Degree words / / by Dwight Bolinger |
Autore | Bolinger Dwight <1907-1992.> |
Edizione | [Reprint 2013] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | The Hague : , : Mouton, , 1972 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (324 p.) |
Disciplina | 425 |
Collana | Janua linguarum. Series maior |
Soggetto topico |
English language - Comparison
English language - Noun English language - Verb |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 3-11-087778-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- WORKS REFERRED TO BY AUTHORS' NAMES ALONE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. INTENSIFIERA WITH ADJECTIVES -- 2. SOME RESTRICTIONS ON INTENSIFIERS PRIMARILY WITH ADJECTIVES -- 3. THE INTENSIFICATION OF NOUNS -- 4. THE MAKING OF INTENSIFIERS BY GRAMMATICAL SHIFTS -- 5. LITOTES AND NEGATION -- 6. INTENSIFIERS WITH THE PREPOSITION OF -- 7. PROSODIC INTERFERENCE AND THE INDEFINITE ARTICLE -- 8. DEGREE NOUNS WITH RELATIVELY UNGRAMMATICIZED INTENSIFIERS -- 9. INTENSIFIERA WITH VERBS -- 10. DEGREE VERBS AND ADJECTIVES WITH SO AND HOW -- 11. MUCH WITH VERBS -- 12. DEGREE VERBS WITH OTHER GRAMMATICIZED INTENSIFIERS -- 13. DEGREE VERBS WITH RELATIVELY UNGRAMMATICIZED INTENSIFIERS -- 14. FORMALIZED REDUNDANCY AND SEMANTIC ANALYSIS -- 15. INTENSIFICATION BY STRETCHING -- 16. THE INTENSIFICATION OF NOUNS THAT PREMODIFY -- 17. WHY DEGREE NOUNS BEHAVE LIKE PRONOUNS -- APPENDIX -- POSTSCRIPT -- MAIN INDEX -- WORD INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464156203321 |
Bolinger Dwight <1907-1992.> | ||
The Hague : , : Mouton, , 1972 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Degree words / / Dwight Bolinger |
Autore | Bolinger Dwight <1907-1992.> |
Edizione | [Reprint 2013] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | The Hague : , : Mouton, , 1972 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (324 pages) |
Disciplina | 425 |
Collana | Janua linguarum. Series maior |
Soggetto topico |
English language - Comparison
English language - Noun English language - Verb |
ISBN | 3-11-087778-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- WORKS REFERRED TO BY AUTHORS' NAMES ALONE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. INTENSIFIERA WITH ADJECTIVES -- 2. SOME RESTRICTIONS ON INTENSIFIERS PRIMARILY WITH ADJECTIVES -- 3. THE INTENSIFICATION OF NOUNS -- 4. THE MAKING OF INTENSIFIERS BY GRAMMATICAL SHIFTS -- 5. LITOTES AND NEGATION -- 6. INTENSIFIERS WITH THE PREPOSITION OF -- 7. PROSODIC INTERFERENCE AND THE INDEFINITE ARTICLE -- 8. DEGREE NOUNS WITH RELATIVELY UNGRAMMATICIZED INTENSIFIERS -- 9. INTENSIFIERA WITH VERBS -- 10. DEGREE VERBS AND ADJECTIVES WITH SO AND HOW -- 11. MUCH WITH VERBS -- 12. DEGREE VERBS WITH OTHER GRAMMATICIZED INTENSIFIERS -- 13. DEGREE VERBS WITH RELATIVELY UNGRAMMATICIZED INTENSIFIERS -- 14. FORMALIZED REDUNDANCY AND SEMANTIC ANALYSIS -- 15. INTENSIFICATION BY STRETCHING -- 16. THE INTENSIFICATION OF NOUNS THAT PREMODIFY -- 17. WHY DEGREE NOUNS BEHAVE LIKE PRONOUNS -- APPENDIX -- POSTSCRIPT -- MAIN INDEX -- WORD INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788702803321 |
Bolinger Dwight <1907-1992.> | ||
The Hague : , : Mouton, , 1972 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Degree words / / Dwight Bolinger |
Autore | Bolinger Dwight <1907-1992.> |
Edizione | [Reprint 2013] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | The Hague : , : Mouton, , 1972 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (324 pages) |
Disciplina | 425 |
Collana | Janua linguarum. Series maior |
Soggetto topico |
English language - Comparison
English language - Noun English language - Verb |
