Teacher
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CIGNI Costanza
(syllabus)
The course covers the following topics: Germanic languages in the past and present; Linguistic comparison, Germanic and concept of proto-language reconstruction; groups of Germanic languages and their features; phonological and morphological innovations of the Germanic language and its groups and subgroups; linguistic and cultural contacts in Antiquity and in the Middle Ages; brief historical profile of the Germanic tribes; Germanic mythology; Christianisation; runes, alphabets and literacy development; comparative analysis of some Paternoster versions in old English and old-high German.
(reference books)
Textbooks -S. Leonardi – E. Morlicchio, La filologia germanica e le lingue moderne, il Mulino, Bologna 2009 otherwise: -N. Francovich Onesti, Filologia germanica. Lingue e culture dei germani antichi, Carocci, Roma 2002 (rist. 2015). Moreover are required: for attending students: -teaching materials available on the learning platform. for non-attending students: -M. Battaglia, Medioevo volgare germanico, Unipress, Pisa 2014
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