Linguistic article
The semantic specialization of third person pronoun ‘esso’ as (−human) in standard Italian
Article outline
- Introduction
- 1.Previous studies
- 2.Data presentation and discussion
- 2.1Methodology
- 2.2Quantitative data (1525–1923)
- 2.3Qualitative data (1525–1827)
- 3.Manzoni
- 3.1Esso’s specialization and Manzoni’s linguistic ideology
- 4.Conclusions
- Notes
-
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