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Italian

Italian Studies at Stockholm university consist of five main areas: Italian Literature, Italian Linguistics, Italian Second Language Acquisition, Italian Historical Linguistics and Italian Philology. Both experienced researchers and doctoral students are active in this research field, in collaboration with national and international research networks.

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Italian Historical Linguistics

Italian historical linguistics is concerned with the evolution of linguistic structures from Latin to Italian and their development from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth century.

Italian Historical Linguistics

Italian Linguistics

Italian linguistics is concerned with the linguistic structures of contemporary Italian. Moreover, it studies the use of contemporary Italian in literary and non-literary texts.

Italian Linguistics

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Italian Literature

The research area Italian literature is a very broad field that examines literary texts in different genres, from different epochs and from a variety of theoretical perspectives.

Italian Literature

Italian Philology

Italian philology is the study of literary and non-literary texts written in Italian or in one of the Italian dialects from the Middle Ages to the present.

Italian Philology

Italian Second Language Acquisition

At Stockholm University research is conducted within in the field of second language acquisition, where the learning of the Romance languages in particular is in focus.

Italian Second Language Acquisition

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