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This Italian reference grammar provides students, teachers and
others interested in the Italian language with a comprehensive,
accessible and jargon-free guide to the forms and structure of
Italian. Whatever their level of knowledge of the language,
learners of Italian will find this book indispensable: it gives
clear and detailed explanations of everything from the most
elementary facts such as the relation between spelling and
pronunciation, or the forms of the article, to more advanced points
such as the various nuances of the subjunctive. Formal or archaic
discourse is distinguished from informal, everyday usage, and
regionalisms are also indicated where appropriate. The authors have
taken care to make it an easy and illuminating reference tool:
extensive cross-referencing enables readers to quickly find the
information they require, and also stimulates them to discover new,
related facts.
First published in 1991. The existence of morphonology had been the
subject of intense debate in twentieth-century linguistic theory.
Attempts to identify putatively morphonological phenomena had often
foundered on the widespread assumption of a rigid dichotomy between
synchronic morphological structures and the phonetic processes
which historically shared them. With the difficulties of
establishing any role for morphonology clearly identified, the
author introduces a comparative and historical survey of the
morphologization of metaphony in Italian dialects. On the basis of
this the existence is argued of authentic synchronic
'morphonological' interaction between morphological structures and
phonetic processes, such that inflectional paradigms serve to
specify phonetic details of implementation of incipient sound
changes. The circumstances under which such interaction may be
expected to occur are discussed. This book is an important
contribution to our understanding of both morphology and phonology,
taking seriously the implications of abandoning a rigid distinction
between synchronic morphology and diachronic phonology. It
successfully integrates linguistic theory with the analysis of
philological data, and indicates the direction for future research
on morphonology. This detailed study of Italian dialects also
constitutes a valuable addition to the study of Romance
dialectology.
This book makes accessible the major structural features of the
dialects of Italy and emphasises the importance of a detailed
understanding of the dialects for issues in general linguistic
theory. Selected contents include:
* Phonology
* Morphology
* Syntax
* Lexis
* The Dialect Areas * Sociolinguistics of Dialects
Contributors: Paola Benica; Gaetano Berruto; Guglielmo Cinque;
Michela Cennamo; Patrizia Cordin; Thamas Cravens; Marie-Jose
Dalbera Stefanaggi; Franco Fanciullo; Werner Forner; Luciano
Giannelli; John Hajek; Hermann Haller; Robert Hastings; Michael
Jones; Michele Loporcaro; Martin Maiden; Marco Mazzoleni; Zarko
Miljacic; Mair Parry; Cecilia Poletto; Lorenzo Renzi; Lori Repetti;
Giovanni Ruffino; Giampaolo Salvi; Glauco Sanga; Leonardo Savoia;
Alberto Sobrero; Rosanna Sornicola; Tullio Telmon; John Trumper;
Edward Tuttle; Alberto Valvaro; Laura Vanelli; Ugo Vignuzzi; Nigel
Vincent; Irene Vogel.
First published in 1991. The existence of morphonology had been the
subject of intense debate in twentieth-century linguistic theory.
Attempts to identify putatively morphonological phenomena had often
foundered on the widespread assumption of a rigid dichotomy between
synchronic morphological structures and the phonetic processes
which historically shared them. With the difficulties of
establishing any role for morphonology clearly identified, the
author introduces a comparative and historical survey of the
morphologization of metaphony in Italian dialects. On the basis of
this the existence is argued of authentic synchronic
'morphonological' interaction between morphological structures and
phonetic processes, such that inflectional paradigms serve to
specify phonetic details of implementation of incipient sound
changes. The circumstances under which such interaction may be
expected to occur are discussed. This book is an important
contribution to our understanding of both morphology and phonology,
taking seriously the implications of abandoning a rigid distinction
between synchronic morphology and diachronic phonology. It
successfully integrates linguistic theory with the analysis of
philological data, and indicates the direction for future research
on morphonology. This detailed study of Italian dialects also
constitutes a valuable addition to the study of Romance
dialectology.
This book makes accessible the major structural features of the dialects of Italy and emphasises the importance of a detailed understanding of the dialects for issues in general linguistic theory. Selected contents include: * Phonology * Morphology * Syntax * Lexis * The Dialect Areas * Sociolinguistics of Dialects Contributors: Paola Benica; Gaetano Berruto; Guglielmo Cinque; Michela Cennamo; Patrizia Cordin; Thamas Cravens; Marie-Jose Dalbera Stefanaggi; Franco Fanciullo; Werner Forner; Luciano Giannelli; John Hajek; Hermann Haller; Robert Hastings; Michael Jones; Michele Loporcaro; Martin Maiden; Marco Mazzoleni; Zarko Miljacic; Mair Parry; Cecilia Poletto; Lorenzo Renzi; Lori Repetti; Giovanni Ruffino; Giampaolo Salvi; Glauco Sanga; Leonardo Savoia; Alberto Sobrero; Rosanna Sornicola; Tullio Telmon; John Trumper; Edward Tuttle; Alberto Valvaro; Laura Vanelli; Ugo Vignuzzi; Nigel Vincent; Irene Vogel.
