This is the workspace of the course in fall 2009. Participants Photo of some Italian-Hungarian team participants
Information: dr. Anne Tamm, PhD (anne.tamm at unifi.it)
Link to the Hungarian page Photo of some Hungarian team participants - link to the Dutch page - Photo of some Dutch-Hungarian team participants
Informazioni per gli Studenti dell'Area ugrofinnica dell'Università di Firenze
(http://www.unifi.it/areaugrofinnica/, coord. Prof. Dr. Beatrice Tottossy)
Il Laboratorio di Studi di Filologia Ugrofinnica propone un approccio pluridisciplinare (linguistico, filologico, antropologico-culturale, storico e critico-letterario, traduttologico e interculturale) allo studio delle lingue e civiltà ugrofinniche. Nell'a.a. 2009/2010 si sperimenta l'insegnamento integrato delle seguenti discipline:
B004867 -- Finno-Ugric philology "Filologia ugrofinnica" 6 ECTS (Anne Tamm, Ferenc Havas)
B004667 -- Finno-Ugric languages "Lingue ugrofinniche" 12 ECTS (30 theory + min. 120 practical language: Hungarian and/or Finnish, extra Estonian ("estone: sperimentale") - Beatrice Tottossy, Anne Tamm, and the language teachers of the respective languages
B005284 -- Finno-Ugric languages "Lingue ugrofinniche": Hungarian (Lingua ungherese), 1 - 12 ECTS: 30 hours theory + min. 120 hours practical language: Hungarian - Beatrice Tottossy and the language teachers
B011036 -- Finno-Ugric languages "Lingue ugrofinniche": Hungarian (Lingua ungherese), 2 - 12 ECTS: 30 hours theory + min. 120 hours practical language: Hungarian - ELTE: joint courses
B010966 -- Laboratorio di lingua ungherese - Katalin Szili and the language teacher Andrea Pap
B010964 -- Laboratorio di lingua finlandese - Lena Dal Pozzo, the language teachers
L'attività didattica dei docenti titolari delle discipline sopra elencate, e dei loro collaboratori, s'inserisce nello sviluppo del modello di formazione che, promosso dall'Area ugrofinnica di Firenze, da quest'anno ha raggiunto la modalità di Joint Degree con Budapest ELTE (nei due cicli BA e MA). L'insegnamento integrato, qui proposto, costituisce un nucleo dello sviluppo ulteriore, in programma, di creare un network europeo di formazione negli studi sulle lingue e civiltà ungherese, finlandese e estone. Dr. Anne Tamm, docente - oltre che a Firenze (vedi sopra) e all'ELTE (BMVD-063/2) - anche nell'Università di Szeged (BAVÁL1-173, FGRSK061-12, FGRSA061-11, FGRMAS802-2) e nell'Università Protestante Karoli Gaspar di Budapest (BMR82862), ha predisposto questo workspace ovvero laboratorio che ci permetterà importanti sviluppi nella direzione di ulteriori studi e applicazioni integrati e comparativi. Buon lavoro a tutti! (bt)
Specifications:
Academic year 2009/2010, fall semester.
Place of the lectures: Aula 10/A, 4th floor, Via Santa Reparata, 93, 50129 Firenze
1st part given by:
dr. Anne Tamm
Focus: The Finno-Ugric Languages among the World's Languages -- Poster in English
Guest Lecturer dr. Reili Argus, CV, (Erasmus)
Schedule of meetings:
October 22: 11-13 + 15-18
October 23: 11-13 + 17-19
October 26: 10-13
October 28: 11-13
2nd part given by: Prof. dr. Ferenc Havas
Focus: Typology
Guest Lecturer Nikolett Gulyas (Joint Mobility)
Place of the lectures: Aula 10/A, 4th floor, Via Santa Reparata, 93, 50129 Firenze
Schedule of meetings:
October 28-29-30: 15-19 (Havas)
November 4-5-6: 15-19 (Gulyas)
1) 1st part given by: dr. Anne Tamm
This course contains 30 hours of lectures. The course will be given in English. The course slides are in English and Hungarian (parallel slides).
URL e-learning workspace: http://filologiaugrofinnica.pbworks.com/
Here is a link to the instructions on how to use the pbworks workspace functions.
URL video transmission: Our classes are available live online. The link to the virtual classroom can be found here
In order to access the virtual classroom, enter your name on the website and hit an "enter" instead of a password. The location may change, watch this page for updates.
Assessment: Home assignments and participation (50%). Paper (50%).
