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A quick and easy-to-use text, it matches conciseness with academic precision to come up with an answer to the many doubts that daily use of the language gives rise to.
Divided into five sections (in order: Sounds and Letters, Forms, Phrases, Sentences, and Italian Words) the book plays host to a series of sidebars throughout the volume that illustrate curiosities and offer solutions for numerous doubts about spoken and written Italian usage.
Grammar tables showing the proper inflection of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and regular and irregular verbs fill out the volume, making it a nimble linguistic ‘first-aid kit’ for on-the-go reference.
This handbook is designed for Italian and foreign students and for all those who wish to expand their knowledge of Italian in a clear, simple, and concise approach.
Giuseppe Patota is full professor of Italian linguistics at the Università di Siena-Arezzo. He is a member of the Associazione per la Storia della Lingua Italiana (ASLI) and of the Société Internationale Leon Battista Alberti (SILBA), as well as scientific chairman of the PLIDA, which manages the PLIDA certification program in Italian as a foreign language, on behalf of the Società Dante Alighieri worldwide.
Patota's books and articles cover topics such as eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literary Italian, the history of Italian syntax, the history of grammar, and the historical grammar of Italian. Outside of Italy, he has published in France and Japan. Since 2004 Giuseppe Patota has been the editorial director of the Grande Dizionario Italiano Garzanti. His televised commentaries on language and linguistics have been broadly acclaimed.
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