LINGUIST List 21.4730 Thu Nov 25 2010 Sum: Resources: History of the Italian Language Editor for this issue: Danielle St. Jean <daniellelinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Regina Morin , Resources: History of the Italian Language Message 1: Resources: History of the Italian Language Date: 24-Nov-2010 From: Regina Morin <rmorintcnj.edu> Subject: Resources: History of the Italian Language E-mail this message to a friend Query for this summary posted in LINGUIST Issue: 21.3684 Earlier this semester I sent in the query "21.3684: Qs: Resources: History of the Italian Language." My students and I would like to thank all those who responded: Michael Friesner of the Université du Québec à Montréal, Francesco Gardani of the Institute for Romance Languages at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, and Stephan Schmid, Phonetisches Laboratorium der Universität Zürich, all suggested Martin Maiden's "A Linguistic History of Italian," London: Longman, 1995. Pierluigi Cuzzolin, professor of General and Historical Linguistics at the University of Bergamo (Italy), Andrea Sansò at the Università dell'Insubria, Como, Italy, and Federico Aurora, a PhD Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo all suggested Zamboni, Alberto. 2000. "Alle origini dell’italiano." Dinamiche e tipologie della transizione dal latino. Roma, Carocci, pp. 226. The book concentrates only on the internal history of the language. It is available at: http://ilmiolibro.kataweb.it/schedalibro.asp?id=281196 Cecilia Poletto from the University of Venice and Padua suggested Lorenzo Renzi, "Introduzione alla filologia romanza," Bologna, il Mulino, and a grammar of Old Italian which has just come out by IL Mulino (not set in a diachronic perspective, it only describes the features of the language spoken in Florence in the XIII century), "Grammatica dell’italiano antico," a cura di Giampaolo Salvi e Lorenzo Renzi, Bologna, Il Mulino 2010, 2 voll. Erika, a Linguistic Phd Student, used the following when she was an MA student: L. Serianni, Lezioni di grammatica storica italiana, Roma, Bulzoni and C. Marazzini, La storia della lingua italiana attraverso i testi, Bologna, Il Mulino. She also suggested looking at C. Marazzini, La lingua italiana. Profilo storico, II ed., and the following link: http://www.brunomondadori.com/scheda_campus.php? ID=1236&campusID=57 Chris Sams at Stephen F. Austin State University suggested Bruno Migliorini's "Storia della lingua italiana" or his Italian Language (Abridged and recast by T. Gwynfor Griffith). Storia is out of print in the US, but can be purchased from Italy. Italian Language is still available in the US. There is a Spanish translation of "Historia de la lengua italiana" available in the US as well. He also uses Tore Jansen's A Natural History of Latin. Peggy Renwick, a graduate student at Cornell University suggested "Romance Languages: A Historical Introduction," by Ti Alkire and Carol Rosen. This book uses as its basis comparisons between Spanish, Italian and French, with excursions into Portuguese, Romanian, and other Romance languages. The book was recently reviewed on LINGUIST List; and is available at the Amazon.com URL: http://www.amazon.com/Romance-Languages-Historical-Introduction- Alkire/dp/0521717841/ Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics Subject Language(s): Italian (ita) New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 25-Nov-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.