By the end of this course you will
- be familiar with the place of the Uralic and Finno-Ugric languages in the diversity of languages of the world
- have developed some understanding of how to use linguistic databases on the Internet and find the Finno-Ugric data
- be familiar with the modern linguistic approaches (comparative and typological) and apply linguistic tools in the analysis of Finno-Ugric data
- be able to connect the analysis of the Finno-Ugric data to a database structure.
- For the exam material, ask anne.tamm at unifi.it, and also the responsible persons for the teams, Melinda, Andrea or Klavdia for specifications.
Class schedule
| Dates |
Topic |
Material |
Assignment
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| Oct. 22 |
Introduction to the acquisition of language, the acquisition of Estonian |
Powerpoint 1, Powerpoint 2
Bibliography of the session
|
Reili Argus
Cross-cultural differences and languages. Differences between cultures in the interaction between mothers and children.
Language acquisition, language acquisition in Estonian.
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| Oct 23 |
Introduction to modern approaches to language diversity. |
Class 1
Powerpoints 1, powerpoints 2.
an Italian link
|
The assignment for Monday is set in RED.
0. Create a workspace for yourself, fill in the table about yourself under the link "Participants".
1. How many languages are there?
2. What is there in http://wals.info ?
3. Choose a language you know well and add it to the last cell of the table under the link "Participants".
4. Choose a Uralic language. What can you find on it on the Internet, Youtube, etc?
Use the following links:
- http://www.ethnologue.com/web.asp
- What do you find about Hungarian/Finnish/Estonian/Italian/one Uralic language there?
- wals.info
- Where is the information on Your Chosen Language there?
- Find the link in the WALS.
- Add the link to to your personal page in the workspace
- always copy the source page, or the reference to the book if applicable.
|
|
Oct.
23
|
Modern approaches to language comparison. What are the differences between Asian and European languages? Finno-Ugric languages in the context of Asian and European languages. |
Class 2
Extra classroom material for specific topics, the languages between Asian and European. Finnish, Finnish and Estonian, Hungarian.
|
1. What is the World Atlas of Linguistic Structures, which you can find under http://wals.info ?
2. Which Uralic languages are included in the database?
- Which Italian dialects are included as separate "languages" in the database?
3. Video (optional, for those who want to know about language diversity in the world)
- check if somebody has chosen it already, if yes, choose another one
- write the title on your page,
- give a summary of its contents
- did you learn something interesting from it (if not, choose another video)
|
| Oct. 26 |
Dynamic processes in the Uralic languages. Bilingualism. The Uralic language tree. Pidgins, creole languages, sign languages, sign languages in the Finno-Ugric speaking area.
|
Class 3
Extra classroom material (on and by a bilingual child) for specific topics and languages.
Case, in Finnish
Negation.
|
1. What are the countries where the Uralic languages are spoken?
2. The chapters of the World Atlas of Linguistic Structures on the Internet typically represent grammatical features of the languages of the world. Is your language described? Copy the following table on your web page and fill it in with the data that you find in wals.info.
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http://wals.info/feature/49
The title of the chapter is ...
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The value of this feature in language (your small Uralic language) ... is ....(../missing) |
if the value for .... (your small Uralic language) is missing, then the value for Finnsh/Hungarian is .... |
|
http://wals.info/feature/58
|
... |
|
|
http://wals.info/feature/121
The title of the chapter is ...
|
... |
|
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For beginners:
http://wals.info/feature/113
For advanced and bonus:
http://wals.info/feature/114
The title of the chapter is ...
|
... |
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BONUS: Please provide a short description about the feature.
|
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Oct.
28
|
The WALS. Typology and databases. Comparative syntax and databases. Specific topics in WALS. Collaborative and individual reports on the chosen languages |
Class 4
Extra classroom material for specific topics on databases and the WALS.
datapoints
languages
readme
values
features
special Estonian
special Estonian short
special comparative
ppt databases
ppt on WALS structure
database primer
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Oct.
28-30
|
Historical typology (Prof. Havas) |
Powerpoints,
bibliography
|
Describe the selected morphological features of the language as represented in the databases, and improve the description by using the sources. |
|
Nov.
4-6
|
Word order typology (Nikolett Gulyás) |
Powerpoints,
1st powerpoint,
2nd powerpoint,
3rd powerpoint,
4th powerpoint,
5th powerpoint,
6th powerpoint
bibliography
|
Home assignment:
1. compare the word order features in WALS (http://wals.info) and in the PNS (slides in the 3rd, 4th, 5th powerpoint)
2. select those features that are included in both places
3. use the WALS: search data from Estonian only for those features that can be foun in both places
4. that is all :)
Questions, comments, etc: tucsigulyas@gmail.com
Describe the selected syntactic structures of the language as represented in the databases, and improve the description by using the sources.
