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Lo studio, condotto sul campo semantico di paura, mira alla creazione di un modello di dizionario elettronico delle collocazioni italiane con finalita attiva. I dati automaticamente estratti da un corpus di testi giornalistici contenente all incirca 300 milioni di parole vengono sottoposti ad una approfondita analisi lessicologica che alla descrizione sintagmatica delle collocazioni candidate aggiunge parametri tratti dagli studi psicologici nonche i ruoli tematici, l azione verbale e il concetto di prototipo. Cio consente la suddivisione delle collocazioni in macroclassi con...

Il volume raccoglie gli interventi del convegno internazionale organizzato dall'Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Zurigo in collaborazione con la Sezione di Italianistica dell'Istituto di Romanistica dell'Universita di Zurigo nel contesto delle iniziative previste per il centocinquantenario dell'Unita italiana. Esso offre negli interventi di affermati studiosi di fama internazionale e di noti scrittori un'analisi dello stato attuale (allargato agli ultimi decenni) della lingua e della letteratura italiana con un riferimento del tutto speciale all'italiano in terra svizzera."

Tra i testi di natura tecnica redatti in epoca medievale un posto di grande rilievo e occupato dai portolani, ossia i manuali contenenti le istruzioni per la navigazione nel Mediterraneo. Del piu antico e linguisticamente piu interessante di essi, Lo Compasso de navegare, tradito da un unico manoscritto risalente al 1296, si offre qui una nuova edizione, corredata di un dettagliato commento linguistico. Attraverso un confronto sistematico con la documentazione italoromanza coeva, il lavoro mira a far luce sulle modalita di trasmissione del testo e sulle sue stratificazioni, proponendo...

This 500-page bibliographical supplement has been revised and expanded for the completion of the DI's first four volumes, devoted to geographical names. It records the broad spectrum of materials that inform the DI - Italian dictionaries, literary and historiographical sources, electronic corpora - and updates the original 100-page Supplemento bibliografico published in 1997.

The illustrations for Mr. Nightingale are one of a kind. The artist (Kristina) and Ghazal worked carefully on the nuances of every illustration. They wished to capture in color and form the luxuriance of Persian culture and the opulent detail in ornamentation found even in ordinary homes. To produce the desired effect, the artist combined three painting methods. She used colored pencil to enhance the clarity of the drawings. The watercolor technique she used for the color wash has a magical quality that makes the pigments swim as if alive. The final touches of black ink bring prominence to...

Drawing on a dual expertise of rare intensity, Mirco Ghini's book is a major contribution to both Romance dialectology and phonological theory. It gives a comprehensive account of the segmental and metrical phonology of the Ligurian dialect of the village of Miogliola, North-west Italy. Based on the author's own fieldwork, it is the first in-depth study of this area, also tracing its development from Latin. Feature assignment, underspecification, and quantity alternations are most prominent among the general theoretical issues on which the particulars of Miogliola phonology, meticuously...

ITALIAN FLUENCY is a unique vocabulary companion written in a contemporary, easy-reading style with an emphasis on humor. This is not your boring grammar book... Whether beginner or advanced, this book is your shortcut to the language and will improve your Italian by a quantum leap. The first part of the book, Going for Fluency, provides an insight into the four modalities of language (reading, writing, listening and speaking) and offers a broad range of ideas for increasing fluency through today's technology: websites, blogs, media, music and more. The second part, Cognates, the Twin Words...

In recent years, prosodic competence has become increasingly important in second language acquisition studies, as it is a crucial element in the identification of non-native pronunciation and message understanding. This volume is the first attempt to provide a survey of interlanguage prosody research in L2 Italian. It begins with an overview of the possible approaches to the study of rhythmic-prosodic skills acquisition in an L2. The second part of the book emphasizes the relationship between the mother tongue and a second language, and investigates the presence of transfer in prosody...

Alessandro e uno studente che trova lavoro in estate presso un famoso stilista a Milano. Lo stilista muore, ucciso. E Alessandro e coinvolto dalla bellissima Tiziana in un'indagine pericolosa che lo porta nel mondo intricato e intrigante della moda milanese. Un thriller che e anche una storia d'amore con personaggi indimenticabili. Quarta edizione, con esercizi di comprensione dopo ogni capitolo e 'box' sulla cultura italiana."

