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The Oxford handbook of the Italian language / edited by Adam Noel Ledgeway, Martin Maiden.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford handbooks in linguistics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Italian language.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations.
- illustration
- Other Title:
- Handbook of the Italian language
- Italian language
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2026]
- Summary:
- "This handbook brings together in a single volume detailed accounts of all facets of the Italian language from a wide range of perspectives. Data from Italian have always been prominent in the linguistic literature, thanks to the language’s richly documented diachronic and synchronic variation. This perennially fertile yet still under-explored testing ground has a central role to play in challenging linguistic orthodoxies and shaping and informing new ideas and perspectives about language change, structure, and variation. The volume is divided into six parts that explore, respectively: the making of Italian, historical changes, structures of Italian, sociolinguistics of Italian, Italian outside of Italy, and Italian in contact. The data and analyses featured across the chapters demonstrate that our knowledge and understanding of many fields of linguistics continue to be enhanced through the study of Italian. This handbook will therefore be a valuable resource not only for Italianists and Romance linguists, but also for general linguists—undergraduate and graduate students and established scholars—interested in the insights that Italian has to offer"-- Oxford Academic
- Contents:
- Defining Italian / Adam Noel Ledgeway and Martin Maiden
- Tuscan, Florentine, and Italian : External history / Paolo D’Achille and Domenico Proietti
- The history of Italian : The roles of literature and economics / Claudio Marazzini
- The questione della lingua in the Renaissance / Brian Richardson
- The questione della lingua : Nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Nigel Vincent
- Grammaticography / Alvise Andreose
- Women in the history of the Italian language / Helena Sanson
- Historical phonology / Lori Repetti and Jordan Kodner
- Historical morphology / Martin Maiden
- Historical syntax / Adam Noel Ledgeway
- Address systems and their history / Lorenzo Renzi
- Archaism and innovation / Nigel Vincent
- Orthography and writing / Pietro Maturi
- Phonetics / Antonio Romano
- Phonology / Laura Vanelli
- Inflexional morphology / Franck Floricic
- Derivational morphology and compounding / Maria Grossmann and Anna M. Thornton
- Evaluative morphology / M. Silvia Micheli
- The nominal group / Luigi Andriani and Giuseppina Silvestri
- The verbal group / Adam Noel Ledgeway
- The clause / Eva-Maria Remberger
- Pragmatics / Sandra Paoli and Jacqueline Visconti
- Information structure / Delia Bentley and Silvio Cruschina
- Semantics / Chiara Gianollo
- The lexicon : Onomasiology and semasiology / Luca Lorenzetti
- Standardization / Massimo Cerruti
- Multilingualism / Gabriele Iannàccaro and others
- Diamesic variation and registers / Anna-Maria De Cesare
- Diastratic variation / Mari D’Agostino
- Gender and language / Francesca M. Dovetto
- Italian in Switzerland / Laura Baranzini
- Italian in the Mediterranean area / Daniele Baglioni
- Italian around the world / Raffaella Bombi
- Italian in contact : The Middle Ages / Lorenzo Tomasin
- Italian in contact : The modern period / Alessandro Carlucci
- Italian and immigrant languages / Francesco Goglia
- Popular Italian and its history / Maurizio Dardano and Emanuele Ventura
- Northern regional Italian / Diego Pescarini
- Central regional Italian / Tania Paciaroni
- Southern regional Italian / Francesco Avolio
- Regional Italian of Sardinia / Lucia Molinu and Simone Pisano
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed September 18, 2026)
- Other Format:
- Print version: Oxford handbook of the Italian language
- ISBN:
- 9780191980695
- 0191980692
- 9780192885388
- 0192885383
- 9780192885371
- 0192885375
- OCLC:
- 1592133590
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000395155
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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