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

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from 1975 to 1997. Born in

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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

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at the

. He was promoted to a readership in 1967 and then to

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of Italian in 1975. He remained in that post full-time until 1997, when he 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

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, 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"
''British Academy''. Retrieved 13 May 2018.

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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External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lepschy, Giulio Living people 1935 births Linguists from Venice University of Pisa alumni Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa alumni Academics of the University of Reading Fellows of the British Academy Italian academics 20th-century Italian linguists 21st-century linguists