Raddoppiamento Sintattico in Italian: A Synchronic and Diachronic Cross-Dialectical Study

by Doris Angel Borrelli

First Published in 2002. The Italian phenomenon known as raddoppiamento sintattico, or sometimes raddoppiamento fonosintattico, has received a vast amount of attention. Long recognized in Italian grammar books, the process consists of the gemination of a word-initial consonant in certain environments. The word raddoppiamento means "doubling," and it is deemed "syntactic" or "phonosyntactic" because the process spans word boundaries. This offers a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415942071
• ISBN13: 9780415942072
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.8" x 8.6"