A Linguistic History of Italian offers a clear and concise
explanation of why modern Italian grammar has become the way it is.
It focuses on the effects of historical changes on the modern
structure of Italian, revealing patterns and structures which are
not always apparent to those who are only familiar with modern
Italian. Although the book concentrates on the internal history of
the language, the emergence of Italian is considered against the
wider background of the history of italian dialects, and other
external factors such as cultural and social influences are also
examined.
A Linguistic History of Italian offers a clear and concise
explanation of why modern Italian grammar has become the way it is.
It focuses on the effects of historical changes on the modern
structure of Italian, revealing patterns and structures which are
not always apparent to those who are only familiar with modern
Italian. Although the book concentrates on the internal history of
the language, the emergence of Italian is considered against the
wider background of the history of italian dialects, and other
external factors such as cultural and social influences are also
examined.
This Italian reference grammar provides students, teachers and
others interested in the Italian language with a comprehensive,
accessible and jargon-free guide to the forms and structure of
Italian. Whatever their level of knowledge of the language,
learners of Italian will find this book indispensable: it gives
clear and detailed explanations of everything from the most
elementary facts such as the relation between spelling and
pronunciation, or the forms of the article, to more advanced points
such as the various nuances of the subjunctive. Formal or archaic
discourse is distinguished from informal, everyday usage, and
regionalisms are also indicated where appropriate. The authors have
taken care to make it an easy and illuminating reference tool:
extensive cross-referencing enables readers to quickly find the
information they require, and also stimulates them to discover new,
related facts.
This Cambridge History is the most comprehensive survey of the
history of the Romance languages ever published in English. It
engages with new and original topics that reflect wider-ranging
comparative concerns, such as the relation between diachrony and
synchrony, morphosyntactic typology, pragmatic change, the
structure of written Romance, and lexical stability. Volume I is
organized around the two key recurrent themes of persistence
(structural inheritance and continuity from Latin) and innovation
(structural change and loss in Romance). An important and novel
aspect of the volume is that it accords persistence in Romance a
focus in its own right rather than treating it simply as the
background to the study of change. In addition, it explores the
patterns of innovation (including loss) at all linguistic levels.
The result is a rich structural history which marries together data
and theory to produce new perspectives on the structural evolution
of the Romance languages.
The Romance languages and dialects constitute a treasure trove of
linguistic data of profound interest and significance. Data from
the Romance languages have contributed extensively to our current
empirical and theoretical understanding of phonetics, phonology,
morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and
historical linguistics. Written by a team of world-renowned
scholars, this Handbook explores what we can learn about
linguistics from the study of Romance languages, and how the body
of comparative and historical data taken from them can be applied
to linguistic study. It also offers insights into the diatopic and
diachronic variation exhibited by the Romance family of languages,
of a kind unparalleled for any other Western languages. By asking
what Romance languages can do for linguistics, this Handbook is
essential reading for all linguists interested in the insights that
a knowledge of the Romance evidence can provide for general issues
in linguistic theory.
This book offers the first comprehensive account of the development
of the Romanian morphological system. Romanian is one of the most
morphologically complex Romance languages, but has remained
relatively understudied compared with better-known languages such
as French and Spanish. Following an introduction that provides an
outline of the history of Romanian, its writing system and major
typological characteristics, and the major patterns of allomorphy,
chapters in this volume explore a range of fascinatingly complex
aspects of Romanian grammar whose structure and history have to
date been largely inaccessible to the English-speaking world. Among
the most distinctive morphological characteristics of Romanian
discussed by the authors are its inflexional case system; the
highly unpredictable formation of the plural; the existence of a
non-finite verb form that appears to be the continuation of the
Latin supine; the near-absence of distinctive subjunctive
morphology; and the complex patterns of allomorphy brought about by
successive sound change. The frequently controversial origins of
many of these developments have important implications for broader
historical Romance linguistics and indeed for morphological theory
more generally.
This book is about the nature of morphology and its place in the
structure of grammar. Drawing on a wide range of aspects of Romance
inflectional morphology, leading scholars present detailed
arguments for the autonomy of morphology, ie morphology has
phenomena and mechanisms of its own that are not reducible to
syntax or phonology. But which principles and rules govern this
independent component and which phenomena can be described or
explicated by the mechanisms of the morphemic level? In shedding
light on these questions, this volume constitutes a major
contribution to Romance historical morphology in particular, and to
our understanding of the nature and importance of morphomic
structure in language change in general.
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