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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... dictionaries ( we have not , for instance , discussed in detail adverbs , conjunctions and preposi- tions ; but as dictionaries do not usually give adequate information on constructions of verb + preposition , we have listed these quite ...
... dictionaries ( we have not , for instance , discussed in detail adverbs , conjunctions and preposi- tions ; but as dictionaries do not usually give adequate information on constructions of verb + preposition , we have listed these quite ...
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... Dictionary ( which presents RP ) the different pronunciations recorded for so many words , and by comparing the changes incorporated in successive editions . This dictionary was meant to be descriptive rather than prescriptive ...
... Dictionary ( which presents RP ) the different pronunciations recorded for so many words , and by comparing the changes incorporated in successive editions . This dictionary was meant to be descriptive rather than prescriptive ...
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... dictionary devoted to any modern language was the Italian Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca ( first edition 1612 ) . Largely through the influence of L. Salviati , the Crusca took its inspiration from Bembo's theories . Its ...
... dictionary devoted to any modern language was the Italian Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca ( first edition 1612 ) . Largely through the influence of L. Salviati , the Crusca took its inspiration from Bembo's theories . Its ...
Pagina 24
... dictionary ( 1839 ) instead of the language of the Crusca . Manzoni greatly overrated the importance of dictionaries ; in a report to the Minister of Education in 1868 ( Dell'unità della lingua e dei mezzi di diffonderla ' On the Unity ...
... dictionary ( 1839 ) instead of the language of the Crusca . Manzoni greatly overrated the importance of dictionaries ; in a report to the Minister of Education in 1868 ( Dell'unità della lingua e dei mezzi di diffonderla ' On the Unity ...
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... dictionary , Ascoli pointed out that this was not the way national languages were formed . He drew his examples from the linguistic history of France , England and Germany . In France the dialect of Paris had become the national ...
... dictionary , Ascoli pointed out that this was not the way national languages were formed . He drew his examples from the linguistic history of France , England and Germany . In France the dialect of Paris had become the national ...
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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