At the end of this course you will have:

• gained a basic insight into a theoretical framework for the description of the Spanish language.

• developed your ability to make use of grammar to explain language usage in specific cases.

• improved your ability to use correct and idiomatic Spanish.

• raised your awareness of how grammar contributes to the meaning of sentences and texts.

• improved your production of coherent and comprehensible texts at an oral and written level.

• appraised key issues of syntactic analysis.

• improved your ability to write projects searches in Spanish Linguistics.

· Human language: properties, characteristics and specificity.

· The concept of "grammatical competence"

· The concept of "syntax"

· Grammaticality and related notions

· Word classes

· Syntagmatic categories

· Constituent structures

· Grammar functions

· Order of constituents

· Simple and compound sentence (focus on substantive subordinates)

Knowledge and ability to understand: the student, by the end of the course, will have acquired the main tools of syntactic analysis of Spanish.

Applied knowledge and comprehension skills: the student will be able to recognize and analyze the main syntactic constructs of the Spanish language.

Autonomy of judgment: the student will be able to rework the theoretical information acquired in the course to apply it to the analysis of sentences and texts in Spanish.

Communicative skills: the student will be able to master the four skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) at language level B2 of the Single European Framework of Reference. This objective will be pursued through language exercises.

Learning skills: the student will be able to apply the linguistic knowledge learned and practiced in the lectureship by integrating it with the technical terminology and formal analysis methods acquired during the course.

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

Teaching

Frontal lectures.

Language exercises.

Course books

Bibliography:

1.     Bosque I. y Gutiérrez-Rexach J. (2009). Fundamentos de sintaxis formal. Madrid: Akal, pp. 11-16, 28-45

2.     Escandell Vidal, M.V. (2011). “El lenguaje y la naturaleza humana”, en M.V. Escandell Vidal (coord.) (2011). El lenguaje humano, Editorial universitaria Ramón Areces [capítulo 1]

3.     Gómez Torrego, L. (2003). Análisis sintáctico, teoría y práctica. Madrid: SM.

4.     Gutiérrez Rodríguez E. (2011). “La sintaxis”, en M.V. Escandell Vidal (coord.) (2011). El lenguaje humano, Editorial universitaria Ramón Areces [capítulo 5]

5.     Hualde, J.I. et al. (2001). Introducción a la lingüística hispánica. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [en especial el capítulo 4]

6.     San Vicente, Félix (dir. y coord.) (2015), GREIT Gramática de referencia de español para italófonos. Vol III. Oración discurso, léxico. CLUEB-Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca. [en especial el capítulo XL]

Complementary bibliography:

1.     Real Academia Española (2010); Nueva gramática de la lengua española. Manual. Madrid: Espasa. [capítulos 31-47]

2.     Real Academia Española (2011). Nueva gramática básica de la lengua española. Madrid: Espasa [parte III]

3.     Vera Luján, A. (2010). Fundamentos de sintaxis. Madrid: UNED. [en especial el capítulo 4]

Assessment

The examination mode related to the monograph course will be written. For the other parts of the examination, see the directions given in the general part of the Vademecum.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

Course books

Same as attending students.

Assessment

Same as attending students.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.