Syllabus Information

5.1. Methodological overview

See "Learning activities" and "Syllabus".

More information will be provided on the first day of class.

5.2. Learning tasks

• Theoretical lectures.
• Practical lectures.
• Individual work.
• Personal study.
• Assessment activities.

5.3. Syllabus

27817 - Spanish Language

1. Fundamental linguistic concepts. 1.1. Language, language systems and linguistics. 1.2. The concept of language system understood as a system of symbols organised on different levels. 1.3. Spanish as a historical language. The Spanish-speaking community. Varieties of Spanish. The exemplary rule: exemplary rules.

2. The level of expression. Phonetics and phonology. Sounds and phonemes. 2.1. The production of speech. 2.2. The classification of the sounds of Spanish: vowels and consonants. 2.3. Accent and intonation: suprasegmental features of Spanish. 2.4. Phonological aspects of vowels and consonants in Spanish.

3. The morphological analysis level. Morphology: definition and demarcation. Morphological analysis units. Word classes. 3.1. The noun and its flexive morphemes. The adjective and its flexive morphemes. Descriptive and normative aspects. 3.2. Deixis. The article in Spanish. The pronoun and classes of pronouns in Spanish. Descriptive and normative aspects. 3.3. The verb and its morphemes. Descriptive and normative aspects. 3.4. The adverb, the preposition, the conjunction and the interjection in Spanish. Descriptive and normative aspects.

4. The syntactic analysis level. Syntactic relationships. Syntactic units. 4.1. The structure of the simple sentence in Spanish. Subject and predicate. The structure of the predicate: core and adjacent modifiers. Problems concerning the determination of complements: direct, indirect and circumstantial complements. The attribute. Descriptive and normative aspects. Classification of the simple sentence. Typology. 4.2. Classification of the compound sentence. Juxtaposition and coordination. Subordination (nominal, adjective and adverbial). Problems in adverbial subordination. Descriptive and normative aspects.

5. The lexical analysis. Semantic units and relationships. The study of the lexicon. 5.1. Word formation in Spanish.  Composition, morphological derivation and parasynthesis.  5.2. Lexicon and dictionary. Lexicography. Classes of dictionaries. 5.3. Constitutive elements of the Spanish lexicon. Etymology.  Loan words from other languages.

5.4. Course planning and calendar

See the academic calendar of the University of Zaragoza (http://academico.unizar.es/calendario-academico/calendario) and the website of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts (Schedule of classes: https://fyl.unizar.es/horario-de-clases#overlay-context=horario-de-clases;Examination schedule: https://fyl.unizar.es/calendario-de-examenes#overlay-context=)

More information will be provided on the first day of class.

5.5. Bibliography and recommended resources