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Mother Tongues and Other Reflections on the Italian Language /

Italian is unique among modern European languages, for although it has a history going back eight centuries, it has only consolidated as a spoken national language during the twentieth century. Previously, it was a written, literary language, and people spoke regional dialects that were strikingly d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lepschy, Giulio (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
Colección:Toronto Italian Studies
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • 1. Mother Tongues and Literary Languages
  • 2. The Languages of Italy
  • 3. Popular Italian: Fact or Fiction?
  • 4. Secondary Stress: Surface Contrasts
  • 5. La Veniexiana: A Venetian Play of the Renaissance
  • 6. Carlo Dionisotti, 1908-1998: A Memoir
  • Index of Names