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Syllabus Introduction to the structure of Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) - 41451
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Last update 11-09-2022
HU Credits: 4

Degree/Cycle: 1st degree (Bachelor)

Responsible Department: Linguistics

Semester: Yearly

Teaching Languages: Hebrew

Campus: Mt. Scopus

Course/Module Coordinator: Prof. Aldina Quintana-Rodriguez

Coordinator Email: aldina.quintana@mail.huji.ac.il

Coordinator Office Hours: Wednesday, 14:15-15:15 (By appointment by email).
The lecturer will not answer questions by email.

Teaching Staff:
Prof Aldina Quintana-Rodriguez

Course/Module description:
This course is a linguistic introduction of modern Judeo-Spanish (Ladino), which includes its most elementary structures, as well as some links with its history and with medieval Spanish and other Romance languages.

Course/Module aims:
Acquisition of skills by students so that they can deal with texts in Judeo-Spanish and know the principles on which its language structure is based.

Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
• Understand texts of simple until intermediate difficulty.
• Identify the common morphological forms as well as some syntactic patterns, and translate a text with the aid of a dictionary and a grammar.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the phonological, morphological, and syntactic rules governing Judeo-Spanish.

Attendance requirements(%):
100

Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: Lectures, reading, practical exercises, analysis of parts of speech and sentences, texts translation, debate, final Take-home.

Course/Module Content:
• Judeo-Spanish today
• A brief introduction to History of Judeo-Spanish
• Phonetics and phonology, morphology
• Simple sentence
• Word order
• SE constructions
• Clitics
• SER and ESTAR
• Personal A
• Relative clauses and pronouns, et cetera
• Reading, translation and analysis of short texts.

Required Reading:
Dictionaries
• Djudeoespanyola – ladino durante todas las Epokas Diksionario Amplio Istoriko. Por el Dr. Avner Perez
http://folkmasa.org/milon/pmilonh.php
• Koen-Sarano, Matilda, Diksionario Ladino-Ebreo – Ebreo-Ladino, Yerushalyim: Zack 2009.
• Bunis, David M., A lexicon of the Hebrew and Aramaic elements in Modern Judezmo, Jerusalem: Magnes/Misgav Jerushalayim 1993.

Corpus
• CoDiAJe - Ladino Corpus. On-line:
http://corptedig-glif.upf.edu/teitok/codiaje/index.php?action&eq;home

Others
Specific readings distribute weekly through Moodle.

Additional Reading Material:
No.

Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 5 %
Participation in Tutorials 25 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 20 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 50 %
Take-home

Additional information:
* A meeting with the teacher at least once a year during the office hours is mandatory for each participant (5%).
 
Students needing academic accommodations based on a disability should contact the Center for Diagnosis and Support of Students with Learning Disabilities, or the Office for Students with Disabilities, as early as possible, to discuss and coordinate accommodations, based on relevant documentation.
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