SPANISH LINGUISTICS

The course aims at providing students with the basic tools for understanding Spanish syntax, with the ultimate aim of improving their competence of Spanish as a foreign language.

1. Knowledge and understanding:
The students know and understang the relevant parametric variations between Spanish syntax and Italian syntax.
The students know the basic properties of the different types of sentence, according to the following traditional criteria: the modality, the structure of the predicate, and the relation between subject and predicate.
The students know and understand the recent theorethical hipothesis about the internal structure of nominal expressions and the internal structure of the different types of Spanish sentence.
The students know the "neutral" and the "marked" word order of the sentence in Spanish.

2. Applying knowledge and understanding:
The students are able to use the linguistic terminology correctly, at all stages of application of the acquired knowledge.
The students are able to identify and reflect on the relevant interlinguistic variations between Spanish and Italian syntax.
The students are able to apply their knowledge and understanding while formulating an hipothesis, collecting data, and presenting an argument in an effective way.

3. Making judgments:
The students will be able to formulate hypotheses, and to argument their judgement with empirical evidence.

4. Communication:
The students are able to transfer their reflection capacity on a number of linguistic phenomena with appropiate terminology.
The studens are able to to argument critically and respectfully with the peers and with the teacher.

5. Learning skills:
The students are able to perform adequate bibliographic research, motivate the adoption of a framework, and express constructive criticism about the literature consulted.

Good knowledge of the Spanish language and basic knowledge of linguistic theory and syntax.

1. The syntax of the accusative "a" and the different interpretations that definite and indefinite nominal constructions can express.
2. The determiners in Spanish language. The properties of the definite article. The nominal ellipsis phenomenon. The syntactic properties of "lo" with emphatic and non emphatic value.
3. The interpretive and syntactic properties of personal ponouns (strong and clitic forms). Clitic clusters and clitic doubling.
4. The main properties of unaccusative verbs.
5. The properties of declarative, interrogative and exclamative sentences. The the modality and the internal structure of the left periphery.
6. The properties of copular sentences. Use of "ser" and "estar".
7. The properties of the existential construction with "haber".
8. The properties of the constructions with middle, passive and impersonal "se".
9. "Neutral" and "marked" word order in Spanish sentences: Clitic Left Dislocation and Contrastive Focus.

For "LINGUISTICA SPAGNOLA":

Brugè Laura y Gerhard Brugger, "Restricciones sintácticas y semánticas: la "a" de acusativo en español", en N. Català y M. Bargallò (coord.), PROCCEDINGS OF THE IV COLLOQUIUM OF GENERATIVE GRAMMAR, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, 1997, pags. 112-137.

Di Tullio Angela, MANUAL DE GRAMÁTICA DEL ESPAÑOL, Edicial, Buenos Aires, 1997, caps. X (pags. 171-181), XV (pags. 265-277) y XVII (pags. 297-309).

Fernández Leboranz M.a Jesús, "La predicación: las oraciones copulativas". En I. Bosque y V. Demonte (coord.) GRAMÁTICA DESCRIPTIVA DE LA LENGUA ESPAÑOLA, vol.2, cap.37, Espasa Calpe, Madrid, 1999, pags. 2357-2369; 2421-2428.

Fernandez Soriano Olga, "El pronombre personal. Formas y distribuciones". En I. Bosque y V. Demonte (coord.) GRAMÁTICA DESCRIPTIVA DE LA LENGUA ESPAÑOLA, vol.1, cap.19, Espasa Calpe, Madrid, 1999, pags. 1211-1228; 1246-1251; 1253-1268.

Hernanz M.a LLuïsa y José M.a Brucart, LA SINTAXIS, Editorial Crítica, Barcelona, 1987, cap. 3, pags. 70-99.

Leonetti Manuel, "El artículo". En I. Bosque y V. Demonte (coord.) GRAMÁTICA DESCRIPTIVA DE LA LENGUA ESPAÑOLA, vol.1, cap.12, Espasa Calpe, Madrid, 1999, pags. 789-798; 814-823; 829-844.

Rodríguez Ramalle Teresa María, MANUAL DE SINTAXIS DEL ESPAÑOL, Editorial Castalia Universitaria, Madrid, 2005, caps. 4.5.3 (pags. 396-402) y 5.1 (pags. 417-428).

Torrego Esther, "Algunas observaciones sobre las oraciones existenciales con "haber" en español", en AAVV, ESTUDIS GRAMATICALS, 1984, vol.1, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, pags. 329-339.

Other papers and materials may be distributed during the course.


For "LINGUA CATALANA":

Joan Solà et al. (dir.), GRAMÀTICA DEL CATALÀ CONTEMPORANI. Volum 2. SINTAXI (1-16). Editorial Empúries, Barcelona, 2002.
1. “L’oraciò” (M. LLuïsa Hernanz): pp. 995-1003; pp. 1013-1032; pp. 1042-1047.
2. “Les functions sintàctiques” (Aurora Bel): pp. 1086-1095; pp. 1097-1099; pp. 1121-1124; pp. 1129-1145.
3. “L’enunicaciò i la modalitat oracional” (Lluís Payrató): pp. 1151-1154; pp. 1178-1187; pp. 1194-1206; pp. 1208-1216.
4. “L’oraciò com a unitat informativa” (Enric Vallduví): pp. 1223-1229; pp. 1232-1239; pp. 1238-1239; pp. 1248-1253; pp. 1267-1272.
6. “Els pronoms” (Júlia Todolí): pp. 1341-1359; pp. 1364-1373; pp. 1389-1403; pp. 1406- 1409; pp. 1420-1424.
7. “Els determinants” (Josep M. Brucart); pp. 1437-1443; pp. 1445-1447; pp-1450-1461; pp. 1467-1479.
11. “La preposició i el sintagma preposicional” (Pelegrí Sancho Cremades): pp. 1737-1738.
13. “El SV, I: verb i arguments verbals” (Joana Rosselló): pp. 1887-1895.
14. “El SV, II: la predicació no verbal obligatòria”: pp. 1953-1970; pp. 1993-2017.
16. “La passiva i les construcions que s’hi relacionen” (Anna Bartra Kaufmann): pp. 2149-2160.

The exam will consist of an oral test (five to six open questions, approx. length 25/30 minutes) with the aim to ascertain the degree of knowledge and problem solving ability attained by the student regarding the theoretical contents and all the linguistics aspects studied during the course studied during the course.

Frontal lessons. Exercises. Individual tutoring by the teacher.

Italian

Regular attendance is recommended.

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