&c or the Infarinato’s page

On this page I have collected a few nugae, which might be of some interest to the most insane among us. For the time being, they are mainly of a linguistic nature, and hence I nicknamed this page “the Infarinato's page”. “Infarinato” is the pseudonym used by Lionardo Salviati, one of the founders of the Accademia della Crusca, and the same one I have been using in taking part in its on-line Forum.

If you are still reading, then you might also be interested in Cruscate, a new discussion board on the Italian language.

Preprints

• Accento grafico su i e u: grave o acuto? (The accent on i and u: grave or acute?, Italian, PDF, 112 KB). This essay is concerned with a problem of modern Italian orthography, which might be regarded as trivial by some, but, in Italy, remains the subject of continuing academic debate.
• Fonologia etrusca e fonetica toscana: il problema del sostrato (Etruscan phonology and Tuscan phonetics: the substratum problem, Italian, PDF, 104 KB). This paper is by and large a summary of Agostiniani & Giannelli (1983) [see bibliography] supplemented by some recent references and ended by some personal remarks on today's Tuscan phonetics.
• Una nota su L’origine del raddoppiamento fonosintattico di M. Loporcaro (A note on L’origine del raddoppiamento fonosintattico by M. Loporcaro, Italian, PDF, 112 KB): a few remarks on this outstanding essay about the origin of Standard Italian “raddoppiamento [fono]sintattico” (“[phono]syntactic reduplication”).
• A note on Syllable Structure vs. Segmental Phonotactics: Geminates and Clusters in Italian Revisited by K. McCrary (English, PDF, 122 KB): a critique of a series of papers by Kristie McCrary on Standard Italian syllable structure.