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this is the most comprehensive grammar of the Sicilian language in English. Sicilian is a different language, not a dialect of Italian. Indeed it was the first poetic language of Italy. It was designed for use in the classroom but it can be used by self-learners. The grammar is accompanied by The Sounds of Sicilian by Gaetano Cipolla.
- Sales Rank: #1034322 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Legas Publishing
- Published on: 2008-10-02
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 2
- Dimensions: 9.50" h x 7.00" w x .50" l, .1 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 225 pages
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Review
Dr. Bonner's work ought to dispel the notion that Sicilian is not a language." --Arba Sicula XXVI, 2005
About the Author
J.Kirk Bonner holds a Ph.D. and has a special gift for languages. He has written also on Sicilian scientist Stanislao Cannizzaro. The editor is Gaetano Cipolla, President of Arba Sicula and Casa Sicilia.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Sicilia!
By Angelo
its a good book for anyone whos interested in learning sicilian. i like how it was somewhat standardized (anyone whos familar with sicilian knows that it is not generally written down, and therefore there is no real standard othography). its better for people that have some knowledge of italian or another romance language.
its not intended as a book for non-serious learners....there are no fun pictures of animals and whatnot to keep you entertained, as in other beginning language books.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Admirable book, but putting what you can learn into practice is difficult
By C. Wareham
As I live with a Sicilian, I decided to learn more about the Sicilian language in addition to Italian. The book is very well structured, starting with a very comprehensive pronunciation guide that also highlights the major differences to Italian - quite important if like me your also learning that language. It then covers all the major grammatical constructs in a clean and consistent way, before closing with a compact vocabulary.
However, putting what you learn from the book into practice may not be so straightforward. Sicilian has ten major dialects, which the book acknowledges, but they differ vastly in vocabulary and pronunciation. For instance the word "emu" (to go) is described as having a very soft "y" sound at the beginning followed by the fairly hard front vowel "a". Pronouncing it this way, rather than with just a very hard front vowel "a" is not how my partner pronounces it. Having run into this kind of problem a number of times, I asked my partner to read the book to see if it was my pronunciation that is at fault.
Her conclusion is that the book inadequately covers the differences between each dialect, something that is probably inevitable considering how poorly codified the language is. So while I recommend this book, I strongly suggest you also try to converse with a native speaker as early as possible. This is becoming more difficult though, as younger Sicilians (those born from the 1970's onwards) tend to know very little of the old language. As the book points out, this is a shame as it's very "earthy" and expressive.
27 of 28 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent for learning or reference
By Sean Burke
This is a must-have book for anyone interested in Sicilian as a language on its own, or interested in Italian dialects in general, or even anyone interested in Romance linguistics.
It manages to be both a teaching grammar and a reference grammar, and it is useful both for self-study and as a textbook for a class.
If you want to use this book for learning Sicilian on your own, it would help (but isn't necessary) if you are acquainted with standard Italian spelling system (so that letter-groups like "cchi�" won't seem too strange do you), and know a bit of another Romance language, so that the word order doesn't seem to strange to you, especially with verb forms like "portaccilli" ("carry them for him"). But this book is still useable (although more difficult) if you don't have that background, because the author carefully and clearly explains all the aspects of the grammar. As such, this book can almost serve as a model for teaching the more neglected Romance languages.
I should warn you about an inevitable problem you may face: the book uses the standard writing system for Sicilian, warts and all. For example, "in order to" is "pi" (pronounced like English "pea"), and "to go" is "iri", pronounced "yiri" (like English "yearly" without the "l"); but combining them produces a phonetic change that standard spelling sometimes writes as "pi iri" (not noting the change at all), or as "pi gghiri", expressing the geminate /g/ sound with the letter cluster "ggh" that is familiar only to students of standard mainland Italian. A more phonetic notation would always write "pi" with a symbol noting that it causes a phonetic change in the following word, and "iri" as "yiri", and would write the combined form as something like "pi-ggiri". However, if you learned from a book that used such a phonetic notation, you'd have a lot of trouble adjusting to the standard writing system that you'd see everywhere outside of such a book.
So the author works out a compromise: when he introduces a word like "pi" that changes the following word, he notes this by writing it "pi+" for a few pages; and when an unusual pronounciation occurs, the author very often marks it -- for example, noting that "pi iri" can also be written as "pi gghiri", or that "in vucca" (in the mouth) can also be written as "nvucca" or "mmucca", and so on.
Also, Italian stress is usually unmarked, but the author deals with that problem by boldfacing stressed syllables in some cases. But I wish that the author had done this everywhere, instead of just here and there. However, this is only a minor distraction for students. On the whole, the book is a model of clarity!
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