Luca Serianni (; 30 October 1947 – 21 July 2022) was an Italian

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and

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Biography

Serianni was professor of Italian language at Sapienza Università di Roma. A student of Arrigo Castellani, he conducted research about Italian linguistic history from the

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to the present day. He authored a reference grammar of the

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. Together with Maurizio Trifone he was in charge of the ''Vocabolario della lingua Italiana Il Devoto-Oli'', and with Pietro Trifone he edited ''Storia della lingua italiana''. He was a member of the Accademia della Crusca, Accademia dei Lincei, Arcadia, and vice-chairman of the

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. In 2002, he was awarded an honorary degree from the

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. He was the director of the journals ''Studi linguistici italiani'' (Italian Linguistic Studies) and ''Studi di lessicografia italiana'' (Studies of Italian Lexicography).

Main works

*''Il Turamino'', a cura di Luca Serianni, Salerno Editrice, Rome, 1976 *''Testi pratesi della fine del Dugento e dei primi del Trecento'', a cura di Luca Serianni, Accademia della Crusca, Florence, 1977 *''Norma dei puristi e lingua d'uso nell'Ottocento nella testimonianza del lessicografo romano Tommaso Azzocchi'', Accademia della Crusca, Florence, 1981 *''Grammatica italiana. Suoni, forme, costrutti'', in collaborazione con Alberto Castelvecchi, Utet, Turin, 1989 *''Storia della lingua italiana. Il primo Ottocento'', Il Mulino, Bologna, 1989 *''Saggi di Storia linguistica italiana'', Morano, Naples, 1989 *''Storia della lingua italiana. Il secondo Ottocento'', Il Mulino, Bologna, 1990 *''Storia della lingua italiana'', a cura di Luca Serianni e Pietro Trifone, 3 vol., Einaudi, Turin 1993–1994 *''Italiano. Grammatica, sintassi, dubbi'',Grammatica
/ref> con Alberto Castelvecchi e un glossario di Giuseppe Patota, Garzanti, collana editoriale ''Le Garzantine'', Milan, 1997 *''Lezioni di grammatica storica italiana'', Bulzoni, Rome, 1998 *''Introduzione alla lingua poetica italiana'', Carocci, Rome, 2001 *''Viaggiatori, musicisti, poeti. Saggi di storia della lingua italiana'', Garzanti, Milan, 2002 *''Italiani scritti'', Il Mulino, Bologna, 2003 (second edition: 2007) *''Un treno di sintomi. I medici e le parole: percorsi linguistici nel passato e nel presente'', Garzanti, Milan, 2005 *''Prima lezione di grammatica'', Laterza, Rome-Bari, 2006 *''La lingua poetica italiana'', Carocci, Rome, 2008 *(con Giuseppe Benedetti), ''Scritti sui banchi. L'italiano a scuola tra alunni e insegnanti'', Rome, Carocci, 2009 * ''L'ora d'italiano'', Rome-Bari, Laterza, 2010

References

External links

Scheda su Luca Serianni dal sito dell'Accademia della Crusca
URL consultato il 2 giugno 2009
Intervista (in 6 video) a Luca Serianni sull'italiano e su questioni di politica linguistica effettuata nell'Istituto italiano di cultura di Lione il 23 ottobre 2008
URL consultato il 5 settembre 2009 {{DEFAULTSORT:Serianni, Luca 1947 births 2022 deaths Sapienza University of Rome faculty Members of the Lincean Academy Members of the Academy of Arcadians Linguists from Italy Italian philologists Grammarians of Italian Grammarians from Italy People from Rome