The Italian Language Today

acceptable 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 fatto feminine Florentine forms gerund gliela imperfect impersonal indirect object infinitive intervocalic Italian dialects Italian language Italy kaza l'ha lavoro lettera a Ugo libro Ligurian lingua linguistic main clause mangiato masculine metaphony national language Neapolitan normally northern noun palatal parlare partire partito passive past historic past participle person plural person singular phonological preceding preposition preso pronoun pronunciation proparoxytones province of Bari Puglia purists refers reflexive scrivere a Ugo scrivere una lettera scriverla sentences sentito southern Italy speakers speech spelling stato stem 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 visto scrivere vowel Vulgar Latin words