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Modern Italian Grammar: A Practical Guide by
This new edition of the Modern Italian Grammar is an innovative reference guide to Italian, combining traditional and function-based grammar in a single volume. With a strong emphasis on contemporary usage, all grammar points and functions are richly illustrated with examples. Implementing feedback from users of the first edition, this text includes clearer explanations, as well as a greater emphasis on areas of particular difficulty for learners of Italian. Divided into two sections, the book covers: traditional grammatical categories such as word order, nouns, verbs and adjectives language functions and notions such as giving and seeking information, describing processes and results, and expressing likes, dislikes and preferences. This is the ideal reference grammar for learners of Italian at all levels, from beginner to advanced. No prior knowledge of grammatical terminology is needed and a glossary of grammatical terms is provided. This Grammar is complemented by the Modern Italian Grammar Workbook Second Edition which features related exercises and activities.
Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2013
The Italian Language Today by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (PC1087 .L46 1991 )Publication Date: 1989
La lingua italiana : morfologia, sintassi, fonologia, formazione delle parole, lessico, nozioni di linguistica e sociolinguistica by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (PC1112 .D37 1985 )Publication Date: 1985
Idiomatic Constructions in Italian by
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.
Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2014
Italian Dialects
L'Italiano nelle regioni : lingua nazionale e identità regionali by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Reference X (PC1711 .I83 1992 )Publication Date: 1992- Dizionario etimologico coratino/2 : Aggiunte byLocation: Mugar Memorial Library Reference X (PC1809.C67 B83 1985 )Publication Date: 1985
- Vocabolario italiano milanese byLocation: Mugar Memorial Library Reference X (PC1864.M5 A64 1983 )Publication Date: 1983
- Vocabolario : napoletano-italiano byLocation: Mugar Memorial Library Reference X (PC1812 .F66 )Publication Date: 1966
Proverbi e modi di dire del dialetto siciliano Lingua, verità e fantasia by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (PC1801 .C65 2015 )Publication Date: 2015
A Comparative Grammar of Borgomanerese by
This book presents and analyzes various features of the morphosyntax of Borgomanerese, a Gallo-Italic dialect spoken in the town of Borgomanero, in the Piedmont region of Northern Italy. The study is highly comparative, drawing on the literature on numerous other Italian dialects and Romancelanguages (as well as English), to inform our understanding of the Borgomanerese phenomena. Christina Tortora takes the many unusual and understudied (and often novel) facts of Borgomanerese grammar as compelling grounds for revisiting and reformulating current analyses of syntactic phenomena inthese other languages. The phenomena treated include the syntax and semantics of the weak locative in presentational sentences; the syntax of object clitics and argument prepositions; the syntax of subjects and subject clitics; the syntax of interrogatives; clausal architecture; and the relationshipbetween orthography and theoretical analysis. The principal value of this book lies both in the rich description of the morphosyntactic phenomena of Borgomanerese, many of which have not been previously reported in the literature, and in the consequent novel analyses developed, which contribute insights for other languages and dialects, andadvance our understanding of syntax and syntactic theory in general.
Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2014
Raccolta de' proverbii, detti, sentenze, parole e frasi veneziane, arricchita d'alcuni esempii ed istorielle by Location: Mugar Memorial Library Stacks (PN6475.V5 Z67 2008 )Publication Date: 2008
