Modern Languages and Literatures 55.03-55.11 - Introduction to Romance Linguistics

Institution:

CUNY Brooklyn College

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Description:

3 hours; 3 credits Study of major areas of Romance linguistics, with an emphasis on French, Italian, and Spanish. Historical development, philology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Students will acquire metalinguistic knowledge of the target language and will learn the basics of grammatical analysis: constituent structures; inflectional, derivational, and constituent morphemes; agreement system; syntactic categories and grammatical relations within a sentence; phrase structure rules; cases and complements; tense sequence. The course will also address the most salient phenomena of the evolution from classical and vulgar Latin. Attention will be given to the most recent evolutions (Francophonie, influence of English, regionalization of Latin American Spanish). Students will be encouraged to pursue research in a particular language and area of interest. Taught in English. Final project in the target language. 55.03 French 55.07 Italian 55.11 Spanish Prerequisite: Language 11.1 or 11.12 or 17.50 or permission of the chairperson.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.brooklyn.cuny.edu

Phone Number:

(718) 951-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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