The Sounds, Forms, and Uses 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.

The late Gianrenzo P. Clivio was Professor, Department of Italian Studies, University of Toronto.Danesi Marcel :

Marcel Danesi is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto.

'This is a textbook that I would both use and recommend to my colleagues and to my students ... It is a first-rate introduction to Italian linguistics which the profession needs ... This book fills a basic gap in textbooks for the Italian undergraduate and graduate curricula.'

Hermann W. Haller, Department of European Languages and Literatures, Queens College, City Univesity of New York:

'This is a textbook that I would both use and recommend to my colleagues and to my students ... It is a first-rate introduction to Italian linguistics which the profession needs ... This book fills a basic gap in textbooks for the Italian undergraduate and graduate curricula.'

'The two authors have skillfilly synthesized an esoteric subject so that even a college student enrolled in Italian Linguistics 101 can easily understand this basic textbook and can enrich his/her knowledge of Italian... anyone using this textbook will find it to be a positive asset to his personal library, and all students of Italian linguistics should definitely acquire this volume.'