This intensive foundation course in Italian is designed for students with no previous knowledge of the language. Accompanying audio material containing dialogues, listening exercises and pronunciation practice is available to purchase separately in CD format. These two audio CDs are designed to work alongside the accompanying book.

Students using the Routledge Intensive Italian Course will practise the four key skills of language learning - reading, writing, speaking, and listening - and will acquire a thorough working knowledge of the structures of Italian. The...

Introduzione al commercio italiano: An Introduction to Business Italian, now in its second edition, represents a new approach in teaching Italian with a focus. Readings are prepared or selected for their emphasis on business and social life. Comprehension questions and communicative exercises of a functional nature present the student with a situation that he or she must resolve. The exercises are varied and stimulating, hence fostering progressive and positive development of oral and written skills. This text meets the needs of today s communication-oriented student and offers...

Issues of language planning and minority nationalism or -micronationalism- are becoming increasingly important in a globalized world. Yet minority language planning in Italy and its relation to minority nationalism has so far attracted relatively limited academic attention, despite the particularly interesting changes that have taken place since Law 482 on the protection of minority languages was passed in 1999. This book presents the situation in Italy in three case studies and compares them with similar cases in Spain: Friulian (compared with Galician), Cimbrian (compared with Aranese) and...

This monograph investigates final vowel elision in spoken Italian. Specifically, the book sheds light on the functioning and the constraining factors of final vowel elision in sequences of vowel-final determiners followed by vowel-initial nouns and in sequences of vowel-final proclitics followed by vowel-initial lexical verbs. The analysis is based on -real- language, that is on corpus and elicited data as well as on their pooled results. The quantitative data are analyzed statistically in order to identify the factors which constrain final vowel elision (i.e. function word class, the...

The Development of Latin Post-Tonic /Cr/ Clusters in Select Northern Italian Dialects offers an explanation of the disparate outcomes of similar consonant clusters within several related Northern Italian dialects through application of optimality theory and frequency effects. It features a new approach to previously underrepresented phenomena in Italian dialectology in that it combines previously separated changes into one single theory. This volume is particularly useful for scholars within the fields of Romance languages and linguistics as well as for advanced students of the Italian...

Il parlato e un oggetto di studio al centro degli interessi di piu discipline (linguistica, semiotica, antropologia, sociologia, filosofia). Il volume intende osservare il parlato dal punto di vista dei suoi attori principali: i parlanti. Da questo particolare angolo visuale, il parlato si costituisce come una costruzione discorsiva che si sviluppa all interno di interazioni tramite le quali i parlanti rappresentano e gestiscono le loro molteplici identita linguistiche e sociali. Discorso, interazione e identita sono i tre piani lungo i quali e possibile vedere i parlanti come soggetti attivi...

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 Romance languages (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 in these...

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 Romance languages (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 in these...

The essence of any language lies not in its timehonored dictionaries, but in its slang. Streetwise Italian Dictionary/Thesaurus provides Italian students with today's most accurate, accessible, and up-to-date reference to current Italian slang and idiomatic expressions. More than 2,500 terms and expressions are conveniently arranged into alphabetical topics, and then--unlike most resources of its type--marked for register to prevent the embarrassment of inappropriate usage.

Extensive example sentences, together with their English translations, provide helpful context....

Learn Italian step-by-step and soon you'll be making leaps and bounds

Your quickest route to learning Italian is through a solid grounding in grammar basics. Now don't be put off by the "G-word." What you won't find in this book is a lot of repetitive drills. Instead, you get an original, step-by-step approach to learning Italian based on the way people naturally acquire language.

From the very beginning, you are introduced to the most essential structures--allowing you to communicate in Italian almost immediately. Gradually, through a series of interconnected "steps,"...

More practice to expand your Italian skills

The Practice Makes Perfect series has helped thousands learn the basics of Italian, from vocabulary to prepositions, verbs, and beyond. Now this innovative series turns its attention to advanced students of Italian who have the foundation of good language skills and want to take their knowledge to the next level. To help you evolve your language skills, this book focuses on more sophisticated grammar topics that are essential to constructing longer, more complex sentences. They especially highlight more troublesome areas, such as...