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Peer reviewedJoseph, John Earl – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1980
The schema generally used to describe the linguistic situation in Italy includes two categories: dialetto regionale (regional dialect) and italiano regionale (regional Italian). These stand apart from the widely accepted sociolinguistic model "variety--dialect--language." It is demonstrated that both these categories should be treated…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Italian, Language Classification
