Everyday conversations in Italian made easy Italy is a perennially popular destination for Americans, with three cities (Florence, Rome, and Venice) among the top ten in Travel & Leisure's 2003 "World's Best Cities" poll. This concise, easy-to-use guide helps travelers and stude…
Planning a trip to Italy' The Eyewitness Travel Guides: Italian Visual Phrase Book can help you start learning Italian today. Whether you're visiting Italy for business or pleasure, learn how to speak Italian with essential words and phrases for hundreds of illustrated everyday …
An illustrated phrasebook in the slimline format that has proved so successful for the Eyewitness Travel Pocket guides and maps. The perfect survival guide for everyday situations, with all the essential phrases interspersed with illustrated wordlists.
For tourists who hope to have a unique, "off the beaten path" experience in Italy, learning a little of the native language is crucial. Just knowing they can find the train station (stazione del treno) or say "thank you" (grazie) can relieve some of the stress that traveling can…
by Ghini, Mirco
fromStudies in generative grammar
This Italian reference grammar provides a comprehensive, accessible and jargon-free guide to the forms and structures of Italian.
Filling a major gap in the curriculum of undergraduate and graduate programs in Italian linguistics, this is a text on Italian linguistics that clearly presents all of the key concepts in a form designed specifically for English-speaking students.
Arising from a dissatisfaction with blandly general or abstrusely theoretical approaches to translation, this book sets out to show, through detailed and lively analysis, what it really means to translate literary style. Combining linguistic and lit crit approaches, it proceeds …
This volume examines diachronic change and diversity in the morphosyntax of Romance varieties spoken in Italy. These varieties offer an especially fertile terrain for research into language change, because of both the richness of dialectal variation and the length of the period …
This study is devoted to the analysis of Italian idioms with either ordinary or support verbs (also called light verbs). The research focuses on the exhaustive description of idioms, and is based on their systematic classification according to the principles of the Lexicon-Gramm…
Der vorliegende Band bietet die erste umfassende Beschreibung der italienischen Wortbildung des 20. Jahrhunderts in all ihren nicht-dialektalen Varietäten. Das Augenmerk liegt auf den produktiven Mustern. Neben den zentralen Gebieten Komposition und Derivation werden auch die Gr…
A major contribution to the study of language acquisition and language development inspired by theoretical linguistics has been made by research on the acquisition of Italian syntax. This book offers an updated overview of results from theory-driven experimental and corpus-based…
A photographic guide to the key words and phrases in Italian. This attractive pocket-sized book is a perfect travel companion and provides a practical guide to Italy and Italian language and culture. Everyday words are arranged in themes with carefully selected up-to-date images…
Contains worksheets that provide practice in basic Italian, featuring eight units and forty lessons that cover basic vocabulary and grammatical structures.
