IJIA018 Syntax of Contemporary Italian

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Zuzana Šebelová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Petr Dytrt, Ph.D.
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Dagmar Holoubková
Timetable
Mon 13:20–14:55 G25
Prerequisites (in Czech)
IJIA005 Practical Italian II && IJIA015 Practical Italian IV
Normativní gramatika I - III.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The main purpose of the course is to bring to the students a deeper theoretical understanding and practical mastery of the Italian syntax. The course is a continuation of the Normative Grammar of Italian, dedicated mainly to the Italian morphology. The course focuses above all on the chapters concerning the basic constituents of the sentence, the use of verbal tenses and modes etc. The studied phenomena are illustrated by original texts.
Syllabus
  • Familiarization with the necessary terminology. Syntagm. Types of sentences: possible criteria for their classification. The constituents of a sentence. Complex and compound sentences. The types of subordinate clauses. The functional sentence perspective. The Italian word order compared to Czech. Specific features of the Italian syntax and the problems of translation.
Literature
  • SERIANNI, Luca. Grammatica italiana. Italiano comune e lingua letteraria. Torino, 1989. info
  • DARDANO, Maurizio and Pietro TRIFONE. La lingua italiana. Bologna, 1991. info
  • BATTAGLIA, S. and V. PERNICONE. La grammatica italiana. Torino, 1957. info
  • LEPSCHY, Laura and Giulio LEPSCHY. La lingua italiana. Storia, varieta dell'uso, grammatica. Milano, 1994. info
  • Hamplová, Sylva. Mluvnice italštiny. Praha: Leda, 2004.
  • HAMPLOVÁ, Sylva. Stručná mluvnice italštiny. 2. vyd. Praha: Academia, 1987, 373 s. info
  • Wotkeová, Zuzana. Elementi di morfosintassi italiana. Brno: CERM, 2005.
Assessment methods
Written test.
Language of instruction
Italian
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2000, Spring 2001, Spring 2002, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021.
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