Mother Tongues and Other Reflections on the Italian Language / / Giulio Lepschy.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Toronto Italian Studies
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Table of Contents:
- 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