Dialects of Italy

Dr Martin Maiden, Martin Maiden, Mair Parry

'... such a well thought out and carefully executed collection, which does more than just fill a gap in the literature in English: it occupies a first-rank place among the best reference works on Italian dialectology in any language.' - Giulio Lepschy

• Introduction by the editors; I: Structures; 1: Vowel systems; 2: Metaphony; 3: Palatalization; 4: Consonantal weakening; 5: Lengthening and raddoppiament fonosintattico; 6: The syllable; 7: Prosodie phonology; 8: Inflectional morphology of the noun and adjective; 9: Inflectional morphology of the verb; 10: Tense, mood and aspect in the verb; 11: Synthetic and analytic structures; 12: Personal pronouns and demonstratives; 13: Word structure and word formation; 14: Sentence word order; 15: Conjunctions; 16: Pronominal syntax; 17: Passive and impersonal constructions; 18: The structure of the noun phrase; 19: Complementation; 20: Negation; 21: Quantifiers; 22: Relative clauses; 23: The syntax of conditional sentences; 24: Prepositions; 25: Lexical and semantic variation; II: The dialect areas; 26: The geographical distribution of the dialects; Dialects of the north; 27: Piedmont; 28: Liguria; 29: Lombardy; 30: Trentino; 31: The Veneto; 32: Emilia–Romagna; 33: Friuli; 34: Ladin; Dialects of the centre and south; 35: Tuscany; 36: Corsica; 37: Lazio, Umbria and the Marche; 38: Abruzzo and Molise; 39: Campania; 40: Puglia and Salento; 41: Basilicata; 42: Calabria and southern Basilicata; 43: Sicily; 44: Sardinia; III: Sociolinguistics; 45: The relationship between the dialects and the standard language; 46: Code-switching and code-mixing; 47: The dialects abroad; 48: Italianization of the dialects