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This handbook brings together in a single volume detailed accounts of all facets of the Italian language from a wide range of perspectives. Data from Italian have always been prominent in the linguistic literature, thanks to the language's richly documented diachronic and synchronic variation. This perennially fertile yet still under-explored testing ground has a central role to play in challenging linguistic orthodoxies and shaping and informing new ideas and perspectives about language change, structure, and variation. The volume is divided into six parts that explore, respectively: the making of Italian, historical changes, structures of Italian, sociolinguistics of Italian, Italian outside of Italy, and Italian in contact. The data and analyses featured across the chapters demonstrate that our knowledge and understanding of many fields of linguistics continue to be enhanced through the study of Italian. This handbook will therefore be a valuable resource not only for Italianists and Romance linguists, but also for general linguists - undergraduate and graduate students and established scholars - interested in the insights that Italian has to offer

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Adam Noel Ledgeway is Professor of Italian Linguistics at the University of Bergamo, and before that was Professor of Italian and Romance Linguistics at the University of Cambridge (1996-2024). He is a Fellow of the British Academy and Member of the Academia Europaea. His research interests include the comparative history and morphosyntax of the Romance languages, Italian dialectology, Latin, Italo-Greek, syntactic theory, linguistic change and language contact. Martin Maiden is Professor of the Romance Languages at the University of Oxford and Director of the Oxford Research Centre for Romance Linguistics. He is a general Romance linguist with particular research interests in Italian and Romanian linguistics and dialectology, historical linguistics, and morphology. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Corresponding Member of the Italian Accademia della Crusca, and President of the Société internationale de linguistique et de philologie romanes.

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