PORTUGUESE LINGUISTICS

Academic year
2019/2020 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
LINGUISTICA PORTOGHESE
Course code
LT0950 (AF:321371 AR:136082)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Bachelor's Degree Programme
Educational sector code
L-LIN/01
Period
1st Semester
Course year
3
Where
VENEZIA
Moodle
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The course is part of the linguistic-philological-glottodidactic course of Language, Civilization and Language Sciences course and it is aimed at students who have Portuguese and Brazilian language in their study plan.
1. Knowledge and understanding:
Knowing the linguistic terminology and the specialized lexicon of the discipline.
Knowing and understanding the recent acquisitions of linguistic theories regarding the Portuguese language.
Knowing and understanding the significant interlinguistic variations between the Portuguese and the Italian grammatical system.

2. Applying knowledge and understanding:
Being able to use the analysis tools of formal linguistics to describe and understand aspects of Portuguese syntax.
Knowing how to identify and reflect on the interlinguistic variations between the syntax of Portuguese and the syntax of Italian.
Knowing how to properly use linguistic terminology in the application of acquired knowledge, for example in the analysis of new data or in the teaching of Portuguese.
Knowing how to apply the acquired knowledge to obtain new linguistic data.
Being able to solve problems of linguistic analysis of some complexity.

3. Making judgments:
Being able to present a hypothesis on data from the Portuguese.
Being able to produce examples of Portuguese to support or refute a syntactic hypothesis.

4. Communication skills:
Expressing in writing the hypotheses and linguistic aspects covered during the course using the specific Portuguese terminology of linguistic studies.
Being able to expose the topics covered during the course with terminological properties.
Being able, during the lessons, to interact with peers and with the teacher in a critical and proper way.

5. Learning skills:
Being able to develop critical reasoning in linguistics.
Being able to transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to a more or less expert audience in Portuguese.
Being able to research and select adequate bibliographic sources to study the linguistic phenomena of Portuguese.
Being able to develop the skills acquired to undertake higher studies.
Basic knowledge of linguistics theories and syntax; Portuguese level at least B1+/B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) for languages.
During the course elements of formal linguistics will be addressed (in a comparative key PB-PE-IT), focusing in particular on the following topics:
1. The organization of the lexicon
1.1 Lexicalization processes
1.2 Grammaticalization processes
2. The structure of the sentence
3. Lexical and syntagmatic classes
3.1 Elements of the noun phrase
3.2 Verb and verb phrase
3.3 Adjective and adjectival phrase
3.4 Preposition and prepositional phrase
3.5 Adverb and adverb phrase
4. The textual organization
Chaves R., Organização do léxico, in AA.VV., GRAMÁTICA DO PORTUGUÊS, vol. 1, Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2013, pp. 185-212.
Gonçalves A. & Raposo E. B. P., Verbo e sintagma verbal, , in AA.VV., GRAMÁTICA DO PORTUGUÊS, vol. 1, Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2013, pp. 1155-1218.
Kato M. A. & Nascimento M. do. (Orgs.), GRAMÁTICA DO PORTUGUÊS CULTO FALADO NO BRASIL – VOLUME II – A CONSTRUÇÃO DA SENTENÇA, São Paulo, Contexto, 2015.
Kenedy E., CURSO BÁSICO DE LINGUÍSTICA GERATIVA, São Paulo, Contexto, 2013.
Mendes A., Processos de gramaticalização, in AA.VV., GRAMÁTICA DO PORTUGUÊS, vol. 1, Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2013, pp. 249-293.
Mendes A., Organização do texto e articulação das orações, in AA.VV., GRAMÁTICA DO PORTUGUÊS, vol. 2, Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2013, pp.1691- 1755.
Mioto, C.; Silva, M. C. F.; Lopes, R., NOVO MANUAL DE SINTAXE, São Paulo, Contexto, 2013.
Nascimento M. F. B. do, Processos de lexicalização, in AA.VV., GRAMÁTICA DO PORTUGUÊS, vol. 1, Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2013, pp.215-246.
Neves M. H. M., TEXTO E GRAMÁTICA, São Paulo, Contexto, 2006.
Perini, M., GRAMÁTICA DO PORTUGUÊS BRASILEIRO, São Paulo, Parábola Editorial, 2010.
Raposo E. B. P., Estrutura da frase, in AA.VV., GRAMÁTICA DO PORTUGUÊS, vol. 1, Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2013, pp. 303-398.
Veloso R. & Raposo E. B. P., Adjetivo e sintagma adjetival, in AA.VV., GRAMÁTICA DO PORTUGUÊS, vol. 1, Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2013, pp. 1359-1413.
Wetzels L., Menuzzi S., Costa J. (Eds.), THE HANDBOOK OF PORTUGUESE LINGUISTICS, Wiley-Blackwell, 2016.

Additional bibliographic material may be indicated or distributed by the teacher during the course and will be made available online.
The verification of learning takes place through a written test lasting 2 hours, which consists of 3 open-ended questions.
To pass the exam, a short written paper (5-10 pp.) on a topic discussed in the course is also required.

As long as the coronavirus emergency lasts, the written exam will be replaced with an oral exam on the Google Meet platform. The oral exam consists of 3 open-ended questions.
The presentation of the written paper remains.
Lectures and seminar lessons.
Italian
The frequency is recommended.
written
Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 03/06/2020