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RIGHTS AVAILABLE. 1999
The publication
With close of 250.000 words (almost 400.000 if the collocations
are included) The Grande Dizionario Italiano dell'Uso is a completely
new dictionary, featuring foreign words and modern specialist teminology,
while constituting a faithful record of Italy's literary tradition
and cultural heritage.
One striking novelty is the coded marker, pointing the reader to
particular contexts and usages.
The Authors
The Grande Dizionario Italiano dell'Uso has been compiled and edited
by Tullio De Mauro in collaboration with Giulio C. Lepschy and Edoardo
Sanguineti.
Tullio De Mauro (1932) professor of linguistics at Rome's
University "La Sapienza", has specialized in problems
of semantics, general linguistics, and the history of the Italian
language. He has also analysed the influence of sociological factors
on linguistic evolution. His works have been influenced by structuralism
and the theories of Ferdinand de Saussure; in 1967 he edited the
translation of Cours de linguistique generale. One of De Mauro's
seminal works, Storia linguistica dell'Italia unita (1963), is a
study of the development of the Italian language from national unification
trought until the post-war period.
Giulio C. Lepschy (1935), professor of linguistics at the
University of Reading in Great Britain, has concentrated on historical
aspects of linguistics. Among his works: La linguistica strutturale
(1966); Saggi di linguistica italiana (1978); Intorno a Saussure
(1979); Mutamenti di prospettiva in linguistica (1981); Storia della
linguistica (1990-1994).
Edoardo Sanguineti (1930), poet, novelist and critic, is
Professor of Italian Literature. A member of Gruppo '63, Sanguineti
is a key figure in contemporary Italian literature.
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