Keywords

• The essay reconstructs De Mauroâ€
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• s figure with regard to his researches which represent the basis of his education as a historical linguist. From the first etymological studies (announcing his great lexicographical works) to the publications dedicated to the ancient grammar
• De Mauroâ€
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• s research activity is moved by his interests in historical linguistic. The first edition of Storia linguistica dellâ€
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• Italia unita marks a deep cut in his scholar career
• besides in the Italian linguistic
• and the author seeks to find any connections between this writing and previous glottologic researches
• pointing out that the protagonists are no longer the single terms
• nor their comparison in a diachronic deepness
• but the Italian language itself in its complexity
• and maybe even more the culture and the society penetrating such language