Unit HISTORY OF ITALIAN
- Course
- Humanities
- Study-unit Code
- 35136112
- Curriculum
- Moderno
- Teacher
- Giulio Vaccaro
- Teachers
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- Giulio Vaccaro
- Hours
- 72 ore - Giulio Vaccaro
- CFU
- 12
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2023
- Offered
- 2024/25
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Filologia, linguistica e letteratura
- Academic discipline
- L-FIL-LET/12
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian.
- Contents
- First module (36 hours; Bachelor's degree students)
Elements of Italian language history.
Elements of Italian linguistics; Phonetics and phonology of Italian; Moments in Italian linguistic history; Historical grammar of Italian: from Latin to vernacular; early vernacular texts; phenomena of phonology; hints at morphology and word formation. Linguistic analysis applied to texts.
Second module (36 hours; bachelor's and master's degree students).
The language of song.
Linguistic analysis and commentary of some song texts: starting with social singing in the late 19th century, passing through the language of songwriters to the more recent phenomena of the language of song. - Reference texts
- For attending Bachelor's degree students (12 CFUs):
1) Luca Serianni, Lezioni di grammatica storica italiana, Roma, Bulzoni, 1991 (o edd. successive);
2) Un volume a scelta tra:
A. Storia dell’italiano. La lingua, i testi, diretta da Giovanna Frosini (con la collaborazione di Andrea Felici, Marco Maggiore, Margherita Quaglino, Eugenio Salvatore), Roma, Salerno Ed., 2020;
B. Pietro Trifone, Emiliano Picchiorri, Giuseppe Zarra, L’italiano nella storia. Lingua d’uso e di cultura, Firenze, Le Monnier, 2023;
C. Rita Librandi, Profilo storico della lingua italiana, Roma, Carocci, 2023.
3) Giuseppe Antonelli, Ma cosa vuoi che sia una canzone. Mezzo secolo di italiano cantato, Bologna, il Mulino, 2010 (o ed. successiva: Milano, Corriere della sera, 2017);
4) materials loaded in Unistudium.
For non-attending Bachelor's degree students (12 CFUs):
1) Giuseppe Patota, Nuovi lineamenti di grammatica storica dell’italiano, Bologna, il Mulino, 2002 (o edd. successive);
2) Storia dell’italiano. La lingua, i testi, diretta da Giovanna Frosini (con la collaborazione di Andrea Felici, Marco Maggiore, Margherita Quaglino, Eugenio Salvatore), Roma, Salerno Ed., 2020;
3) Luca Serianni, Giuseppe Antonelli, Manuale di linguistica italiana. Storia, attualità, grammatica, Milano, Mondadori, 2011 (o edizioni successive);
4) Manuale di linguistica italiana, a cura di Sergio Lubello, Berlin-Boston, De Gruyter, 2016, capitoli 22 (La lessicografia), 23 (La grammaticografia);
5) Tullio De Mauro, Storia linguistica dell’Italia unita, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2011 (o qualunque altra edizione), limitatamente ai capitoli I (Il primato dell’Italiano), II (Una lingua d’elezione), III (Nuove condizioni linguistiche), IV (Nuove forme e funzioni)
For attending Master's degree students (12 CFUs) who have already taken acourse in History of the Italian Language:
1) Giuseppe Antonelli, Ma cosa vuoi che sia una canzone. Mezzo secolo di italiano cantato, Bologna, il Mulino, 2010 (o ed. successiva: Milano, Corriere della sera, 2017);
2) materials loaded in Unistudium;
3) a written paper on a topic to be agreed upon with the professor.
For attending Master's degree students (6 CFUs) who have already taken a course in History of the Italian Language
1) Giuseppe Antonelli, Ma cosa vuoi che sia una canzone. Mezzo secolo di italiano cantato, Bologna, il Mulino, 2010 (o ed. successiva: Milano, Corriere della sera, 2017);
2) materials loaded in Unistudium;
For attending students of the Master's Degree who have not already taken a course in History of the Italian Language, the syllabus is that of students in the Bachelor's Degree. Non-attending Master's Degree students and students enrolled in single courses will agree on the program directly with the teacher.
Students with disabilities and/or with DSA who, having completed regular accreditation through SOL, have obtained access to the University services, may request the compensatory tools provided by the regulations (e.g., textbooks in digital format; teaching materials in accessible formats : presentations, handouts, exercise books, provided if necessary in advance of the lectures), for which see page https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa. For the request, the student is invited to contact the teacher, who will put him/her in touch with the Department's Disability and/or DSA Contact Person (Prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it) - Educational objectives
- Knowledge and understanding. Knowledge of the main lines of evolution of Italian and Italoromance dialect varieties, in their phonological, morphological, syntactical and lexical aspects; knowledge of the debate on the question of language over the centuries; awareness of the dynamics of linguistic variation, according to the diatopic, diastratic, diaphasic and diamesic axes.
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding. Ability to conduct field research in linguistics, collecting and analyzing first-hand data; ability to use the tools of the discipline correctly, also with a view to their possible use in teaching activities at the school and university level.
Autonomy of judgment. Acquisition of autonomy of judgment in the linguistic analysis of a text in Italian, with the ability to verify hypotheses on provenance, historical phase of belonging, and type of writer, including through the retrieval of the appropriate bibliography.
Communicative skills. Ability to draft, expand, reduce or correct a written text for its use for work purposes (journalism, advertising, cultural popularization); ability to produce written and oral texts appropriate to different communicative situations and to expound the contents of the discipline both with specialist interlocutors and at a popularized level.
Learning skills. Preparation for study and research both for entry into a master's degree program and for the purpose of employment in the fields of journalism, advertising, science, institutional and cultural outreach. - Prerequisites
- No.
- Teaching methods
- Lectures and seminar meetings.
- Other information
- For more specifics or information, you can contact me by email (giulio.vaccaro@unipg.it) or during office hours.
- Learning verification modality
- Final oral exam.
The exam, which lasts about 30 minutes, is divided into three sections: historical grammar phenomena; linguistic history of Italian; and commentary on two texts analyzed during the lectures, with historical background.
The assessment of the exam takes particular account of the ability to move with autonomy and awareness within the history of the Italian language. - Extended program
- The course will be divided into two 36-hour modules.
In the first module (reserved for bachelor's degree students and master's degree students who have not taken exams in History of the Italian Language) we will look at the basic principles for linguistic analysis, focusing in particular on: orthography, phonetics and phonology of Italian; historical development of Italian, with particular regard to the stage of language formation; historical grammar of the Italian language (with some extensions to dialects).
In the second module (for all students) we will deal with the birth and development of the language of Italian song: starting with the social song of the late 19th century, then moving on to the Neapolitan song of the early 20th century, and arriving at trap lyrics we will analyze the evolution of the Italian of music in its metric-stylistic and lexical aspects. - Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile