This manual aims to provide a systematic and up-to-date overview of Italian linguistics taking into account new research topics such as Italian outside of Italy, historical varieties, or the syntactic properties of early Italian. Particular focus will be placed on linguistic subfields that have grown more important and relevant in the past years and decades, such as pragmatics, textual linguistics, corpus linguistics, or language acquisition.

Sergio Lubello, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy.