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Mother Tongues and Other Reflections on the Italian Language

By: Giulio C. Lepschy

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Mother Tongues and Other Reflections on the Italian Language

By: Giulio C. Lepschy

In this collection of six scholarly essays on the Italian language, Giulio Lepschy discusses issues ranging from Italian literary and spoken history to prosody and a play of the Italian Renaissance.

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0802037291

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Mother Tongues and Other Reflections on the Italian Language

By: Giulio C. Lepschy

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Mother Tongues and Other Reflections on the Italian Language

By: Giulio C. Lepschy

In this collection of six scholarly essays on the Italian language, Giulio Lepschy discusses issues ranging from Italian literary and spoken history to prosody and a play of the Italian Renaissance.

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History of Linguistics Volume II

Classical and Medieval Linguistics

By: Giulio C. Lepschy

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History of Linguistics Volume II

Classical and Medieval Linguistics

By: Giulio C. Lepschy

This comprehensive history of linguistics is part of a 5 volume set. Together, the volumes examine the social, cultural and religious functions of language, its place in education, the prestige attached to different varieties of language, and the presentation of lexical and grammatical descriptions. They explore the linguistic interests and assumptions of individual cultures in their own terms, without trying to transpose and reshape them into the context of contemporary ideas of what the scientific study of language ought to be. The authors of individual chapters are all specialists who have been able to analyse the primary sources, and so produce original syntheses which offer an authoritative view of the different traditions and periods. Volume Two examines the Greek, Roman and Medieval European traditions, which between them developed the grammatical and syntactical models which form the basis of our inherited linguistic assumptions.

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Routledge

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1317895274

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History of Linguistics, Volume IV

Nineteenth-Century Linguistics

By: Anna Morpurgo Davies,Giulio C. Lepschy

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History of Linguistics, Volume IV

Nineteenth-Century Linguistics

By: Anna Morpurgo Davies,Giulio C. Lepschy

The History of Linguistics, to be published in five volumes, aims to provide the reader with an authoritative and comprehensive account of the attitudes to language prevailing in different civilizations and in different periods by examining the very varied development of linguistic thought in the specific social, cultural and religious contexts involved. Issues discussed include the place of language in education, variation and prestige, and approaches to lexical and grammatical description. The authors of the individual chapters are specialists who have analysed the primary sources and produced original syntheses by exploring the linguistic interests and assumptions of particular cultures in their own terms, without seeking to reinterpret them as contributions towards the development of contemporary western conceptions of linguistic science. In Volume IV: Nineteenth Century Linguistics, Anna Morpurgo Davies shows how linguistics came into its own as an independent discipline separated from philosophical and literary studies and enjoyed a unique intellectual and institutional success tied to the research ethos of the new universities, until it became a model for other humanistic subjects which aimed at 'scientific status'. The linguistics of the nineteenth century abandons earlier theoretical discussions in favour of a more empirical and historical approach using new methods to compare languages and to investigate their history. The great achievement of this period is the demonstration that languages such as Sanskrit , Latin and English are related and derive from a parent language which is not attested but can be reconstructed. This book discusses in detail the theories developed and the individual findings obtained. In contrast with earlier historiographical trends it denies that the new approach originated entirely from German Romanticism, and highlights a form of continuity with the eighteenth century, while stressing that a deliberate break took place round the 1830s. By the end of the century the results of comparative and historical linguistics had been generally accepted, but it soon became clear that a historical approach could not by itself solve all questions that it raised. At this point the new interest in description and theory which characterizes the twentieth century began to gain prominence.

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1134959516

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History of Linguistics Vol III

Renaissance and Early Modern Linguistics

By: Giulio C. Lepschy

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History of Linguistics Vol III

Renaissance and Early Modern Linguistics

By: Giulio C. Lepschy

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131789524X

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The Italian Language Today

By: Anna Laura Lepschy,Giulio Lepschy

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The Italian Language Today

By: Anna Laura Lepschy,Giulio Lepschy

Italian as a national spoken language is a new experience for Italians; until very recently it was normal for the majority of the people to speak in a dialect, and Italian was a literary language used only by a minority. The first section of this book provides an outline of the language, and a sketch of the dialects. The authors also describe the formation of the modern standard language in its varieties (regional, social, and occupational). Part two is a reference grammar of contemporary educated Italian, presented in the way it is actually used, rather than according to traditional prescription. The book concentrates on contemporary usage and will enable the reader to understand and use appropriately a wide range of expressions, characterized where necessary according to their level of formality or their regional nature. The illuminating combination of historical perspective and contemporary grammer make this a unique contribution to Italian linguistics, and an invaluable reference book for all students and scholars in the field of Italian. The second edition has been revised throughout to bring it completely up to date.

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New Amsterdam Books

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1461636264

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History of Linguistics Volume II

Classical and Medieval Linguistics

By: Giulio C. Lepschy

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Classical and Medieval Linguistics

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1317895282

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History of Linguistics Volume I

The Eastern Traditions of Linguistics

By: Giulio C. Lepschy

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History of Linguistics Volume I

The Eastern Traditions of Linguistics

By: Giulio C. Lepschy

This comprehensive history of linguistics is part of a 5 volume set. Together, the volumes examine the social, cultural and religious functions of language, its place in education, the prestige attached to different varieties of language, and the presentation of lexical and grammatical descriptions. They explore the linguistic interests and assumptions of individual cultures in their own terms, without trying to transpose and reshape them into the context of contemporary ideas of what the scientific study of language ought to be. The authors of individual chapters are all specialists who have been able to analyse the primary sources, and so produce original syntheses which offer an authoritative view of the different traditions and periods. Volime One examines the developments of Chinese linguistics, Indian grammatical tradition, the linguistic interests of the Near East, the Hebrew tradition, and the Arabic grammatical system of the Middle Ages.

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1317895312

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Mother Tongues and Other Reflections on the Italian Language

Mother Tongues and Other Reflections on the Italian Language

Mother Tongues and Other Reflections on the Italian Language

Mother Tongues and Other Reflections on the Italian Language

History of Linguistics Volume II

History of Linguistics Volume II

History of Linguistics, Volume IV

History of Linguistics, Volume IV

History of Linguistics Vol III

History of Linguistics Vol III

The Italian Language Today

The Italian Language Today

History of Linguistics Volume II

History of Linguistics Volume II

History of Linguistics Volume I

History of Linguistics Volume I

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