Oslo. Professor Vera Gheno chairs a conference on the Italian language on 5 September at the Italian Cultural Institute in Oslo titled “And yet it moves: the Italian language and its history through the centuries.” Since the first documents of the Italian language, such as the Placiti Cassinesi, the grammars of the sixteenth century and the ‘Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca’ (Crusca Academy) of 1612 to the almost incomprehensible jargon of technological communications: where does Italian language come from and where is it headed? One often hears of ‘the decadence of the Italian language’ between a return to illiteracy and the ‘invasion’ of English loanwords. However, how true is this statement? (9Colonne)
