but interrelated. Basic notions of syntax will be introduced to allow students to understand the notions related to the processing of sentences and lexical items. At the end of the course students will be able to understand and analyze words, sentences and utterances on the basis of the acquisition of the theoretical concepts.
teacher profile teaching materials
Part will deal with the following topics:
- basic notions of morphology (derivational and inflectional morphemes, main processes of word formation);
- basic notions on the structure and the semantics of the lexicon (word classes and their main properties, word formats and collocations, word meaning, types of meaning and meaning relations among words, componential analysis);
- text analysis (cohesion, types of connectives, relations among clauses);
Part II will deal with the following topics:
- basic notions of syntax (types of phrases, grammatical functions and the valence of the verb);
- basic notions of sentence semantics and of pragmatics (definition of, and distinction between, semantics and pragmatics, linguistic and situational context, information structure, linguistics acts, presuppositions and implicatures).
1) Gaetano Berruto e Massimo Cerruti, La linguistica. Un corso introduttivo, UTET (only chapter 3).
2) Federica Casadei, Lessico e semantica, Carocci (chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 6).
3) Raffaele Simone, Nuovi fondamenti di Linguistica, McGraw-Hill (from chapter 12 to 13).
Part II:
4) Mereu Lunella, La sintassi delle lingue del mondo, Laterza (only chapter 2 (from paragraph 1 to 5d) and chapter 3 (only paragraph 5)).
5) Mereu Lunella, La semantica della frase, Carocci (with the exclusion of chapter 6).
6) Andorno Cecilia, Che cos’è la pragmatica, Carocci editore (chapters 1-6).
Programme
The course will be divided into two parts.Part will deal with the following topics:
- basic notions of morphology (derivational and inflectional morphemes, main processes of word formation);
- basic notions on the structure and the semantics of the lexicon (word classes and their main properties, word formats and collocations, word meaning, types of meaning and meaning relations among words, componential analysis);
- text analysis (cohesion, types of connectives, relations among clauses);
Part II will deal with the following topics:
- basic notions of syntax (types of phrases, grammatical functions and the valence of the verb);
- basic notions of sentence semantics and of pragmatics (definition of, and distinction between, semantics and pragmatics, linguistic and situational context, information structure, linguistics acts, presuppositions and implicatures).
Core Documentation
Part I:1) Gaetano Berruto e Massimo Cerruti, La linguistica. Un corso introduttivo, UTET (only chapter 3).
2) Federica Casadei, Lessico e semantica, Carocci (chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 6).
3) Raffaele Simone, Nuovi fondamenti di Linguistica, McGraw-Hill (from chapter 12 to 13).
Part II:
4) Mereu Lunella, La sintassi delle lingue del mondo, Laterza (only chapter 2 (from paragraph 1 to 5d) and chapter 3 (only paragraph 5)).
5) Mereu Lunella, La semantica della frase, Carocci (with the exclusion of chapter 6).
6) Andorno Cecilia, Che cos’è la pragmatica, Carocci editore (chapters 1-6).
Type of delivery of the course
Frontal lessonsType of evaluation
Written exam, with open-ended questions and exercises. teacher profile teaching materials
Part will deal with the following topics:
- basic notions of morphology (derivational and inflectional morphemes, main processes of word formation);
- basic notions on the structure and the semantics of the lexicon (word classes and their main properties, word formats and collocations, word meaning, types of meaning and meaning relations among words, componential analysis);
- text analysis (cohesion, types of connectives, relations among clauses);
Part II will deal with the following topics:
- basic notions of syntax (types of phrases, grammatical functions and the valence of the verb);
- basic notions of sentence semantics and of pragmatics (definition of, and distinction between, semantics and pragmatics, linguistic and situational context, information structure, linguistics acts, presuppositions and implicatures).
1) Gaetano Berruto e Massimo Cerruti, La linguistica. Un corso introduttivo, UTET (only chapter 3).
2) Federica Casadei, Lessico e semantica, Carocci (chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 6).
3) Raffaele Simone, Nuovi fondamenti di Linguistica, McGraw-Hill (from chapter 12 to 13).
Part II:
4) Mereu Lunella, La sintassi delle lingue del mondo, Laterza (only chapter 2 (from paragraph 1 to 5d) and chapter 3 (only paragraph 5)).
5) Mereu Lunella, La semantica della frase, Carocci (with the exclusion of chapter 6).
6) Andorno Cecilia, Che cos’è la pragmatica, Carocci editore (chapters 1-6).
Programme
The course will be divided into two parts.Part will deal with the following topics:
- basic notions of morphology (derivational and inflectional morphemes, main processes of word formation);
- basic notions on the structure and the semantics of the lexicon (word classes and their main properties, word formats and collocations, word meaning, types of meaning and meaning relations among words, componential analysis);
- text analysis (cohesion, types of connectives, relations among clauses);
Part II will deal with the following topics:
- basic notions of syntax (types of phrases, grammatical functions and the valence of the verb);
- basic notions of sentence semantics and of pragmatics (definition of, and distinction between, semantics and pragmatics, linguistic and situational context, information structure, linguistics acts, presuppositions and implicatures).
Core Documentation
Part I:1) Gaetano Berruto e Massimo Cerruti, La linguistica. Un corso introduttivo, UTET (only chapter 3).
2) Federica Casadei, Lessico e semantica, Carocci (chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 6).
3) Raffaele Simone, Nuovi fondamenti di Linguistica, McGraw-Hill (from chapter 12 to 13).
Part II:
4) Mereu Lunella, La sintassi delle lingue del mondo, Laterza (only chapter 2 (from paragraph 1 to 5d) and chapter 3 (only paragraph 5)).
5) Mereu Lunella, La semantica della frase, Carocci (with the exclusion of chapter 6).
6) Andorno Cecilia, Che cos’è la pragmatica, Carocci editore (chapters 1-6).
Type of delivery of the course
Frontal lessonsType of evaluation
The exams will be written, and will include exercises and open questions.