Understanding of the historical evolution of Italian, of its grammatical structures, of its varieties and of its relationship with other languages. Mastery of basic phenomenology and related terminology. Skills in linguistic and grammatical analysis of a text. At the end of the course, students will be able to know the key moments in the history of the Italian language, the linguistic characteristics of its structures and its main varieties; to identify the linguistic and formal peculiarities of the texts; to describe them according to the appropriate terminology and to interpret the connotative values; to make adequate use of linguistic and grammatical resources to produce texts independently.