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 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%).
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