Italian Linguists: Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Leon Battista Alberti, Eduardo Blasco Ferrer, Ghil'ad Zuckermann, Fausto Veranzio, Jakov Mikalja

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Leon Battista Alberti, Eduardo Blasco Ferrer, Ghil'ad Zuckermann, Fausto Veranzio, Jakov Mikalja, Giorgio Levi Della Vida, Mario Alinei, Mario Pei, Nicola Tanda, Niccol Tommaseo, Andrea Moro, Luigi Pio Tessitori, Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Sergio Noja Noseda, Filippo Salvatore Gilii, Cesare Segre, Carlo Battisti, Graziadio Isaia Ascoli, Horacio Carochi, Oreste Vaccari, Alfredo Trombetti, Carla Bazzanella, Giovanni Filoteo Achillini, Luigi Rizzi, Marius Nizolius, Arturo Alfandari, Giovanni Spano, Matteo Bartoli, Luciano Canepari, Angelo Canini, Bruno Migliorini, Ignazio Guidi, Silvio Ceccato, Sabatino Moscati, Lino Pertile, Tullio De Mauro, Mario di Calasio, Giuliano Bonfante, Filippo Sassetti, Clotilde Tambroni. Excerpt: Ghil'ad Zuckermann (Hebrew:, simplified Chinese: traditional Chinese: pinyin: Zh g m n) (born June 1, 1971, in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an Israeli-Italian-British-Australian linguist, expert of language revival, contact linguistics, lexicology and the study of language, culture and identity. Zuckermann is Professor of Linguistics and Endangered Languages at the University of Adelaide and holds an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Fellowship, as well as a Project 211 Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Shanghai International Studies University. According to Zuckermann, "Israeli" (his term for Modern Hebrew) is a Semito-European hybrid language, simultaneously based on Hebrew, Yiddish and other languages such as Russian and Polish. His multi-parental hybridization model is in contrast to both the traditional revival view (i.e. that "Israeli" is Hebrew revived) and the relexification position (i.e. that "Israeli" is Yiddish with Hebrew words). Zuckermann's approach to language revival weakens the family tree tool in historical linguistics. His publications inclu...