The Italian Language Today

Voorkant
Routledge, 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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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
Short Bibliography
247
Table of main symbols used
250
Index
251
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Over de auteur (2013)

Anna Laura Lepschy, Giulio Lepschy

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