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
1: Adam Ledgeway and Martin Maiden: Defining Italian
2: Paolo D'Achille and Domenico Proietti: Tuscan, Florentine, and Italian: External history
3: Claudio Marazzini: The history of Italian: The roles of literature and economics
4: Brian Richardson: The questione della lingua in the Renaissance
5: Nigel Vincent: The questione della lingua: Nineteenth and twentieth centuries
6: Alvise Andreose: Grammaticography
7: Helena Sanson: Women in the history of the Italian language
Part II. Historical linguistics
8: Lori Repetti and Jordan Kodner: Historical phonology
9: Martin Maiden: Historical morphology
10: Adam Ledgeway: Historical syntax
11: Lorenzo Renzi: Address systems and their history
12: Nigel Vincent: Archaism and innovation
Part III. Structures of Italian
13: Pietro Maturi: Orthography and writing
14: Antonio Romano: Phonetics
15: Laura Vanelli: Phonology
16: Franck Floricic: Inflexional morphology
17: Maria Grossmann and Anna M. Thornton: Derivational morphology and compounding
18: Maria Silvia Micheli: Evaluative morphology
19: Luigi Andriani and Giuseppina Silvestri: The nominal group
20: Adam Ledgeway: Verbal group
21: Eva-Maria Remberger: The clause
22: Sandra Paoli and Jacqueline Visconti: Pragmatics
23: Delia Bentley and Silvio Cruschina: Information structure
24: Chiara Gianollo: Semantics
25: Luca Lorenzetti: The lexicon: Onomasiology and semasiology
Part IV. Sociolinguistics
26: Massimo Cerruti: Standardization
27: Gabriele Iannaccaro, Vittorio Dell'Aquila, and Simone Ciccolone: Multilingualism
28: Anna-Maria De Cesare: Diamesic variation and registers
29: Mari D'Agostino: Diastratic variation
30: Francesca Dovetto: Gender and language
Part V. Italian outside of Italy
31: Laura Baranzini: Italian in Switzerland
32: Daniele Baglioni: Italian in the Mediterranean area
33: Raffaella Bombi: Italian around the world
Part VI. Italian in contact
34: Lorenzo Tomasin: Italian in contact: The Middle Ages
35: Alessandro Carlucci: Italian in contact: The modern period
36: Francesco Goglia: Italian and immigrant languages
37: Maurizio Dardano and Emanuele Ventura: Popular Italian and its history
38: Diego Pescarini: Northern regional Italian
39: Tania Paciaroni: Central regional Italian
40: Francesco Avolio: Southern regional Italian
41: Lucia Molinu and Simone Pisano: Regional Italian of Sardinia
