ITA363H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Voi, Devo, Socalled
9 Feb 2016
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Tullio de mauro studied the spread of italian in the national community: found that rome as the new capital was not comparable to other. European cities because the polycentric structure of italy before unification survived for so long: regional capitals are more influential in political and economical matters than the national capital. Gradual standardization of language in state controlled activities but not in: led to the of polymorphism: having multiple forms for the same everyday life language. It accounts for the existence of 2+ equivalent forms in italian for some of the commonest lexical terms, while other european languages have a single word (soul) (i do) (i go) Sponda, riva, ripa: (he have) (brook) (bank) True italian speakers were confined to rural communities were the dialects were untainted. Internal migration became the most influential factor in the national language"s spread following the unification.