Compare the word order features of the PNS (cf. 3rd class) and the features that are discussed in WALS. Collect data from WALS referring to Finnish and Estonian language.
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Obligatoty readings
1) Per studenti di I anno (esame: Lingue ugrofinniche, ord. ex 270) la verifica comprende gli appunti di lezione, la pratica online e l'introduzione del volume di G. Bereczki. Altro materiale di studio verrà consegnato durante i corsi parralleli di lingua e di lettorato.
2) Per studenti di II anno (esame di Filologia ugrofinnica e/o di Lingue ugrofinniche, ord. ex 270):
One chapter of Abondolo, D. (ed.) 1997. The Uralic Languages. London, New York: Routledge.
Bereczki, G. 1998. Introduzione a Fondamenti di linguistica ugrofinnica Udine, CLAV.
3) Per studenti di III anno (ord. ex 270 o ex 509, Erasmus, Joint Degree)
One chapter of Abondolo, D. (ed.) 1997. The Uralic Languages. London, New York: Routledge.
Bereczki, G. 1998. Introduzione a Fondamenti di linguistica ugrofinnica Udine, CLAV.
+ 2 testi da scegliere dai testi 'raccomandati'
4) Per studenti di percorsi magistrali (ord. ex 270, ex 509, ord. quadriennale, Erasmus)
Abondolo, D. (ed.) 1997. The Uralic Languages. London, New York: Routledge.
Bereczki, G. 1998. Introduzione a Fondamenti di linguistica ugrofinnica Udine, CLAV.
+ schedatura di 4 testi da scegliere dai testi 'raccomandati'.
(Un eventuale percorso personalizzato deve essere concordato con uno dei docenti titolari.)
Recommended readings (subject to some changes)
In English
Blake, Barry J. Case. 2° ed. Cambridge textbooks in linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Comrie, Bernard. Language Universals and Linguistic Typology: Syntax and Morphology. 2° ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.
Dahl, Östen. The Growth and Maintenance of Linguistic Complexity. Studies in language companion series v. 71. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2004.
E. Kiss Katalin. Discourse Configurational Languages. Oxford studies in comparative sytax. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Heine, Bernd. Language Contact and Grammatical Change. Cambridge approaches to language contact. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
---. The Changing Languages of Europe. Oxford linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
---. The Genesis of Grammar: A Reconstruction. Studies in the evolution of language 9. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Dahl Osten. Language Complexity: Typology, Contact, Change. Studies in language companion series v. 94. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Pub. Co, 2008.
Linguistic Universals and Language Change. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Nichols, Johanna. Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
The Atlas of Languages: The Origin and Development of Languages Throughout the World. Rev. ed. New York: Facts On File, 2003.
Abondolo, Daniel. The Uralic Languages. Routledge language family descriptions. New York: Routledge, 1998.
The Use of Databases in Cross-Linguistic Studies. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2009.
The World's Major Languages. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Aronoff et al. Morphological Universals and the Sign Language Type
In German
J. van der Auwera. “Deutsch als eine/die durschschnittseuropäische Sprache”, Unsere sprachlichen Nachbarn in Europa. Die Kontaktbeziehungen zwischen Deutsch und seinen Grenznachbarn. ed. by C. Stolz. Bremen: Brockmeyer.[PDF of MS]
In Italian
Bereczki, G. 1998. Fondamenti di linguistica ugrofinnica, Udine, CLAV.
Gheno, D. 1977. Compendio di filologia ugrofinnica (uralica). Bibliografia introduttiva, Firenze, CLUSF, pp. X-323.
Gheno, D. 1981. “Gli sviluppi della finnougristica dal 1975 ad oggi”, in Ponto-Baltica 1, Firenze, pp. 147-153.
Gheno, D. 1981. “Alle prese con alcuni fenomeni grammaticali delle lingue ugrofinniche”, in Atti del IV convegno interuniversitario dei docenti di lingua e lett. ungherese e di finno-ugristica in Italia, Torino, pp. 263-272.
Hajdú, P. 1992. Introduzione alle lingue uraliche, Torino, Rosenberg & Sellier.
Manzelli, G. 1992. “Le lingue uraliche (ugrofinniche e samoiede)”. 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. 491-548.
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