HISTORY OF KOREAN LANGUAGE 1

History of Korean Language 1 is one of the core courses within the Korea curriculum of the Corso di Laurea in "Lingue, Culture e Società dell'Asia e dell'Africa Mediterranea".
Its formative objectives are to be identified within the learning of linguistic and philological competences
It is necessary for the acquisition of basic information relevant to the History of Korean language, its origin, writing systems, and aiming at clarifying the process which led Korea to invent her own alphabetic system in the XV century.

Knowledge and comprehension:
- knowing and understanding the main elements of the history of Korean language and writing systems from its origin to the 15th century.
- connect them with historical and cultural developments studied in other courses of the same curriculum, relevant to the same historical period.

Ability to apply knowledge and comprehension:
- ability to analyze and explain texts written in different writing systems, by utilizing given interpretation methods

Judgment abilities:
- ability to produce critiques on textual, historical and literary themes included in the study programme, by recurring to critically and historically solid arguments
- ability to evaluate all kinds of literary primary sources

Communicative abilities:
- ability ot express and elaborate in writing the contents of the course programme, using critical approach and not mnemonical strategies.

Learning abilities:
- learn how to take notes effectively and thoroughly
- how to integrate the study on different materials (notes, slides, manuals, creative texts and academic articles)
- learning to study autonomously with materials and on subjects not covered in class
- Learning how to deal with materials in English

The students should possess at least basic knowledge of the morpho-syntactic structure of the Korean language, whereas it is not deemed necessary knowledge of Literary Chinese. Each lesson will indeed be thoroughly and carefully explained to the students, in each of the most difficult passages.

Lesson 1: Introduction to the course: aims and writing system
Lesson 2: The origin and formation of Korean I: methods, topics, origin
Lesson 3: The origin and formation of Korean II: formation of Korean
Lesson 4: Old Korean I: writing System, Sources
Lesson 5: Old Korean II: Phonology
Lesson 6: Old Korean III: Grammar
Lesson 7: Old Korean IV: Vocabulary
Lesson 8: Early Middle Korean I: Sources
Lesson 9: Early Middle Korean II: Phonology, Vocabulary
Lesson 10: Huminjeongeum : The invention of Korean alphabet
Lesson 11: Late Middle Korean I: writing system
Lesson 12: Late Middle Korean II: Phonology
Lesson 13: Late Middle Korean III: Grammar 1
Lesson 14: Late Middle Korean III: Grammar 2
Lesson 15: Review and exam preparation

Bibliography
Lee, Ki-Moon & Ramsey, S. Robert 2011. A History of the Korean Language. Cambridge University Press.
Sohn, Ho-Min 1999. The Korean Language. Cambridge University Press.
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The final exam consists of a written test (90 minutes) with and multiple-choice questions as well as short open-ended questions.

written

Below 18 points : insufficiente

Teacher-led classes. Students' participation is highly recommended. Among foreseen activities: group study, projection of slides, and consultation of primary sources.