1,721,020 research outputs found

    Formal Linguistics and the Teaching of Latin. Theoretical and Applied Perspectives in Comparative Grammar.

    No full text
    This volume offers a coherent collection of 26 papers presented at an international conference held in November 2010, exploring the latest achievements of formal and comparative linguistics applied to the teaching of Latin. The three sections (syntax and morphology, semantics and pragmatics, history and theory of teaching) compare Latin with different ancient and modern languages, aiming to represent grammar rules as the product of mental processes. The book is addressed to linguists, teachers and students, who are looking for new perspectives to update their approach to classical Latin

    Il latino nella prospettiva dell'educazione linguistica comparativa e inclusiva

    No full text
    The basic idea of this contribution is that a ‘comparative’ approach to the teaching of languages (mother tongue, classical languages, foreign languages) can give good results even with people with dyslexia. The comparative approach is based on the progressive introduction of linguistic concepts (basic/derived positions, syntactic movement) adapted to educational needs, and aims to find both similarities (principles) and differences (parameters) among languages

    Come la linguistica moderna può contribuire a rinnovare l’insegnamento della sintassi nominale latina.

    No full text
    This article aims at giving a contribution to the renovation of the teaching of Latin by offering some reflections on the idea that Latin freedom of word order is only apparent and it is controlled by a syntactic structure which follows both universal principles and specific rules of Latin. Furthermore, I intend to support the validity of the comparative approach, which takes into account data of Latin, of the students' mother tongue and of other foreign languages. In particular, I will focus on the generative theory of nominal syntax on demonstratives and adjectives simplified for teaching purposes. Indeed, the analysis of the data taken from a corpus of Latin noun phrases shows that (1) not all logically possible combinations of words are attested and (2) not all the attested orders are found with the same frequency. Thus, this approach can help students in developing their ability of reflecting explicitly on language structures and on their semantic and pragmatic interpretations
    corecore