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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
Pagina 14
... language has noted that a speaker may try to pronounce a double consonant , but succeed only in uttering one and a half ) 2 , nor bet- ween the affricates [ ts dz ] of the national and the sibilants [ sz ] of the regional standard ...
... language has noted that a speaker may try to pronounce a double consonant , but succeed only in uttering one and a half ) 2 , nor bet- ween the affricates [ ts dz ] of the national and the sibilants [ sz ] of the regional standard ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
Inhoudsopgave
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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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