History of Italian Language
A.Y. 2024/2025
Learning objectives
The course aims to provide students with a basic preparation around moments and problems of Italian linguistic history through the analysis of texts from the origins to the contemporary age, inserting them in the historical and cultural context in which they were produced.
Expected learning outcomes
Knowledge: At the end of teaching the student will have acquired the information and skills needed for evaluating in a critical, methodologically correct and culturally contextualized way the texts with which he/she will be put in contact. The student will also possess a good master of the main facts in the evolution of grammatical structures.
Skills: The overall goal is to enhance a broad-spectrum ability to understand the means of documents of the centuries-old italian tradition and to discuss them in a critical fashion.
Skills: The overall goal is to enhance a broad-spectrum ability to understand the means of documents of the centuries-old italian tradition and to discuss them in a critical fashion.
Lesson period: Second semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course can be attended as a single course.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Course syllabus
The course plan includes the presentation and discussion of moments and problems of Italian linguistic history. These are addressed by means of an analysis of texts from the origins to the contemporary age setting them in the historical and cultural context they belong to. In particular, in part A the main developments of Italian up to the fourteenth century and the related texts will be presented and commented on; in part B the ages of Humanism and Renaissance will be addressed through the most significant problems and works; part C will focus on the study of evolution from literary Italian to Italian as a national common language, from political Unification to republican institutions. Aspects leading to the birth of regional varieties, "standard" Italian and digital Italian, such as the coexistence with dialects, economic expansion, internal migration, technological progress and the phenomenon of immigration will be looked into. As a documentary basis, texts, generally prose, mainly literary, but also of a non-literary nature, will be presented and examined.
International or Erasmus incoming students are kindly requested to contact the teacher of the course. Also students with disabilities should contact the teacher of the course, in order to discuss alternative examination methods, in agreement with the competent Office.
International or Erasmus incoming students are kindly requested to contact the teacher of the course. Also students with disabilities should contact the teacher of the course, in order to discuss alternative examination methods, in agreement with the competent Office.
Prerequisites for admission
There are no entry requirements; for more fruitful attendance, it is useful to already have basic information regarding the structure of Italian (phonetics, morphology, syntax) and a basic knowledge (essentially: of morphology) of Latin.
Teaching methods
Teaching consists of face-to-face lectures that include the analysis of forms, structures, sentences and texts; the teacher may propose that students work on short papers on agreed topics, which generally require linguistic analysis of texts and which in any case require reflection on language and its uses. Attendance at classes is strongly recommended.
Support materials, in the form of presentations and texts in pdf format, are made available through the Ariel platform and, if it is deemed useful, through Wooclap .
Support materials, in the form of presentations and texts in pdf format, are made available through the Ariel platform and, if it is deemed useful, through Wooclap .
Teaching Resources
Attending students:
- Part A =
Rita Librandi, Profilo storico della lingua italiana, Roma, Carocci, 2023.
G. Patota, Nuovi lineamenti di grammatica storica dell'italiano, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007.
- Part B =
C. Marazzini, Breve storia della questione della lingua, Roma, Carocci, 2018.
G. Patota, La quarta corona. Pietro Bembo e la codificazione dell'italiano scritto, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2017.
- Part C =
L. Pizzoli, La politica linguistica in Italia, Roma, Carocci, 2018;
E. Testa, L'italiano nascosto: Una storia linguistica e culturale, Torino, Einaudi, 2018.
Non attending students:
- Part A =
Rita Librandi, Profilo storico della lingua italiana, Roma, Carocci, 2023.
G. Patota, Nuovi lineamenti di grammatica storica dell'italiano, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007.
G. Lauta, Esercizi di grammatica storica italiana, Roma, Carocci, 2024
- Part B =
C. Marazzini, Breve storia della questione della lingua, Roma, Carocci, 2018.
G. Patota, La quarta corona. Pietro Bembo e la codificazione dell'italiano scritto, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2017.
- Part C =
L. Pizzoli, La politica linguistica in Italia, Roma, Carocci, 2018;
E. Testa, L'italiano nascosto: Una storia linguistica e culturale, Torino, Einaudi, 2018.
M. Prada, L'italiano in rete. Usi e generi della comunicazione mediata tecnicamente, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2015
- Part A =
Rita Librandi, Profilo storico della lingua italiana, Roma, Carocci, 2023.
G. Patota, Nuovi lineamenti di grammatica storica dell'italiano, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007.
- Part B =
C. Marazzini, Breve storia della questione della lingua, Roma, Carocci, 2018.
G. Patota, La quarta corona. Pietro Bembo e la codificazione dell'italiano scritto, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2017.
- Part C =
L. Pizzoli, La politica linguistica in Italia, Roma, Carocci, 2018;
E. Testa, L'italiano nascosto: Una storia linguistica e culturale, Torino, Einaudi, 2018.
Non attending students:
- Part A =
Rita Librandi, Profilo storico della lingua italiana, Roma, Carocci, 2023.
G. Patota, Nuovi lineamenti di grammatica storica dell'italiano, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007.
G. Lauta, Esercizi di grammatica storica italiana, Roma, Carocci, 2024
- Part B =
C. Marazzini, Breve storia della questione della lingua, Roma, Carocci, 2018.
G. Patota, La quarta corona. Pietro Bembo e la codificazione dell'italiano scritto, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2017.
- Part C =
L. Pizzoli, La politica linguistica in Italia, Roma, Carocci, 2018;
E. Testa, L'italiano nascosto: Una storia linguistica e culturale, Torino, Einaudi, 2018.
M. Prada, L'italiano in rete. Usi e generi della comunicazione mediata tecnicamente, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2015
Assessment methods and Criteria
The achievement of the learning objectives is ascertained with an oral test. In addition to the correctness of the contents, their relevance, the possession of the disciplinary lexicon and the ability to grasp linguistically salient phenomena within relevant texts of different ages are positively evaluated.
Papers produced during the year cooperate in determining the evaluation.
Marks are out of 30.
International or Erasmus incoming students are kindly requested to contact the teacher of the course. Students with disabilities and/or SLD should contact the teacher of the course, in order to discuss alternative examination methods, in agreement with the competent Office.
Assessment criteria, in addition to the ability to demonstrate knowledge of the contents, are the following: ability to organize knowledge discursively; capacity for critical reasoning on the study carried out; quality and effectiveness of presentation, competence in the use of the appropriate discipline-specific language.
Marks are out of 30; minimum passing grade 18.
Papers produced during the year cooperate in determining the evaluation.
Marks are out of 30.
International or Erasmus incoming students are kindly requested to contact the teacher of the course. Students with disabilities and/or SLD should contact the teacher of the course, in order to discuss alternative examination methods, in agreement with the competent Office.
Assessment criteria, in addition to the ability to demonstrate knowledge of the contents, are the following: ability to organize knowledge discursively; capacity for critical reasoning on the study carried out; quality and effectiveness of presentation, competence in the use of the appropriate discipline-specific language.
Marks are out of 30; minimum passing grade 18.
Unita' didattica A
L-FIL-LET/12 - ITALIAN LINGUISTICS - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Professor:
Prada Massimo
Unita' didattica B
L-FIL-LET/12 - ITALIAN LINGUISTICS - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Unita' didattica C
L-FIL-LET/12 - ITALIAN LINGUISTICS - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Professor(s)
Reception:
Thursday, 13.30 - 16.30
The teacher sees students through Skype; the appointment is made by email.