\part{Introductory analysis of Italian}

This book aims to study Italian grammar from the 'traditional' perspective rather than the 'theoretical'.

\chapter{Linguistic typology of Italian}


Italian is an SVO, fusional synthetic language.







\section{Grammatical and lexical categories}

Lexical categories are classes of words with similar grammatical properties.

Italian lexical categories are essentially analogous to those of English.

\begin{itemize}
	\item sostantivo (noun)
	\item verbo (verb)
	\item articolo (article)
	\item aggettivo (adjective)
	\item avverbio (adverb)
	\item pronomo (pronoun)
	\item congiunzione (conjunction)
	\item interiezione (interjection)
	\item numerale (numeral)
	\item preposizione (preposition)
\end{itemize}

We will analyze the basic

\subsection{Nouns}
Gerally words that represent objects and subjects (person, place, thing, idea, etc.)

gender
number

mela
cane
casa
fiore




\subsection{Verbs}
Words that represent actions or predicates between objects and subjects

verb class
mood
tense
aspect
person 
number

indicativo
presente
passato prossimo
imperfetto
futuro semplice
passato remoto
trapassato prossimo
trapassato remoto
futuro anteriore


imperativo
presente

condizionale
presente
passato

congiuntivo
presente
passato
imperfetto
trapassato

There are also the nonfinite forms of infinitives gerunds and past participles.




\subsection{Adjectives}
Words that modify a noun either directly or by the copula.
gender
number



\subsection{Adverbs}

\subsection{Articles}

Word modifying a noun to describe whether it refers to a specific or general instance (or instances) of that noun .
Italian has 1 article in the language that has 7 different forms that inflect based on the following

gender
number
euphonics


\subsection{Pronouns}
Context-sensitive words that substitute nouns or noun phrases
uninflectional
\subsection{Conjunctions}
words that connect 
uninflectional
\subsection{Interjections}
uninflectional
\subsection{Numerals}
Words that represent numerals
uninflectional
\subsection{Prepositions}
uninflectional

\section{Gender in Italian}

Maschile (masculine)
Femminile (feminine)