Giulio Ciro Lepschy, FBA (born 14 January 1935) is an Italian academic. He was Professor of Italian at the

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from 1975 to 1997. Born in 1935, Lepschy attended the

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and the

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. He carried out research at various European universities until 1964, when he was appointed to a lectureship at the

. He was promoted to a

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in 1967 and then to

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of Italian in 1975. He remained in that post full-time until 1997, when reduced his workload to part-time; he retired completely in 2000."Professor Giulio Lepschy FBA"
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''. Retrieved 10 September 2019. In 1987, Lepschy was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's

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for the humanities. The Academy awarded him its

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in 2000, awarded annually for "eminent services towards the furtherance of the study of Italian history, philosophy or music, literature, art, or economics.""Serena Medal"
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Bibliography

* Lepschy, Giulio C.. Some Problems in Linguistic Theory. United Kingdom, Academic Press, 1975. *Lepschy, Anna Laura, and Lepschy, Giulio C.. The Italian Language Today. United Kingdom, Routledge, 1992. *Lepschy, Giulio C.. Mother tongues and other reflections on the Italian language. Buffalo, University of Toronto Press, 2002. * *Lepschy, Giulio C.. History of Linguistics Volume II: Classical and Medieval Linguistics. United Kingdom, Taylor & Francis, 2014. *Lepschy, Giulio C.. History of Linguistics Vol III: Renaissance and Early Modern Linguistics. United Kingdom, Taylor & Francis, 2014. *Davies, Anna Morpurgo, and Lepschy, Giulio C.. History of Linguistics, Volume IV: Nineteenth-Century Linguistics. United Kingdom, Taylor & Francis, 2016. *Giulio C. Lepschy, A survey of structural linguistics, London: Faber & Faber, 1970. Pp. 192.

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