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Pagina 14
... Florentine , ought to appear at all in this example . Florentine features , such as initial voiceless affri- cates , as in [ tsio ] , intervocalic voiceless sibilants as in [ kåsa ] , or syn- tactic doubling as in [ a kkåsa ] are not ...
... Florentine , ought to appear at all in this example . Florentine features , such as initial voiceless affri- cates , as in [ tsio ] , intervocalic voiceless sibilants as in [ kåsa ] , or syn- tactic doubling as in [ a kkåsa ] are not ...
Pagina 16
... Florentine , and it is this which ought to be learnt by foreigners - and by Italians . Cutting across geographical subdivisions ( local varieties of Italian ) there is another set of partitions into different spheres of linguistic usage ...
... Florentine , and it is this which ought to be learnt by foreigners - and by Italians . Cutting across geographical subdivisions ( local varieties of Italian ) there is another set of partitions into different spheres of linguistic usage ...
Pagina 22
... Florentine dialect in which Dante wrote his Comedy became the basis of a national literary language partly through the excellence of the literature written in it during the fourteenth century , partly because of general historical ...
... Florentine dialect in which Dante wrote his Comedy became the basis of a national literary language partly through the excellence of the literature written in it during the fourteenth century , partly because of general historical ...
Pagina 23
... Florentine but has different varieties , and in a dialect , as for example Ruzzante's plays in Old Paduan and Ve- neziano's poetry in Sicilian . From then on literature in Italian followed a path of rhetorical preoccupations , of ...
... Florentine but has different varieties , and in a dialect , as for example Ruzzante's plays in Old Paduan and Ve- neziano's poetry in Sicilian . From then on literature in Italian followed a path of rhetorical preoccupations , of ...
Pagina 24
... Florentine . Manzoni wrote his novel three times , trying as best he could the third time ( 1840 ) to make it conform to contemporary Florentine . He did not fully succeed , partly because his knowledge of Florentine was insufficient ...
... Florentine . Manzoni wrote his novel three times , trying as best he could the third time ( 1840 ) to make it conform to contemporary Florentine . He did not fully succeed , partly because his knowledge of Florentine was insufficient ...
Inhoudsopgave
5 | |
9 | |
11 | |
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 |
Short Bibliography | 247 |
Table of main symbols used | 250 |
Index | 251 |
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