The Italian Language TodayPsychology Press, 1992 - 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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Inhoudsopgave
Preface to the second edition 57 | 5 |
Part One The Linguistic Situation in Italy | 9 |
Italian Today | 11 |
A Historical View | 19 |
Italian Dialects | 41 |
Varieties of Italian | 62 |
Part Two The Grammar of Italian | 87 |
An Outline | 89 |
Verbs | 133 |
Sixteen Points of Syntax | 161 |
The use of the article | 173 |
Evaluative suffixes | 176 |
Compound and juxtaposed nouns | 183 |
Position of adjectives | 190 |
Agreement of adjectives | 192 |
Position of adverbs | 194 |
Spelling | 95 |
The article | 102 |
Prepositions with the article | 103 |
Conjunctions | 105 |
Nouns and adjectives | 108 |
Comparatives and superlatives | 112 |
Adverbs | 114 |
Personal pronouns | 115 |
Possessives | 122 |
Interrogatives and relatives | 123 |
Negatives | 126 |
Demonstratives | 127 |
Indefinites | 128 |
Numerals | 130 |
Some constructions withwithout prepositions | 196 |
Agreement of past participles | 209 |
Clitic clusters | 212 |
Constructions with causative and perception predicates | 214 |
The use of si | 220 |
The use of indicative past tenses | 228 |
The use of the subjunctive | 232 |
Sequence of tenses | 238 |
The use of the conditional | 241 |
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Table of main symbols used | 250 |
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