The Italian Language TodayRoutledge, 5 nov 2013 - 260 pagina's 'a truly authoritative short Italian grammar ... possibly the best concise account now available in any language' - The Times Literary Supplement 'a stimulating and scholarly introduction to Italian for the serious student. It contains a great deal of original material and the authors' unequivocal attitudes to the linguistic reality of modern Italy...make it important that it should be read and discussed by Italianists everywhere' - The Times Higher Education Supplement 'a major new contribution to the literature in English...it will be an essential part of the linguistic formation of every Italianist' - The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies Recently revised to bring it completed up-to-date, this book remains a unique source on the Italian language as it is actually spoken and written in Italy. The combination of historical perspective and contemporary grammar make it particularly useful for Italian linguistics. |
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Pagina 7
... language really exists. The first part of the book gives an introduction to ... language. Apart from the basic outlines, our coverage is selective: we have ... national standard, we have followed northern usage, which seems to us to ...
... language really exists. The first part of the book gives an introduction to ... language. Apart from the basic outlines, our coverage is selective: we have ... national standard, we have followed northern usage, which seems to us to ...
Pagina 12
... national standard for a regional variety, as substituting the speech of the middle class for the speech of the working class. The class connotations of accent emerge very clearly in the field of politics, trade-unionism, and in the ...
... national standard for a regional variety, as substituting the speech of the middle class for the speech of the working class. The class connotations of accent emerge very clearly in the field of politics, trade-unionism, and in the ...
Pagina 13
... national language and (b) the local dialect there is (c) a more inward looking variety of the national language (regional Italian); this is comparable to the phenomenon very much alive in England, of standard English spoken with a local ...
... national language and (b) the local dialect there is (c) a more inward looking variety of the national language (regional Italian); this is comparable to the phenomenon very much alive in England, of standard English spoken with a local ...
Pagina 14
... language has noted that a speaker may try to pronounce a double consonant, but succeed only in uttering one and a half)1, nor between the affricates [ts dz] of the national and the sibilants [s z] of the regional standard. Perhaps one ...
... language has noted that a speaker may try to pronounce a double consonant, but succeed only in uttering one and a half)1, nor between the affricates [ts dz] of the national and the sibilants [s z] of the regional standard. Perhaps one ...
Pagina 15
... language or in the dialect, either in one variety or in another. As we said, the Martian linguist, trying to be ... national standard), and chooses, when a choice has to be made, a northern Italian standard, which has acquired more ...
... language or in the dialect, either in one variety or in another. As we said, the Martian linguist, trying to be ... national standard), and chooses, when a choice has to be made, a northern Italian standard, which has acquired more ...
Inhoudsopgave
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Part Two The Grammar of Italian | 87 |
Short Bibliography | 247 |
Table of main symbols used | 250 |
Subject Index | 251 |
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abbia acceptable accusative adjective adverb andare arrivato casa chapter clitic clusters common comprate constructions corresponds dative definite article detto diphthong due penne English examples expressions faccio scrivere fare feminine Florentine forms gender gerund grammar hanno imperfect impersonal indirect object infinitive intervocalic Italian dialects Italian language Italy letter libro Ligurian lingua linguistic main clause main verb mangiato masculine meaning metaphony Milan national language Neapolitan normally northern Note noun palatal parlare partire passive past historic past participle person plural person singular phonological preceding predicate preposition preso pronoun pronunciation proparoxytones province of Bari Puglia purists ragazza refers reflexive scrivere a Ugo scrivere una lettera sentences sentito southern Italy speakers speech spelling stressed subjunctive subordinate clause suffixes syllable syntactic doubling take the auxiliary third person tion tive Tuscan unstressed usage varieties of Italian Venetian venire venuto vista scrivere visto vowel words