UZIJB956 Dialects in Italy: Past and Present

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Jan Pavlík (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Petr Dytrt, Ph.D.
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Dagmar Holoubková
Timetable
Mon 15:00–16:35 C32
Prerequisites (in Czech)
UZIJA107 Historical Develop. of Ital.
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 course gives a brief survey of Italian dialects in synchronic (classification of dialects and their characteristic features) and diachronic (main causes of the present diversity, from the arrival of the Italics to the unification of Italy) levels. At the end of the course, the student should be able to understand the main differences between various Italic languages; to understand the main causes giving birth to various dialects; to define the basic influence of various substrata; to have a general view of the dialects of Italy of today and to be able to characterize them.
Syllabus
  • The first part of the course, closely related to the Introduction to Vulgar Latin, deals with the typology of various languages spoken in the Apennine Peninsula after the arrival of the Latins; special attention will be paid to the differentiation of Vulgar Latin in the Apennine Peninsula under the influence of the Italic, Etruscan, Celtic and other substrata; historical and political conditions fostering linguistic diversity will be described as well. The second part, related to the Historical Development of Italian, focuses at a detailed phonetic and morphological description of contemporary dialects; special attention will be devoted to Sardinian. Texts in contemporary dialects (romanesco, piemontese, milanese, friulano, veneziano, napoletano, sardo, etc.) as well as in the languages of Italy in Antiquity (Oscan, Umbrian, etc.), will also be studied in the practical part of the course.
Literature
  • LEPSCHY, Laura and Giulio LEPSCHY. La lingua italiana. Storia, varieta dell'uso, grammatica. Milano, 1994. info
  • POLIZZI, Gaspare. Della lingua. Firenze, 1984. info
  • ROHLFS, Gerhard. Grammatica storica della lingua italiana e dei suoi dialetti. Torino, 1969. info
  • TAGLIAVINI, Carlo. Le origini delle lingue neolatine. Bologna, 1969. info
  • TEKAVČIC, Pavao. Grammatica storica della lingua italiana. Zagreb, 1965. info
  • MIGLIORINI, Bruno. Storia della lingua italiana. Firenze, 1960. info
  • PEI, Mario. The Italian Language. New York, 1941. info
  • BERTONI, Giulio. Italia dialettale. Milano, 1916. info
Assessment methods
Lecture and seminar; examination written or oral.
Language of instruction
Italian
Further Comments
The course is taught only once.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Autumn 2007.
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