A Reference Grammar of Modern Italian

This grammar makes effective use of current assumptions in linguistics and of recent advances in the description of the Italian language. It also includes original observations and analysis not avilable elsewhere. This second edition provides scholars, students and teachers with a comprehensive and accessible guide to the forms and structures of Italian. It has been completely revised, largely rewritten and contains a new section of the differences in registers between written and spoken Italian, updates to the sections on causatives and on conjunctions and an extended glossary.