Unit (LATIN (ADVANCED)
- Course
- Humanities
- Study-unit Code
- GP005964
- Curriculum
- Classico
- Teacher
- Luca Cardinali
- Teachers
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- Luca Cardinali
- Hours
- 42 ore - Luca Cardinali
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Lingue e letterature classiche
- Academic discipline
- L-FIL-LET/04
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- italian
- Contents
- Phonetics and morphology of Latin language in their established rules and historical development. Syntax of Latin language in its established rules and historical development.
- Reference texts
- A. TRAINA - T. BERTOTTI, Sintassi normativa della lingua latina, Cappelli Editore, Bologna 1993.
A. TRAINA - G. BERNARDI PERINI, Propedeutica al latino universitario, Patron Editore, Bologna 1982.
N. SCIVOLETTO, Istituzioni di lingua latina, Calzetti & Mariucci, Perugia 2001.
L. R. PALMER, La lingua latina, ed. ital. a cura di M. Vitta, Einaudi, Torino 1977. - Educational objectives
- This teaching is the first test that students face within the matters whose subject is Latin language and literature. The aims we intend to get to are: 1) fairly good knowledge of phonetics and morphology of Latin language in their established rules; 2) fairly good knowledge of syntax of Latin language in its established rules. These goals will be tested in final examination. The skills which are attended to be improved are: logic-deductive abilities, self-contained capacity on judgment, critic approach to Latin texts not so difficult.
- Prerequisites
- In order to be able to understand and to know how to tackle the course, students must have a good knowledge of Latin nominal and verbal morphology and a fairly good knowledge of Latin basic syntax. This precondition is valid both for attending and not attending students. In order to attend this course, is compulsory to have passed in September guidance test.
- Teaching methods
- The course provides only frontal lectures, which embrace all topics of examination program.
- Other information
- Attendance to lectures is not compulsory, but recommended. Without passing this examination, is not possible to take the examination of Latin literature.
- Learning verification modality
- Final written test, which includes multiple choice questions, open questions and a brief translation from Latin. The test will have a maximum duration of four hours. The purpose of the examination is to verify the competence acquired by students in Latin language. After written test will come an oral examination to discuss and master written test.
- Extended program
- Phonetics: Latin as indeuropean language. Latin and the other indoeuropean languages, especially Greek language. Vowel gradation in Latin. Short vowel in medial Latin syllables. Indoeuropean short and long resonants, voiced aspirates, labiovelars in Latin. –E followed by -L pinguis or –L exilis. Rhotacism. Lachmann’s law. Iambic shortening. Lenghtening of vowels. Morphology: The cases: their origin. The Noun: the five declensions: the different stems. The Verb: conjugations and stems. The Verb: voices, moods and tenses. The Verb: frequentative/intensive, inchoative, optative verbs. Syntax: Supine in –um and in –u. Gerund and gerundive. Ablative absolute. Active and passive periphrastic. Meaning and construction of debeo, necesse est, oportet, opus est. Consecutio temporum. Syntax of the cases: Nominative: nominative with an infinitive clause: the construction, in the passive voices, of verba dicendi, narrandi, putandi, existimandi, eligendi, iubendi e vetandi. Meaning and construction of videor. Accusative: direct accusative, accusative of direction, accusative of extent in time or in space, respect (also called Greek accusative) accusative. Genitive: explanatory genitive, possessive genitive, partitive genitive, genitive of quality, subjective and objective genitive, genitive of the charge, genitive of valuation, respect genitive, The construction of refert and interest. The construction of absolutely impersonal verbs. Dative: generic dative, dative of possessor m, dative of advantage and disavantage, dative of purpose and of effect, dative of point of view (dativus iudicantis), dative of the agent, dativus ethicus. Ablative: ablative of separation, ablative of distance, ablative of origin, ablative of deprivation, ablative of the agent, ablative of comparison, ablative of means, ablative of time, ablative of cause, ablative of limitation, ablative of accompaniment, ablative of manner, ablative of quality, ablative of standard, ablative of plenty, ablative of subject, ablative of price or value, prosecutive ablative. Use of reflexive in subordinate sentences: direct and indirect reflexive. Different uses of relative pronoun: connecting relative, prolepsis of relative, incorporation of the antecedent of relative. Different kinds of independent subjunctive in main clauses: exhortation clauses, wish clauses, concession clauses, potential clauses, dubitative clauses, hypothetical clauses, unreal clauses. Different kinds of dependent clauses: the substantive clauses: infinitive clauses, interrogative indirect clauses, complementary clauses introduced by ut, object clauses introduced by quod. The adjectival clauses: relative clauses with indicative or subjunctive. The adverbial clauses: purpose clauses, consecutive clauses, cause clauses, clauses of time, concessive clauses, conditional clauses, The different uses of conjunction ut. The different uses of conjunction cum. The different uses of conjunction quod. Word-formation: Nouns: suffixation in -ti (-tion); -tat; -men (-mentum); -tor; c(u)lum; lo (-ko-lo); -os. Adyectives: suffixation in -no (-ano); -ensis (-iensis); -id; ti (-ko).