To have had basic training in general linguistics and phonetics in particular. It is preferable to have taken LROM1222 French Linguistics II : historical approach.
The prerequisite(s) for this Teaching Unit (Unité d’enseignement – UE) for the programmes/courses that offer this Teaching Unit are specified at the end of this sheet.
The course is divided in two parts :
1) Description of the emergence and development of various Romance languages, from latin to nowadays, in their sociolinguistic (ex. standardisation process, official and symbolic status, geographic distribution) and political (ex. linguistic unification and language policies) dimension.
2) On the basis of etymological case studies (discovery of etymological correspondences between Latin and Romance languages), formal and comparative description of the main phonological and lexical characteristics of Romance languages.
By the end of the course, the student will be able :
- master general knowledge about the history and the sociolinguistic and political situation of various Romance languages;
- understand the typological and genetic relationships between Romance languages;
- put in place methodical analysis in comparative etymology of Romance languages;
- describe and analyses formal similarities and differences between major Romance languages.
The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
30 hours of lectures
After a general introduction (on the Romania, categorization of Romance languages), the course will examine the situation of the groups of Romance languages, focusing systematically on their genesis, their sociolinguistic situation and on their linguistic features. The course will end with a study of the phonological correspondences between Spanish, Italian and French
See the document entitled 'Bibliography' on the Moodle course website.
