Course syllabus
Unit I:
1. Toponyms and anthroponyms, Russian and foreign, declension and peculiarities of use.
2. Realia and culturospecific words, peculiarities, translation problems and techniques.
3. Cardinal, ordinal and collective numerals: classification, spelling, declension, particularities; use of numerals with nouns and adjectives in various cases.
4. The expression of time with the main units of time and the expression of the hour.
5. Negative pronouns, adjectives and adverbs, formation and semantics; use of negative pronouns, adjectives and adverbs in personal and impersonal sentences.
6. Indefinite pronouns, adjectives and adverbs with the particles -то, -либо, -нибудь, -кое.
7. The pronouns сам, самый, чей (declined), то, что / тот, кто / те, кто, любой, кто / каждый, кто.
8. Reflexive verbs: classification and particularities of use.
Unit II:
1. Active and passive participles, present and past:
- verbal and adjectival characteristics of participles;
- formation and use of participles;
- syntactic function of participles and their declension;
- participial constructs, closed and open; transformation of participial constructs into relative subordinates and vice versa;
- formation and syntactic function of the short and long form of passive participles.
2. The Verbal Adverb (Gerund) of imperfective and perfective verbs: features, formation and use:
- verbal and adverbial characteristics of gerunds;
- formation and use of gerunds;
- syntactic function and transformation of gerund constructs.
3. Verbs of motion with and without prefix, transitive and intransitive (widening).
4. Gerunds of verbs of motion (deepening).
5. Verb Aspects (widening): derived verbs (lexical difficulties and deepening the area of verbs говорить, писать, читать).
Unit III:
1. The sentence and its elements: main and secondary constituents; homogeneous constituents; nominal predicates, the predicative complement of the subject.
2. Circumstantial complements (place, time, manner, end, cause, concession etc.): the use of cases with prepositions (widening).
3. Syntax: expressions of time and cause and the various types of subordinates.
Prerequisites for admission
Language competence level (CEFR) A2.
Teaching methods
The theoretical content of the course is taught in lectures, with practical sessions, while language skills will be developed in smaller language practice groups.
Teaching Resources
Compulsory textbooks:
Bejenari O., Legittimo F., Magnati D., Davajte! Comunicare in russo. Corso di lingua e cultura russa (Vol. 3), Hoepli, Milano 2020.
Nikitina N., Corso di Russo (seconda edizione) Livelli B1+ (con soluzioni), Hoepli, Milano 2019.
Reference books
Cevese C., Dobrovolskaja Ju., Magnanini E., Nistratova S., Grammatica Russa. Esercizi 2 (terza edizione), Hoepli, Milano 2020.
Cevese C., Dobrovolskaja Ju., Magnanini E., La grammatica russa. Morfologia ed esercizi, Hoepli, Milano 1999.
Cadorin E., Kukushkina I., Verbo e sintassi russa in pratica, Hoepli, Milano 2007.
Kuprijanova T.F., Znakom'tes': pričastie, Zlatoust, Sankt-Peterburg 20021.
Karavanov A.A., Vidy russkogo glagola: značenie i upotreblenie, Russkij jazyk, Moskva 2005.
Pul'kina I.M., Zachava-Nekrasova E.B., Grammatica Pratica con esercizi, EDEST, Genova (qualsiasi edizione)*.
*qualora non fosse reperibile la versione in italiano, recuperare quella in inglese:
-Пулькина И.М., Захава-Некрасова Е.Б., Практическая грамматика с упражнениями, Русский язык, Москва 2000.
Иванова И.С., Синтаксис. Практическое пособие по русскому языку как иностранному, Златоуст, Санкт-Петербург 2008.
Ласкарева Е.Р., Чистая грамматика, Златоуст, Санкт-Петербург 2008.
Assessment methods and Criteria
Assessment is exam-based. Written and oral exam at the end of the course on all topics covered. At the end of I term (December), students who have attended lectures and carried out the planned activities, i.e. Modulo teorico (Units I and II) and Esercitazioni di lingua russa, will be able to sit a first written examination (Parziale 1) relating to the contents of the Modulo teorico and Esercitazioni di lingua russa. At the end of the second term (May), students who have attended the lectures and carried out the planned activities, i.e. Modulo teorico (Unit III) and Esercitazioni di lingua russa, and who are in order with the first part (Parziale 1), may take the second written part (Parziale 2) relating to these contents. Should the outcome of the second part (Parziale 2) be negative, the Students will take the full final written exam in the official examination sessions scheduled in the academic calendar. Students will then proceed to the final oral examination either having obtained positive marks in both partial examinations (Parziale 1 e Parziale 2) or having passed the final written examination. At the final oral exam, students will have to demonstrate that they have acquired the theoretical and practical knowledge relating to the topics and themes dealt with during the course; the activities proposed during the course in semi-guided and autonomous mode, i.e. reading, comprehension and translation of the texts to be prepared for the final exam (the list will be provided during the course and published on ARIEL) will also be checked at that time.
Attendance at all lectures and exercises is strongly recommended.
