Italian Language & Literature

The Italian Language Today by Anna Laura Lepschy; Giulio Lepschy

La lingua italiana : morfologia, sintassi, fonologia, formazione delle parole, lessico, nozioni di linguistica e sociolinguistica by Maurizio Dardano ; Pietro Trifone

Idiomatic Constructions in Italian by Simonetta Vietri This study is devoted to the analysis of Italian idioms with either ordinary or support verbs (also called light verbs). The research focuses on the exhaustive description of idioms, and is based on their systematic classification according to the principles of the Lexicon-Grammar methodology developed by Maurice Gross (1975, 1979 and further). A thorough examination of the literature shows strong disagreement on the acceptability of some idiomatic constructions. For this reason, the Web was used as a corpus to verify judgments on the supposed ungrammatical constructions. This approach showed that idiomatic constructions which have always been considered ungrammatical are instead perfectly acceptable if contextualized. The results obtained include the following: passive is not a "special case" when it concerns idioms, and idiomatic constructions show the same complexity as non-idiomatic constructions.

L'Italiano nelle regioni : lingua nazionale e identità regionali by Francesco Bruni

Dizionario etimologico coratino/2 : Aggiunte by Cataldo Bucci

Vocabolario italiano milanese by Ambrogio Maria Antonini

Vocabolario : napoletano-italiano by Raffaele Andreoli

Proverbi e modi di dire del dialetto siciliano Lingua, verità e fantasia by Pina Conti

A Comparative Grammar of Borgomanerese by Christina Tortora

Raccolta de' proverbii, detti, sentenze, parole e frasi veneziane, arricchita d'alcuni esempii ed istorielle by Francesco Zorzi Muazzo ; Franco Crevatin