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Latin : langue et philologie
Course teacher(s)
Emmanuel DUPRAZ (Coordinator)ECTS credits
5
Language(s) of instruction
french
Course content
Translation exercises from Latin into French and from French into Latin. Analyses of syntactic, semantic and pragmatic topics. Case studies in linguistic history and in lexical morphology.
Objectives (and/or specific learning outcomes)
Reaching an overall control of the Latin language, especially in its diachronic dimension. Using philological methods. Getting accustomed with translating from Latin into French.
To reach overall control of the basic knowledge and to learn the research methods of the discipline. To compare different synchronic stages of the language. To compare different linguistic systems.
Prerequisites and Corequisites
Required and corequired courses
Teaching methods and learning activities
The course includes regular exercices (prepared at home by students), in particular translations from Latin into French and from French into Latin.
References, bibliography, and recommended reading
Useful handbooks: Ernout (Alfred) and Thomas (François), 19532, Syntaxe latine, Paris ; Burkard (Thorsten) and Schauer (Markus), 20125, Lehrbuch der lateinischen Syntax und Semantik, Darmstadt.
Course notes
- Université virtuelle
Contribution to the teaching profile
Control of Latin language and literature. Development of a method of linguistic analysis of the texts.
Other information
Contacts
Bureau AZ.5.117 Email: emmanuel.dupraz@ulb.ac.be
Campus
Solbosch
Evaluation
Method(s) of evaluation
- written examination
written examination
Written exam at the end of each quadrimester, both for the exercises and for the theoretical part.
Mark calculation method (including weighting of intermediary marks)
Theoretical part, first quadrimeter: 25%; theoretical part, second quadrimeter: 25%; exercises, first quadrimeter: 25%; exercises, second quadrimeter: 25%.
Language(s) of evaluation
- french