Italian: Grammar in Practice

Teacher(s)

Béghin Laurent (coordinator); Stevanato Tiziana;

Language

Italian

Prerequisites

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.

Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

On completing this Unit students should be able to: 1. Employ sophisticated grammar in context (tense use, alternation between indicative/subjunctive, use of coordinating and subordinating conjunctions); 2. Compare the different options that are available in a given context (sentence, text) taking into account differences in meaning or register; 3. Explain grammatical structures in context and translate them.

Content

First semester: study of the subjunctive and the complex sentence (in particular subordination). First and second terms: study of various points not covered in the first year (past simple, indirect speech, pronoun “sé”, etc.). In the second semester, directed exercises in translation from French into Italian are organised. They aim to activate the knowledge acquired (lexicon and grammar) and to avoid duplication. For more details, we refer to the distance learning platform.

Teaching methods

Lectures and practical exercises

Evaluation methods

Written assessment. Oral assessment on line if required by the sanitory situation.

Bibliography

BERRUTO Gaetano, Sociolinguistica dell'italiano contemporaneo, Roma, La Nuova Italia Scientifica, 1987. DARDANONE Maurizio, TRIFONE Pietro, Grammatica italiana con nozioni di linguistica, Bologna, Zanichelli, 1995. LEPSCHY Laura, LEPSCHY Giulio, La lingua italiana. Storia, varietà dell'uso, grammatica, Milano, Bompiani, 1981. PALERMO Massimo, TRIFONE Piero, Grammatica italiana di base, Bologna, Zanichelli, 2000. PRANDI Michele, Le regole e le scelte. Introduzione alla grammatica italiana, Torino, Utet, 2006. RENZI Lorenzo (a cura di), Grande grammatica italiana di consultazione, Vol. I. La frase. I sintagmi nominale e preposizionale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1988. IDEM, Come cambia la lingua? L'italiano in movimento, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2012.
RENZI Lorenzo, SALVI Giampaolo, Grande grammatica italiana di consultazione. Vol. II. I sintagmi verbale, aggettivale, avverbiale. La subordinazione, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1991. SCAVÉE Pierre, INTRAVAIA Pietro, Traité de stylistique comparée. Analyse comparative du français et de l'italien, Bruxelles, Didier, 1979. ULYSSE Georges, L'italien de A à Z, Paris, Hatier, 1994.
VALLÉ Annette, Guide de grammaire italienne avec exercices, Bruxelles, De Boeck, 1998.
 

Faculty or entity

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