COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS IN THE TURKISH-IRANIAN AREA

The course is part of the educational activities in the core program of the curriculum. It covers the compulsory-elective course for students of Turkish, Persian, and Armenian, and is eligible as a linguistics course also for other languages.

1. Knowledge and comprehension
- Acquisition of notions of contact linguistics
- To understand processes of linguistic interference and interaction, structurally and sociolinguistically

2. Capacity of application
- To apply the acquired notions to the analysis of case studies concerning languages in contact of the area (and beyond)
- To compose autonomously a research on a case of language contact

Basic notions of general linguistics; if absent, the student is asked to acquire the necessary notions through personal reading (cf. references below) before the course or during the first weeks of the lessons.

1. Introduction to the theories of language contact

2. Terms: bilingualism/bilinguality, code switching/mixing, diglossia

3. Areal case studies
Anatolia, Balkans, Cyprus, Turkish-Iranian contacts, Caucasus, Central Europe

The preparation and composition of the final paper (see below) is a complementary part of the course contents.

General linguistics (for personal reading, one book to be selected):
Akmajian. Adrian et al. 1996. Linguistica: introduzione al linguaggio e alla comunicazione. Bologna: Il Mulino.
Graffi, Giorgio & Scalise, Sergio 2003. Le lingue e il linguaggio: introduzione alla linguistica. Bologna: Il Mulino.
Fromkin, Victoria & Rodman, Robert & Hyams, Nina 1974. An Introduction to Language. New York: Rinehart & Wiston.

Contact linguistics:
Johanson, Lars 2002. Structural Factors in Turkic Language Contacts. London: Curzon.
Thomason, Sarah G. & Kaufman, Terrence 1988. Contact linguistics, creolization and genetic linguistics. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Weinreich, Uriel 1968. Languages in Contact. The Hague: Mouton.
Winford, Donald 2003. An Introduction to Contact Linguistics. Malden/Mass.: Blackwell.

Written paper on a topic agreed with the instructor. For a better preparation the paper can be briefly presented and discussed in class.

Lecture - seminar and papers

Italian

The exam will consist of a written paper to be agreed with instructor on a specific topic of the course themes

written

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "International cooperation" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development