Further materials and indications will be given during the course.
H. Branch, Who’s afraid of Finnish?, Eagle Street, 1999. [http://www.lausti.com/articles/languages/finnishlanguage.htm] (02/2013)
F. Karlsson, Grammatica finlandese. (traduzione italiana di Karlsson, Fred Finnish. An essential grammar, Routledge, 2008) Milano, Hoepli, 2013.
L. Dal Pozzo, Reconsidering the Finnish Possessive System, Annali di Ca’ Foscari XLVI, I, 2007.
P. Loikala, Grammatica finlandese, Bologna, Clueb, 2004.
E. Uotila-Arcelli, La lingua finlandese, Helsinki, SKS, 1975.
D. Abondolo, The Uralic languages. London – New York, Routledge, 2006 [1998]
G. Manzelli, Il gruppo baltofinnico (finnico del Baltico); Il gruppo ugrico (l'ungherese), in E. Banfi (a cura di), La formazione dell'Europa linguistica. Le lingue d'Europa tra la fine del I e del II millenio, La Nuova Italia, Scandicci 1993, pp. 498-516 e 531-544.
Learning Objectives
The obejctives of the course are mainly two:
- to introduce the student to the main notions in L1, L2 and bilingual acquisition with particular reference to Finno-Ugric languages;
- to discuss the main morpho-syntactic characteristics of Finnish langauge in comparison with Hungarian (and other Finno-Ugric langauges)
Teaching Methods
frontal lessons; use of the e-learning platform Moodle.
Type of Assessment
oral presentation; final exam.
Course program
The first part of the course will be devoted to second language acquisition with particular reference to Finno-Ugric languages.The second part of teh course will be devoted to the discussion of some relevant morpho-syntacti properties of Finnish (in comparison with Hungarian). In the last part the observed differences and similarities will be discussed in light of text samples.