LINGUISTICS AND DIGITAL APPLICATIOS

According to the Dublin descriptors, at the end of my course, students

1) will acquire a general knowledge of the concepts and methods of the discipline;

2) on the basis of this knowledge, will be able to understand and discuss linguistic hypotheses starting from the observation of texts and examples;

3) will be able to retrieve linguistic information using the most recent tools of Italian and foreign lexicography, research engines, digital archives.

Through laboratory activities, students will:

• analyze the main features of speech using experimental phonetics applications;
• identify the part of speech to which each word in a text belongs, arguing their choice.

Lectures

Active learning

Fundamentals of linguistics: Levels of linguistic analysis (phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics).

Idiomaticity, vocabulary and dictionaries: Linguistic research and multimedia technologies: lexicon, usage dictionaries; characteristics of the main Italian and foreign monolingual dictionaries.

Texts:

• G. Graffi, S. Scalise, Le lingue e il linguaggio. Introduzione alla linguistica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2013, chapters 1-2 (pp. 15-51), 4 (pp. 75-111), 6-8 (pp. 153-227).

• Introduzione al Grande Dizionario della Lingua italiana (GraDIt), di T. De Mauro, Torino, Utet, 1999, vol. I, pp. VII-XLII.
• Presentazione - La trama del dizionario in F. Sabatini - V. Coletti, Dizionario della lingua italiana, Varese, Sansoni, 2012, pp. 7-16.
• S. Menza, L’informazione sintattica in A. Lanaia, S. Menza, S.C. Sgroi, S.C. Trovato, I. Valenti, Per un Nuovo Vocabolario Siciliano, Palermo, Centro di Studi filologici e linguistici siciliani, 2010, pp. 37-64.
• Lecture notes available on STUDIUM

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