ENGLISH LINGUISTICS

The course aims at providing students with the basic tools for understanding Spanish syntax, with the ultimate aim of improving their competence of English as a foreign language.

1. Knowledge and understanding:
The students know and understang the relevant parametric variations between English and Italian syntax.
The students know the basic properties of the different types of sentence, according to the following traditional criteria: the modality, the structure of the predicate, and the relation between subject and predicate.
The students know and understand the recent theorethical hipothesis about the internal structure of nominal expressions and the internal structure of the different types of Spanish sentence.
The students know the "neutral" and the "marked" word order of the sentence in English.

2. Applying knowledge and understanding:
The students are able to use the linguistic terminology correctly, at all stages of application of the acquired knowledge.
The students are able to identify and reflect on the relevant interlinguistic variations between English and Italian syntax.
The students are able to apply their knowledge and understanding while formulating a hypothesis, collecting data, and presenting an argument in an effective way.

3. Making judgments:
The students will be able to formulate hypotheses, and to argument their judgement with empirical evidence.

4. Communication:
The students are able to transfer their reflection capacity on a number of linguistic phenomena with appropiate terminology.
The studens are able to to argument critically and respectfully with the peers and with the teacher.

5. Learning skills:
The students are able to perform adequate bibliographic research, motivate the adoption of a framework, and express constructive criticism about the literature consulted.

Basic knowledge of linguistics and generative syntax.
Good knowledge of English (B2+).
Good knowledge of Italian (B2+)

1. Aims and goals of the course
2-3. The argument structure of the VP
4. The functional structure of the clause
5-6. Finite and infinitival clauses
7-8. Grammatical functions (Subject, Direct Object, Indirect Object)
9. The unmarked order in positive and negative clauses
10. Direct and indirect clauses
11. The noun phrase
12. Determiners and possessors
13. Adjectives
14-15. Final remarks

Handbook: Giuliana Giusti (2009) Strumenti di analisi per la lingua inglese. Torino: Utet libreria.
Other reading in English will be given in the moodle page of the course

The grade will be based on the evaluation of a collaborative project (50%) and an oral test

Frontal lessons. Virtual classroom. Peer work. Individual tutoring by the teacher.

Italian

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This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development