ISBN | 3-11-087778-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- WORKS REFERRED TO BY AUTHORS' NAMES ALONE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. INTENSIFIERA WITH ADJECTIVES -- 2. SOME RESTRICTIONS ON INTENSIFIERS PRIMARILY WITH ADJECTIVES -- 3. THE INTENSIFICATION OF NOUNS -- 4. THE MAKING OF INTENSIFIERS BY GRAMMATICAL SHIFTS -- 5. LITOTES AND NEGATION -- 6. INTENSIFIERS WITH THE PREPOSITION OF -- 7. PROSODIC INTERFERENCE AND THE INDEFINITE ARTICLE -- 8. DEGREE NOUNS WITH RELATIVELY UNGRAMMATICIZED INTENSIFIERS -- 9. INTENSIFIERA WITH VERBS -- 10. DEGREE VERBS AND ADJECTIVES WITH SO AND HOW -- 11. MUCH WITH VERBS -- 12. DEGREE VERBS WITH OTHER GRAMMATICIZED INTENSIFIERS -- 13. DEGREE VERBS WITH RELATIVELY UNGRAMMATICIZED INTENSIFIERS -- 14. FORMALIZED REDUNDANCY AND SEMANTIC ANALYSIS -- 15. INTENSIFICATION BY STRETCHING -- 16. THE INTENSIFICATION OF NOUNS THAT PREMODIFY -- 17. WHY DEGREE NOUNS BEHAVE LIKE PRONOUNS -- APPENDIX -- POSTSCRIPT -- MAIN INDEX -- WORD INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825007803321 |
Bolinger Dwight <1907-1992.> | ||
The Hague : , : Mouton, , 1972 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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English abstract nouns as conceptual shells : from corpus to cognition / / Hans-Jörg Schmid |
Autore | Schmid Hans-Jörg |
Edizione | [Reprint 2012] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (472 p.) |
Disciplina | 425 |
Collana |
Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]
Topics in English linguistics |
Soggetto topico |
English language - Noun phrase
English language - Noun |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
3-11-174943-6
3-11-080870-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Foundations: Theory, terminology and methodology -- Approaching shell nouns -- The term shell noun -- Defining shell nouns and shell-content complexes in functional terms -- A brief note on the theoretical stance -- The links between shell nouns and contents -- Triggering co-interpretation -- Lexico-grammatical patterns of shell-noun uses -- From identity of reference to experiential identity -- The semantic contributions of different types of complements: a survey of the evidence from verbal complementation -- Basic functions of shell-noun typical patterns -- The systematic investigation of shell nouns -- The From-Corpus-to-Cognition Principle -- Data retrieval -- Cleaning up the data -- Systematic misses of the corpus inquiry -- A survey of the results of the corpus inquiry -- Semantic prerequisites -- Abstractness -- Extensional abstractness and classes of abstract entities -- Stylistic abstractness and grammatical metaphor -- Unspecificity and structure-inherent semantic gaps -- The use of shell nouns -- Describing shell-noun uses -- Degrees of typicality -- Explaining the meanings of shell-noun uses: features and frames -- Factual uses -- Neutral uses -- Causal uses -- Evidential uses -- Comparative uses -- Partitive uses -- Attitudinal factual uses -- Linguistic uses -- Propositional uses -- Illocutionary uses -- Assertive uses -- Rogative uses -- Directive uses -- Commissive uses -- Expressive uses -- Mental uses -- Conceptual uses -- Psychological-state uses -- Creditive uses -- Dubitative uses -- Volitional uses. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453532103321 |
Schmid Hans-Jörg | ||
Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 2000 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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English abstract nouns as conceptual shells : from corpus to cognition / / Hans-Jörg Schmid |
Autore | Schmid Hans-Jörg |
Edizione | [Reprint 2012] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (472 p.) |
Disciplina | 425 |
Collana |
Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]
Topics in English linguistics |
Soggetto topico |
English language - Noun phrase
English language - Noun |
ISBN |
3-11-174943-6
3-11-080870-6 |
