Introduction This paper seeks to provide a detailed comparison between the English language and the Italian language. First of all, what is denoted by the terms English language and Italian language and where are these languages used. The free dictionary defines the term English language as” an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries.” It is estimated that three hundred and thirty five million (335,000,000) people uses this language, worldwide. On the other hand, the term Italian language is described as the official language of main land Italy, and approximately sixty million (60,000,000) people uses
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Language is used to aids in making conversations easier so that the communication process is clear and all parties involved in the conversation to understand each other clearly. This plays a very important role in both the English language and the Italian language so much so that they are a part of the school curriculums. However, making use of the English language in particular has changed as time goes by, this language has changed forms many times, it was old English , then middle English then early English and now modern English. During these times that structure of the language change consistently as well. Italian, on the other hand, has undergone changes which has resulted in a difficulty in the accepted form of Italian. This is so because over centuries, Italian writers and speakers has seek to communicate in their native dialects, thus producing a number of competing regional schools of literature. These changes in the use of both English and Italian has resulted in adverse changes in the accepted form of morphology, syntax, semantic, phonetics and phonology for both …show more content…
it is therefore very important to note that In English, words, particularly adjectives and nouns, are combined into compound structures in a variety of ways. And once they are formed, they sometimes metamorphose over time. A common pattern is that two words will be joined together to form one or they are sometimes joined by a hyphen. This speaks to the three main forms that are often used, closed form (example notebook), hyphenated(example daughter-in-law) form and open form (example half sister). As it relates to the Italian language, compound words are also used. However, it is interesting to note that the creation of compound words is one of the main means by which modern Italian increases its vocabulary. For example “capo” and “stazione” is joined to form “capostazione.” This is very much similar to the English
Language is used to aids in making conversations easier so that the communication process is clear and all parties involved in the conversation to understand each other clearly. This plays a very important role in both the English language and the Italian language so much so that they are a part of the school curriculums. However, making use of the English language in particular has changed as time goes by, this language has changed forms many times, it was old English , then middle English then early English and now modern English. During these times that structure of the language change consistently as well. Italian, on the other hand, has undergone changes which has resulted in a difficulty in the accepted form of Italian. This is so because over centuries, Italian writers and speakers has seek to communicate in their native dialects, thus producing a number of competing regional schools of literature. These changes in the use of both English and Italian has resulted in adverse changes in the accepted form of morphology, syntax, semantic, phonetics and phonology for both …show more content…
it is therefore very important to note that In English, words, particularly adjectives and nouns, are combined into compound structures in a variety of ways. And once they are formed, they sometimes metamorphose over time. A common pattern is that two words will be joined together to form one or they are sometimes joined by a hyphen. This speaks to the three main forms that are often used, closed form (example notebook), hyphenated(example daughter-in-law) form and open form (example half sister). As it relates to the Italian language, compound words are also used. However, it is interesting to note that the creation of compound words is one of the main means by which modern Italian increases its vocabulary. For example “capo” and “stazione” is joined to form “capostazione.” This is very much similar to the English