Lorenzo Renzi (

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Biography

Lecturer of Romance philology at the Paduan Athenaeum, he has chaired the Società Linguistica Italiana. He is the author of several works in the field of linguistics.Renzi

Main works

* ''La lingua italiana oggi: un problema scolastico e sociale'', a cura di Lorenzo Renzi e M. A. Cortelazzo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1977. * ''Grande Grammatica italiana di consultazione'', a cura di L.Renzi, Giampaolo Salvi e Anna Cardinaletti, 3 voll., Bologna, Il Mulino, 1991. * ''Le tendenze dell’italiano contemporaneo. Note sul cambiamento linguistico nel breve periodo'', in "Studi di Lessicografia italiana", XVII, 2000, pp. 279–319. * ''Etimologia scientifica e etimologia retorica'', in ''L'Accademia della Crusca per Giovanni Nencioni'', Firenze, Le Lettere, 2002, pp. 465–482. * ''Il cambiamento linguistico nell'italiano contemporaneo'', in N. Maraschio e T. Poggi Salani (a cura di), ''Italia linguistica anno Mille, Italia linguistica anno Duemila'', Roma, Bulzoni, 2003, pp. 37–52. * ''Il controllo ortografico del computer come tutore della norma dell’italiano'', in ''Gli italiani e la lingua'', a cura di Franco Lo Piparo e Giovanni Ruffino, Palermo, Sellerio, 2005, pp. 199–208. * ''Manuale di Linguistica e Filologia romanza'', (con A. Andreose), Bologna, il Mulino, 2003. * ''Grammatica dell’italiano antico'', a cura di Giampaolo Salvi e Lorenzo Renzi, Bologna, il Mulino, 2010, 2 voll., pp. 1745.

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1939 births Living people Writers from Rome Romance philologists Italian philologists Linguists from Italy Grammarians of Italian Grammarians from Italy {{Italy-linguist-stub