I remember reading something recently and it may have been in one of Martin
Maiden's books, The Italian Dialects, 1998 Routledge or A Linguistic History
of Italian also Rutledge, 1995. I may be wrong in my sources, though. I know
about two years ago I read a quite extensive piece about this type of
language "play" in Italian and it, in fact, compared it to the French
Verlan-like code you speak of.
Robert
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elmar Schafroth [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 1999 5:28 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: "Verlan" in Italian
>
> Dear Martina,
>
> thank you very much for your investigation. Well, me too, I read
> something about verlan-like codes in some Northern Italian dialects.
> But whether they are vital or productive, about this there seems to be
> no literature.
>
> I'm looking forward to hearing from you
>
> Bye
>
> Elmar
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