ENGLISH LINGUISTICS

This course is part of the third year of the Linguistics-Philology-Language Teaching curriculum for students whose primary language is English. It is a core course that applies methodologies and consolidates the formal linguistics skills acquired in previous years.
The overall objective of the course is to consolidate metalinguistic competence through the use of formal syntax and to improve English language skills by analysing aspects of different varieties of English, comparing them with Italian and other Western languages known to students in LCSL.

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.

Have the competencies and capacities achieved in the courses of General Linguistics 1 and General Linguistics 2
Have a B2.2 competence of English as achieved by the courses of English Language 1 and 2
Have excellent competence of Italian (at least B2, when applied to non-native speakers)

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

Giuliana Giusti (2009) Strumenti di analisi per la lingua inglese. Torino: Utet libreria.
two other readings for in-depth study among those suggested on the moodle page of the course

Oral exam. The discussion on a topic selected by the student assesses knowledge and understanding. The discussion of a topic selected by the examiner equally assesses knowledge and understanding. The syntactic analysis of a given sentence assesses understanding and autonomy of judgement. The discussion of one of the two papers among the suggested readings assesses autonomy of judgement and autonomous learning capacity.

oral

The achievement of the following learning objectives will be evaluated on a scale of sufficient (18-14), good (25-27), excellent (28-29), excellent (30, 30 cum laude)
Ability to perform a simple syntactic analysis using a tree diagram 20% = 1-6);
Ability to present a topic of your choice 20% = 1-6);
Ability to present a topic suggested by the teacher (30% = 1-9);
Ability to present in a critical form one of two articles of your choice (30% = 1-9),

in person lectures and virtual classroom.