Scritti di filologia classica.

Roma, Ediz.di Storia e Letteratura 1976, cm.17x24, pp.273, 3 tavv.bn.ft. brossura intonso. Collana Storia e Letteratura. Raccolta di Studi e Testi,137.

Roma, Banca Naz.delle Comunicazioni 1983, cm.25x34, pp.306, 209 ill.e tavv.bn.nt. legatura ed.in tutta tela,soprac.fig. Ediz.speciale di 3000 copie num.

Tarquinia, Padova, Monastero delle Passioniste, Editrice Il Crivello, 1970, cm.15,5x21,5, pp.700, LIV ill.bn.in tavv.ft.+ 4 tavv.di planimetrie, legatura ed. sopraccop.ill. Collana Spirito nella Verità,1.

Alessandria, Edizioni dell'Orso 2004, cm.17x24, pp.XXVI,262, brossura copertina figurata a colori. Collana Quaderni della Sezione di Glottologia e Linguistica Supplementi. This study explores the problems of language shift on the example of Arbëresh, spoken by groups of Albanians who have migrated to the South of Italy in different waves since the 15th century. Three Arbëresh speaking communities – Campomarino, Portocannone and Ururi – form the focus of the sociolinguistic study, aiming to give a picture of the vitality Arbëresh. It was analysed from the perspective of the Arbëresh speakers’ competence and their attitudes towards Arbëresh and standard Albanian. From the analysis of the quantitative and qualitative data collected, an overwhelming decline of Arbëresh can be observed. This is reinforced by the speakers’ negative attitudes towards Arbëresh and standard Albanian. Some elements of revitalization can be found in the linguistic minorities’ status under the recent Italian law 482/1999, but a particular historical event seems to interfere and prevent any form of protection based upon the law. These results are applied in both a theoretical and a practical dimension. Theoretically, they shed light on the adequacy of existing models of language decline and death, as well as the type of efforts which should be undertaken in order to ensure language revitalization. Practically, suggestions about the implementation of the law 482/1999 are proposed.