Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Spelling and pronunciation
3. Nouns and adjectives
4. The articles
5. Demonstratives
6. Personal pronouns
7. Relative structures
8. Interrogative structures
9. Indefinite, quantifier and negative pronouns and adjectives
10. Possessives and related constructions
11. Prepositions
12. Numerals and related expressions
13. Adverbs and adverbial constructions
14. Forms of the verb
15. Uses of the verb forms
16. Comparative, superlative and related constructions
17. Aspects of sentence structure
18. Negative constructions
19. Conjunctions and discourse markers
20. Word derivation
21. Time expressions
22. Forms of address

About the Author

Matin Maiden is Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Oxford.

Cecilia Robustelli is Professor of Italian Linguistics at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.