Maurizio Trifone
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Maurizio Trifone (born 1953) is an
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Biography

Trifone is professor of
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. From 1995 to 2005 he was professor of
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. Previously, he was lexicographer and etymologist at the Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia
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. He has led research about Italian linguistic history from the Middle Ages to the present day. He has authored '' Il Devoto-Oli dei sinonimi e contrari'', a dictionary of synonyms and antonyms published by Le Monnier in 2013. Together with
Luca Serianni Luca Serianni (; 30 October 1947 – 21 July 2022) was an Italian linguist and philologist. Biography Serianni was professor of Italian language at Sapienza Università di Roma. A student of Arrigo Castellani, he conducted research about Itali ...
he is in charge of the ''Vocabolario della lingua Italiana Il Devoto-Oli''. From 2000 to 2005 he was director of the Language Centre at the
Foreigners University of Siena Foreigner most commonly refers to: * Alien (law), a person in a country who has fewer rights than a citizen or national * Foreigner (band), a British-American rock band It may also refer to: Music * ''Foreigner'' (Foreigner album), the 1977 deb ...
and he held training courses for Italian teachers in many countries around the world. He has created ''Affresco Italiano'', an Italian language course for foreigners in 6 volumes (from A1 to C2 levels). Since 2006 he is the editor of the magazine «Letterature straniere &» (Foreign Literatures &).Numbers of «Letterature straniere &» published by Aracne
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Main works

*''Aspetti linguistici della marginalità nella periferia romana'', Annali dell'Università per stranieri di Perugia (supplemento al n. 18), Guerra Edizioni, Perugia, 1993, pp. 207 *''Ordine analogico e retrodatazioni. A proposito del «Vocabolario Nomenclatore» di Palmiro Premoli'', in «Nuovi Annali della Facoltà di Magistero dell’Università di Messina», 12 (1994), pp. 135–236 *''Le carte di Battista Frangipane (1471-1500), nobile romano e mercante di campagna'', Universitätsverlag C. Winter, Heidelberg, 1998, pp. 531 (Collana ''Studia Romanica'', vol. n. 93) *''Lingua e società nella Roma rinascimentale. I. Testi e scriventi'', Franco Cesati Editore, Firenze, 1999, pp. 717 *''Carte mercantili a Roma tra ’400 e ’500'', Betti Editrice, Siena, 2003, pp. 238 *''Il linguaggio burocratico'', in ''Lingua e identità. Una storia sociale dell’italiano'', a cura di Pietro Trifone, Roma, Carocci, 2006, pp. 213-240 *''“Carbonaio” è una parola di alto uso? Riflessioni sul “Vocabolario di base” e sul “Dizionario di base della lingua italiana”'', in «Studi di Lessicografia italiana», XXIV (2007), pp. 265–300 *(con Antonella Filippone e Andreina Sgaglione) ''Affresco italiano. Corso di lingua italiana per stranieri'', 6 voll. (livelli A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2), Le Monnier-Mondadori, Firenze-Milano, 2007-2012 *''Il Devoto-Oli 2014. Vocabolario della lingua italiana'', a cura di
Luca Serianni Luca Serianni (; 30 October 1947 – 21 July 2022) was an Italian linguist and philologist. Biography Serianni was professor of Italian language at Sapienza Università di Roma. A student of Arrigo Castellani, he conducted research about Itali ...
e Maurizio Trifone, Le Monnier-Mondadori, Firenze-Milano, 2013, pp. 3227 *''Il Devoto-Oli dei Sinonimi e Contrari. Con analoghi, generici, specifici, inversi e gradazioni semantiche'', Le Monnier-Mondadori, Firenze-Milano, 2013, pp. 1536


References


External links


Professor page on the website of the University of Cagliari
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