By Gianrenzo P. Clivio
ISBN-10: 0802048005
ISBN-13: 9780802048004
Here, finally, is a textual content on Italian linguistics that in actual fact provides the entire key innovations in a kind designed in particular for English-speaking scholars. This specified booklet will fill a massive hole within the curriculum of undergraduate and graduate courses in Italian linguistics.
The authors clarify advanced linguistics principles in a logical, succinct, and available type. topics and ideas resembling phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, discourse, and version are taken care of intimately, utilizing conscientiously chosen examples. The follow-up actions on the finish of every bankruptcy offer possibilities for overview and useful program, with questions that invite mirrored image and extra learn.
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10. How are the Italian dialects classified? 11. Give examples of metaphony in any dialect you may know. If you do not know one, then compile a brief list of metaphonically derived words by interviewing a native speaker of a southern Italian dialect, asking her or him to give you the corresponding words for buono, buoni, buona, buone, porto, porta, rosso, and rossa. 12. Describe briefly in your own words how standard Italian came into being. 13. Look up the following words and indicate if they are derived directly from Latin or from some foreign source.
Plosive (complete stoppage of the airstream), also known as stop or occlusive 2. fricative (constriction or turbulence in letting the airstream through the mouth) 3. affricate (combination of plosive + fricative articulations) 4. flap (tongue flapping in the production of the consonant), also known as vibrant 5. lateral (narrowing the tongue as the airstream escapes from the sides of the tongue) 6. nasal (airstream resonates in the nasal passage). g. the [s] in sera or the [J] in sciocco. Flaps and laterals are classified together as liquids.
5. Given the following Latin words, provide their probable modern Italian versions, explaining to the best of your ability, the changes that have occurred. Example: actu(m) ('act') > atto (assimilation of/kt/ > /tt/) CRtfCE(M) ('cross') PRATU(M) ('field') NASU(M) ('nose') STRATA(M) ('road') NIVE(M) ('snow') NGCE(M) ('walnut') CAUDA(M) ('tail') MATRE(M) ('mother') PATRE(M) ('father') PEDE(M) ('foot') HOMO ('man') FLORE(M) ('flower') PATELLA(M) ('pan') FICATU(M) ('liver') CLAVE(M) ('key') PLENU(M) ('full') 6.
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