Classificazione | HF 300 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Foundations: Theory, terminology and methodology -- Approaching shell nouns -- The term shell noun -- Defining shell nouns and shell-content complexes in functional terms -- A brief note on the theoretical stance -- The links between shell nouns and contents -- Triggering co-interpretation -- Lexico-grammatical patterns of shell-noun uses -- From identity of reference to experiential identity -- The semantic contributions of different types of complements: a survey of the evidence from verbal complementation -- Basic functions of shell-noun typical patterns -- The systematic investigation of shell nouns -- The From-Corpus-to-Cognition Principle -- Data retrieval -- Cleaning up the data -- Systematic misses of the corpus inquiry -- A survey of the results of the corpus inquiry -- Semantic prerequisites -- Abstractness -- Extensional abstractness and classes of abstract entities -- Stylistic abstractness and grammatical metaphor -- Unspecificity and structure-inherent semantic gaps -- The use of shell nouns -- Describing shell-noun uses -- Degrees of typicality -- Explaining the meanings of shell-noun uses: features and frames -- Factual uses -- Neutral uses -- Causal uses -- Evidential uses -- Comparative uses -- Partitive uses -- Attitudinal factual uses -- Linguistic uses -- Propositional uses -- Illocutionary uses -- Assertive uses -- Rogative uses -- Directive uses -- Commissive uses -- Expressive uses -- Mental uses -- Conceptual uses -- Psychological-state uses -- Creditive uses -- Dubitative uses -- Volitional uses. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790718503321 |
Schmid Hans-Jörg | ||
Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 2000 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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English abstract nouns as conceptual shells : from corpus to cognition / / Hans-Jörg Schmid |
Autore | Schmid Hans-Jörg |
Edizione | [Reprint 2012] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (472 p.) |
Disciplina | 425 |
Collana |
Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]
Topics in English linguistics |
Soggetto topico |
English language - Noun phrase
English language - Noun |
ISBN |
3-11-174943-6
3-11-080870-6 |
Classificazione | HF 300 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Foundations: Theory, terminology and methodology -- Approaching shell nouns -- The term shell noun -- Defining shell nouns and shell-content complexes in functional terms -- A brief note on the theoretical stance -- The links between shell nouns and contents -- Triggering co-interpretation -- Lexico-grammatical patterns of shell-noun uses -- From identity of reference to experiential identity -- The semantic contributions of different types of complements: a survey of the evidence from verbal complementation -- Basic functions of shell-noun typical patterns -- The systematic investigation of shell nouns -- The From-Corpus-to-Cognition Principle -- Data retrieval -- Cleaning up the data -- Systematic misses of the corpus inquiry -- A survey of the results of the corpus inquiry -- Semantic prerequisites -- Abstractness -- Extensional abstractness and classes of abstract entities -- Stylistic abstractness and grammatical metaphor -- Unspecificity and structure-inherent semantic gaps -- The use of shell nouns -- Describing shell-noun uses -- Degrees of typicality -- Explaining the meanings of shell-noun uses: features and frames -- Factual uses -- Neutral uses -- Causal uses -- Evidential uses -- Comparative uses -- Partitive uses -- Attitudinal factual uses -- Linguistic uses -- Propositional uses -- Illocutionary uses -- Assertive uses -- Rogative uses -- Directive uses -- Commissive uses -- Expressive uses -- Mental uses -- Conceptual uses -- Psychological-state uses -- Creditive uses -- Dubitative uses -- Volitional uses. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827447203321 |
Schmid Hans-Jörg | ||
Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 2000 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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English general nouns [[electronic resource] ] : a corpus theoretical approach / / Michaela Mahlberg |
Autore | Mahlberg Michaela |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : John Benjamins, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (217 p.) |
Disciplina | 425/.54 |
Collana | Studies in corpus linguistics |
Soggetto topico |
English language - Noun
English language - Discourse analysis Computational linguistics |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-15623-3
9786612156236 90-272-9394-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910449918403321 |
Mahlberg Michaela | ||
Philadelphia, : John Benjamins, 2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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English general nouns [[electronic resource] ] : a corpus theoretical approach / / Michaela Mahlberg |
Autore | Mahlberg Michaela |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : John Benjamins, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (217 p.) |
Disciplina | 425/.54 |
Collana | Studies in corpus linguistics |
Soggetto topico |
English language - Noun
English language - Discourse analysis Computational linguistics |
ISBN |
1-282-15623-3
9786612156236 90-272-9394-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783426603321 |
Mahlberg Michaela | ||
Philadelphia, : John Benjamins, 2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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English general nouns : a corpus theoretical approach / / Michaela Mahlberg |
Autore | Mahlberg Michaela |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : John Benjamins, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (217 p.) |
Disciplina | 425/.54 |
Collana | Studies in corpus linguistics |
Soggetto topico |
English language - Noun
English language - Discourse analysis Computational linguistics |
ISBN |
1-282-15623-3
9786612156236 90-272-9394-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
English General Nouns -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The attention they have been getting -- Introduction -- 1.1. Halliday & -- Hasan's (1976) approach -- 1.2. The class of general nouns -- 1.3. The cohesive function of general nouns: Continuum and context -- 1.4. Corpus linguistic findings -- Conclusion -- Notes -- The corpus linguistic point of view -- Introduction -- 2.1. Electronic corpora and the study of language -- 2.2. Corpus linguistics: Theory and methodology -- 2.2.1. Corpus-based versus corpus-driven approaches -- 2.2.2. Technical possibilities and descriptive tools -- 2.3. A lexical approach to the description of English -- 2.3.1. The lexical item -- 2.3.2. The Pattern Grammar -- 2.3.3. Lexical priming -- 2.3.4. Lexis, grammar, and text: Differences in the corpus-driven approach -- 2.4. A corpus theoretical approach to general nouns -- 2.4.1. The corpus theoretical framework -- 2.4.2. Minimal assumptions for the study of general nouns -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Minimal assumptions in practice -- Introduction -- 3.1. The corpora of the present study -- 3.2. Frequency -- 3.2.1. What does the computer count? -- 3.2.2. Frequency lists and key words -- 3.2.3. Frequency and general nouns -- 3.2.4. The nouns in the corpus study -- 3.3. Context -- 3.3.1. Analysing concordance data -- 3.3.2. Dynamic categories and ad hoc labels -- Conclusion -- Note -- Time nouns -- Introduction -- 4.1. Time nouns - an overview -- Time orientation -- Measurement -- Investing time -- Time passes -- History, life -- School, university -- Evaluation and text organisation -- Combinations -- Other examples -- 4.2. Time orientation -- 4.3. Investing time -- Concordance 4.2 The 15 examples in the investing time group -- 4.4. Evaluation and text organisation -- 4.5. The fuzziness of meaning.
