PART I. The making of ItalianCHAPTER 1: ADAM LEDGEWAY and MARTIN MAIDEN: Defining ItalianCHAPTER 2: PAOLO D'ACHILLE and DOMENICO PROIETTI: Tuscan, Florentine, and Italian: External historyCHAPTER 3: CLAUDIO MARAZZINI: The history of Italian: The roles of literature and economicsCHAPTER 4: BRIAN RICHARDSON: The questione della lingua in the RenaissanceCHAPTER 5: NIGEL VINCENT: The questione della lingua: Nineteenth and twentieth centuriesCHAPTER 6: ALVISE ANDREOSE: GrammaticographyCHAPTER 7: HELENA SANSON: Women in the history of the Italian languagePART II. Historical linguisticsCHAPTER 8: LORI REPETTI and JORDAN KODNER: Historical phonologyCHAPTER 9: MARTIN MAIDEN: Historical morphologyCHAPTER 10: ADAM LEDGEWAY: Historical syntaxCHAPTER 11: LORENZO RENZI: Address systems and their historyCHAPTER 12: NIGEL VINCENT: Archaism and innovationPART III. Structures of ItalianCHAPTER 13: PIETRO MATURI: Orthography and writingCHAPTER 14: ANTONIO ROMANO: PhoneticsCHAPTER 15: LAURA VANELLI: PhonologyCHAPTER 16: FRANCK FLORICIC: Inflexional morphologyCHAPTER 17: MARIA GROSSMANN and ANNA M. THORNTON: Derivational morphology and compoundingCHAPTER 18: MARIA SILVIA MICHELI: Evaluative morphologyCHAPTER 19: LUIGI ANDRIANI and GIUSEPPINA SILVESTRI: The nominal groupCHAPTER 20: ADAM LEDGEWAY: Verbal groupCHAPTER 21: EVA-MARIA REMBERGER: The clauseCHAPTER 22: SANDRA PAOLI and JACQUELINE VISCONTI: PragmaticsCHAPTER 23: DELIA BENTLEY and SILVIO CRUSCHINA: Information structureCHAPTER 24: CHIARA GIANOLLO: SemanticsCHAPTER 25: LUCA LORENZETTI: The lexicon: Onomasiology and semasiologyPART IV. SociolinguisticsCHAPTER 26: MASSIMO CERRUTI: StandardizationCHAPTER 27: GABRIELE IANNACCARO, VITTORIO DELL'AQUILA, and SIMONE CICCOLONE: MultilingualismCHAPTER 28: ANNA-MARIA DE CESARE: Diamesic variation and registersCHAPTER 29: MARI D'AGOSTINO: Diastratic variationCHAPTER 30: FRANCESCA DOVETTO: Gender and languagePART V. Italian outside of ItalyCHAPTER 31: LAURA BARANZINI: Italian in SwitzerlandCHAPTER 32: DANIELE BAGLIONI: Italian in the Mediterranean areaCHAPTER 33: RAFFAELLA BOMBI: Italian around the worldPART VI. Italian in contactCHAPTER 34: LORENZO TOMASIN: Italian in contact: The Middle AgesCHAPTER 35: ALESSANDRO CARLUCCI: Italian in contact: The modern periodCHAPTER 36: FRANCESCO GOGLIA: Italian and immigrant languagesCHAPTER 37: MAURIZIO DARDANO and EMANUELE VENTURA: Popular Italian and its historyCHAPTER 38: DIEGO PESCARINI: Northern regional ItalianCHAPTER 39: TANIA PACIARONI: Central regional ItalianCHAPTER 40: FRANCESCO AVOLIO: Southern regional ItalianCHAPTER 41: LUCIA MOLINU and SIMONE PISANO: Regional Italian of Sardinia.