Romance Linguistics

This course aims to provide advanced knowledge on themes, methods and problems related to Romance linguistics. The history of the Romance languages will be studied from a comparative perspective (both in synchrony and in diachrony); particular attention will be paid to methodology concerning geolinguistics and/or sociolinguistics points of view.

At the end of the course every student will have an in-depth knowledge of nineteenth- and twentieth-century history of Romance linguistics, as well as the theories and methodologies used in the field of Romance linguistics. Students will learn to discern, understand, describe and classify the most important linguistic data through Medieval and/or Modern texts or documents, considering them from a diachronic and a diatopic point of view. Finally, they will learn how to use the main consultation sources as well as orienting themselves effectively and confidently within the specific reference bibliography, using the appropriate discipline-specific terminology.