Università Roma Tre

The course aims to illustrate the structures and trends of contemporary Italian at all levels of linguistic analysis (phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon). It will further consider variational aspects (standard language versus dialects, and regional and popular varieties; differences between written, spoken and media usage; main textual typologies; evolution of the standard norm etc.). At the end of the course the student will be in the position to evaluate in its context and comment on from a linguistic perspective a non-literary text (written or spoken) of contemporary Italian.

- Paolo D’Achille, L’italiano contemporaneo, IV ed., Bologna, Il Mulino, 2019.