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 3
... Phonology 2 Spelling 3 The article 4 Prepositions with the article 5 Conjunctions 6 Nouns and adjectives 7 Comparatives and superlatives 8 Adverbs 9 Personal pronouns 10 Possessives 11 Interrogatives and relatives 12 Negatives 13 ...
... Phonology 2 Spelling 3 The article 4 Prepositions with the article 5 Conjunctions 6 Nouns and adjectives 7 Comparatives and superlatives 8 Adverbs 9 Personal pronouns 10 Possessives 11 Interrogatives and relatives 12 Negatives 13 ...
Pagina 8
... (phonological units which are distinctively different); phonemic transcriptions appear between slants. Accent marks are placed directly above the vowel rather than at the beginning of the syllable because syllable divisions do not ...
... (phonological units which are distinctively different); phonemic transcriptions appear between slants. Accent marks are placed directly above the vowel rather than at the beginning of the syllable because syllable divisions do not ...
Pagina 11
... phonology very different from standard English, are mostly dying out; they survive in the main in isolated or peripheral areas, particularly in the speech of the elderly. Elsewhere, especially in the south of England, the differences ...
... phonology very different from standard English, are mostly dying out; they survive in the main in isolated or peripheral areas, particularly in the speech of the elderly. Elsewhere, especially in the south of England, the differences ...
Pagina 12
... phonological systems. The distinction between Italian and dialect has no firm correlation with social hierarchy, because although ignorance of Italian is limited to the bottom of the scale, the use of dialect is not, and cuts right ...
... phonological systems. The distinction between Italian and dialect has no firm correlation with social hierarchy, because although ignorance of Italian is limited to the bottom of the scale, the use of dialect is not, and cuts right ...
Pagina 13
... phonological differences which allow one to differentiate quite clearly between the two types of dialect (local vs. regional: with and without metaphony (see chapter III, pp. 50—1) and with different forms of andare) and the two types ...
... phonological differences which allow one to differentiate quite clearly between the two types of dialect (local vs. regional: with and without metaphony (see chapter III, pp. 50—1) and with different forms of andare) and the two types ...
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