La storia della linguistica italiana

Luigi Speranza


The History of Linguistics in Italy, edited by Paolo Ramat, Hans-Josef Niederehe and E.F.K. Koerner (Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 33) 1986. x, 364 pp.

The volume brings together the papers published in Historiographia Linguistica 9:3 (1982), devoted to the history of linguistics in Italy, with Marazzini’s paper first published in Historiographia Linguistica 10:1/2 (1983), and an original article by Franco Lo Piparo expressly written for this volume.

The present volume provides in addition an index of subjects, as well as an index of names, which supplies bio-bibliographical references to authors discussed.

Table of contents

Foreword vii

Piparo, Franco Lo.

"Sign and Grammar in Dante Alighieri: a nonmodistic language theory"

Mirko Tavoni,

"The 15th-Century Controversy on the Language Spoken by
the Ancient Romans:
An inquiry into Italian humanist concepts of
‘Latin’, ‘grammar’, and ‘vernacular’.


Teresa Poggi Salani,

"Venticinque anni di lessicografia italiana delle origini
(leggere, scrivere e ‘politamente parlare’):
Note sull'idea di lingua"


Rudolf Engler,

"Philologia linguistica:
Lionardo Salviatis's Commentary on the Language of Boccaccio" (1584/86)


Giovanni Nencioni,

"L'Accademia della Crusca e la lingua italiana"

Herbert J. Izzo,

"Phonetics in 16th-Century Italy:
Giorgio Bartoli and John David Rhys"

Piparo, F. L. ]

Materialismo e linguistica in Leopardi

Claudio Marazzini,

"Carlo Denin, Linguista:
Aux sources du comparatisme"

Somenico Santamaria,

"Orientamenti della linguistica italiana del primo ottocento"

R. Hall,

"19th-Century Italian: Manzonian or De Amicisian"

Luigi Rosiello,

"Linguistica e marxismo nel pensiero di Gramsci"

Cesare Segre,

"Terracini e la linguistica del novecento"

Y. Malkiel,

"Romance and Indo-European Linguistics in Italy"

P. Ramat

Devoto

H. H. Christmann,
"
Neuere italienische Beiträge zur Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft:
Versuch einer Synthese aus der Sicht eines Nichtitalieners"