Latin I
Code
711091144
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Estudos Portugueses
Credits
6
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
General objectives:
By the end of this introductory semester students are expected to acquired the basik knowledge of morphology, phonetics, and syntax that allow simple Latin texts analysis and translation.
Specific objectives:
a) To acquire Latin language proper understanding structure knowledge and, subsequently, to be able to have the reading capability of basic enunciations as simple as maxims and proverbs. (45%)
b) To acquire skills to master basic lexical, morphological and syntactic structures that allow the production of simple phrases. (20%)
c) To apprehend pronunciation rules in connection with the phonetics study. (10%)
d) To establish relationships between Latin and the Romance languages, particularly Portuguese, concerning both the fundamental lexicon and some morphological and syntactic structures. (20%)
e) To connect elements of Roman civilization present in the texts analyzed and cultural practices still recognizable in the Western culture. (5%)
Prerequisites
None
Subject matter
1- Linguistic aspects
a) Latin language history: Indo-European matrix, Latin and major Italic groups; Latin structure and cases fixation.
b) Phonetics: Latin alphabet evolution; different Latin pronunciations, Latin prosodic elements. Vowel and syllabic quantities, the basic phonetic phenomena: ablaut, rhotacism, assimilation, the dissimilation, the crasis and syncope.
c) Morphology: notions of lexeme, morpheme, root, theme, characteristic and case; the gender, number and case; the nominal flexion of the substantive; verbal flexion: categories of voice, mood, aspect, tense, people; invariable words: prepositions, adverbs, conjunctions, interjections, conjunctions and coordinative purposes and subordinate temporal and causal conjunctions.
d) Syntax: syntax cases, the proposition words order; the Latin phrase: simple and independent propositions and parataxis.
2- Lexicology: degrees of root alternation in some words formation.
3- Analysis and translation of original simple texts.
Bibliography
Seleta organizada pela professora distribuída ao longo do semestre./ Reader organized by the teacher, distributed throughout the semester.
Dicionários / Dictionaries
FERREIRA, A.G., Dicionário Latim- Português. Porto, Porto Editora.
Gramáticas /Grammars
ALMENDRA, M. A. ; FIGUIEREDO, J.N., Compêndio de Gramática Latina. Porto. Porto Editora
FREIRE, A. Gramática da Língua Latina. Braga, Bib. da F. de Braga
COLLART, J., Histoire de la langue latine. Col. Que sais-je?, Paris, P.U.F.,1970.
FARIA, Ernesto. Fonética histórica do latim. Rio de Janeiro, Livraria Académica, 1957. (Vide capítulo sobre pronúncia restaurada) [752 LGT]
MAROUZEAU, J. La prononciation du latin. Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1980. [1595 LGT]
MEILLET, A. Esquisse dune histoire de la langue latine. Paris, hachette, 1952. [1045 LL]
ROCHA PEREIRA, M. H. Estudos de história da cultura clássica. Cultura Romana (vol. II), Lisboa. F.C.G., 2002 (3ª ed.).
Obs. Quando existente, refere-se a cota da biblioteca da FCSH.
Teaching method
Classes will have an eminently theoretical-practical nature. A direct learning method with a progressive approach will be used. Morphology, phonetic and syntax subjects are presented in a gradual way by the teacher. After each expositive lecture are carried through practical exercises in classroom. 1 weekly hour guided by the teacher is dedicated to the techniques of translation of texts of increasing difficulty and to the good use of the dictionary. The weekly homework (with optional deliver for individual correction) as well as the interpellation during classes allow the student to verify his difficulties and make possible a continuous feed-back, in order to adjust learning to the profile of the class.
Evaluation method
A system of continuous EVALUATION without final exams (except students protected from some special regime) will be adopted. The participation in classes, the homework quality (35%), the results of 2 frequencies (50%) and the attendance (15%) shall be taken into account.