Lorenzo Renzi (

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, 1939),

Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, a Romance ethnic group related to or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance languag ...

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

and

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also defined as the study of ...

Biography

Lecturer of Romance philology at the Paduan Athenaeum, he has chaired the

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. 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 Linguists of Italian Grammarians from Italy {{Italy-linguist-stub