4.6. The need for local categories of description -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Appendix -- 100 concordance lines for time -- 100 concordance lines for times -- 100 concordance lines for year -- 100 concordance lines for years -- 100 concordance lines for day -- People nouns -- Introduction -- 5.1. People nouns - an overview -- 5.1.1. Meanings of people nouns -- Concordance 5.1 The first 25 examples of man -- 5.1.2. The descriptive tool `person' -- 5.2. man and woman -- 5.2.1. The introducing function -- 5.2.2. The characterising function -- 5.2.3. The continuity function -- 5.2.4. The meaning of a noun in its narrow context: The support function -- 5.3. men and women -- Concordance 5.2 The 21 examples of men of category C that occur without determiners and modifiers -- Concordance 5.3 The 32 examples of women of category C that occur without determiners and modifiers -- 5.4. people -- Concordance 5.4 The 29 examples of people without determiners and modifiers -- 5.5. family -- 5.6. People nouns - the group -- Concordance 5.6 Some examples of government -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- 100 concordance lines for man -- 100 concordance lines for men -- 100 concordance lines for women -- 100 concordance lines for people -- World nouns -- Introduction -- 6.1. The diversity of meanings of world nouns -- Concordance 6.1 50 examples of part -- Concordance 6.2 Some examples of way -- 6.2. Evaluation in discourse -- 6.2.1. Language use and language functions -- 6.2.2. Approaching evaluation -- 6.2.3. Corpus linguistics and evaluation -- 6.3. Evaluative meanings of world nouns -- 6.3.1. Adjective patterns with general nouns -- 6.3.2. Evaluative patterns of world nouns -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Re-examining the minimal assumptions -- Introduction -- 7.1. Frequency -- 7.1.1. Meaning and paraphrase -- 7.1.2. Frequent nouns as characteristics of texts. 7.2. General nouns and the word class noun -- 7.3. Context -- 7.3.1. Subgroups of nouns -- 7.3.2. Local textual functions of general nouns -- 7.4. What are general nouns? -- 7.4.1. Quantitative and qualitative features of general nouns -- 7.4.2. General nouns and cohesion -- 7.4.3. A corpus linguistic view on general nouns -- Conclusion -- Note -- Developing the corpus linguistic theory -- Introduction -- 8.1. The methodology of the corpus study -- 8.2. Even more attention is needed -- 8.2.1. Future work -- 8.2.2. Applications -- 8.3. Describing meaning in text: A flexible approach -- 8.3.1. The elusiveness of meaning -- 8.3.2. The corpus linguistic theory - where are we now? -- 8.3.3. Flexible grammar -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- References -- Index -- The series Studies in Corpus Linguistics. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827522303321 |
Mahlberg Michaela | ||
Philadelphia, : John Benjamins, 2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Grammatical number in English nouns [[electronic resource] ] : an empirical and theoretical account / / Mark A. Wickens |
Autore | Wickens Mark A |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1992 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvii, 321 pages) |
Disciplina | 425 |
Collana | Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory |
Soggetto topico |
English language - Number
English language - Noun |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-31327-8
9786613313270 90-272-7753-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
GRAMMATICAL NUMBER IN ENGLISH NOUNS AN EMPIRICAL AND THEORETICAL ACCOUNT; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Table of contents; Abbreviations and initialisms of periodicals and reference works; Introduction; CHAPTER 1. Ailment names; CHAPTER 2. Liquid names; CHAPTER 3. Nouns in -ings; CHAPTER 4. The names of binary objects; CHAPTER 5. The abstract -s; CHAPTER 6. The external singulars; CHAPTER 7. Problems and prospects; Conclusion; APPENDIX A. Supplementary examples of drop and tear; APPENDIX B. Additional binary tool names
APPENDIX C. Binary tool names in zero Supplementary examples of the species sense APPENDIX D. Additional bifurcate garment names; APPENDIX E. Bifurcate garment names in zero Supplementary examples of the species sense; APPENDIX F. Bifurcate garment names in zero Supplementary examples of the generic sense; APPENDIX G. Long john, pajama, bikini, brief, hip-hugger pant, panty and short Supplementary examples; APPENDIX H. Additional binary optical device names; APPENDIX I. Binary optical device names in zero Supplementary examples of the species sense; APPENDIX J. Additional terms of claim APPENDIX K. Bellow and s-singulars - supplementary examples APPENDIX L. Other external singulars; References; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457522103321 |
Wickens Mark A | ||
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1992 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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