Programme

Course program
Grammar of the Palaeolithic language exemplified by the analysis of selected passages from anti-Slavic works:
- phonetics;
- morphology - the nominal system;
- morphology - the verbal system;
- the morpho-syntactic peculiarities of the ancient Slavic and some problems of translation.

Core Documentation

Skomorochova-Venturini L., Corso di lingua paleoslava. Grammatica, ed. ETS, Pisa 2000 (starting from the second part) or Marcialis N., Introduzione alla grammatica paleoslava, Firenze University Press, 2005 (Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici 1; stampa a richiesta disponibile su http://epress.unifi.it), from p. 77 on.The texts in paleoslavic will be provided in photocopies during the course.

Type of delivery of the course

The course will take place mainly in frontal teaching mode, with the active participation of students in text analysis exercises.

Attendance

The course requires regular attendance. Lessons include the analysis of ancient Slavic texts, not available in manual form.

Type of evaluation

oral test aimed at ascertaining the acquisition of knowledge, skills and abilities provided by the course.