Theoretical Linguistics

The course is for those students who have already had a basic training in Linguistics and for those ones who have already had an exam in Linguistics. The course deals with the structural features that characterize the languages of the world, with regard either to the their universal tendencies, and the domains of their mutual divergences. It also will get to a deep knowledge of the history of linguistic thought and of the main hermeneutical paradigms over the years.

The student will be askes to describe exactly the topics proposed and to report them with critical awareness, in order to show his/her adequate possession of the methodological instruments and the founding notions of linguistic sciences. The student will be askes to be able to describe and to frame specific topics proposed into the more general horizon of Western linguistic reflection, of its history and of its different theoretical paradigms. The student should to be able to identify and to explain clearly and with his/her own words the specific phenomena exhibited by the languages of the world, and he/she should be able to interpret the empirical dimension with and thanks to the theoretical and metalinguistic coordinates offered by the course.