Full Description
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
Contents
PART I. The making of Italian
CHAPTER 1: ADAM LEDGEWAY and MARTIN MAIDEN: Defining Italian
CHAPTER 2: PAOLO D'ACHILLE and DOMENICO PROIETTI: Tuscan, Florentine, and Italian: External history
CHAPTER 3: CLAUDIO MARAZZINI: The history of Italian: The roles of literature and economics
CHAPTER 4: BRIAN RICHARDSON: The questione della lingua in the Renaissance
CHAPTER 5: NIGEL VINCENT: The questione della lingua: Nineteenth and twentieth centuries
CHAPTER 6: ALVISE ANDREOSE: Grammaticography
CHAPTER 7: HELENA SANSON: Women in the history of the Italian language
PART II. Historical linguistics
CHAPTER 8: LORI REPETTI and JORDAN KODNER: Historical phonology
CHAPTER 9: MARTIN MAIDEN: Historical morphology
CHAPTER 10: ADAM LEDGEWAY: Historical syntax
CHAPTER 11: LORENZO RENZI: Address systems and their history
CHAPTER 12: NIGEL VINCENT: Archaism and innovation
PART III. Structures of Italian
CHAPTER 13: PIETRO MATURI: Orthography and writing
CHAPTER 14: ANTONIO ROMANO: Phonetics
CHAPTER 15: LAURA VANELLI: Phonology
CHAPTER 16: FRANCK FLORICIC: Inflexional morphology
CHAPTER 17: MARIA GROSSMANN and ANNA M. THORNTON: Derivational morphology and compounding
CHAPTER 18: MARIA SILVIA MICHELI: Evaluative morphology
CHAPTER 19: LUIGI ANDRIANI and GIUSEPPINA SILVESTRI: The nominal group
CHAPTER 20: ADAM LEDGEWAY: Verbal group
CHAPTER 21: EVA-MARIA REMBERGER: The clause
CHAPTER 22: SANDRA PAOLI and JACQUELINE VISCONTI: Pragmatics
CHAPTER 23: DELIA BENTLEY and SILVIO CRUSCHINA: Information structure
CHAPTER 24: CHIARA GIANOLLO: Semantics
CHAPTER 25: LUCA LORENZETTI: The lexicon: Onomasiology and semasiology
PART IV. Sociolinguistics
CHAPTER 26: MASSIMO CERRUTI: Standardization
CHAPTER 27: GABRIELE IANNACCARO, VITTORIO DELL'AQUILA, and SIMONE CICCOLONE: Multilingualism
CHAPTER 28: ANNA-MARIA DE CESARE: Diamesic variation and registers
CHAPTER 29: MARI D'AGOSTINO: Diastratic variation
CHAPTER 30: FRANCESCA DOVETTO: Gender and language
PART V. Italian outside of Italy
CHAPTER 31: LAURA BARANZINI: Italian in Switzerland
CHAPTER 32: DANIELE BAGLIONI: Italian in the Mediterranean area
CHAPTER 33: RAFFAELLA BOMBI: Italian around the world
PART VI. Italian in contact
CHAPTER 34: LORENZO TOMASIN: Italian in contact: The Middle Ages
CHAPTER 35: ALESSANDRO CARLUCCI: Italian in contact: The modern period
CHAPTER 36: FRANCESCO GOGLIA: Italian and immigrant languages
CHAPTER 37: MAURIZIO DARDANO and EMANUELE VENTURA: Popular Italian and its history
CHAPTER 38: DIEGO PESCARINI: Northern regional Italian
CHAPTER 39: TANIA PACIARONI: Central regional Italian
CHAPTER 40: FRANCESCO AVOLIO: Southern regional Italian
CHAPTER 41: LUCIA MOLINU and SIMONE PISANO: Regional Italian of Sardinia
