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The Italian Language Today 2nd Edition
Author(s): Anna Laura Lepschy (Author), Guilio Lepschy (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 11 May 2016
- Edition: 2nd
- Language: English
- Print length: 260 pages
- ISBN-10: 9781138146976
- ISBN-13: 1138146978
Book Description
‘a truly authoritative short Italian grammar … possibly the best concise account now available in any language’ – The Times Literary Supplement ‘a stimulating and scholarly introduction to Italian for the serious student. It contains a great deal of original material and the authors’ unequivocal attitudes to the linguistic reality of modern Italy…make it important that it should be read and discussed by Italianists everywhere’ – The Times Higher Education Supplement ‘a major new contribution to the literature in English…it will be an essential part of the linguistic formation of every Italianist’ – The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies Recently revised to bring it completed up-to-date, this book remains a unique source on the Italian language as it is actually spoken and written in Italy. The combination of historical perspective and contemporary grammar make it particularly useful for Italian linguistics.
Editorial Reviews
Review
`… a truly authoritative short Italian grammar … the best account now available in any language.’ – Times Literary Supplement
`a stimulating and scholarly introduction to Italian for the serious student.’ – Times Higher
About the Author
Anna Laura Lepschy, Giulio Lepschy
