Pietro Trifone


Pietro Trifone, is an Italian linguist.

Biography

Trifone lectures History of Italian language at the department of Philology, linguistics and literature of the University of Rome Tor Vergata. He has also led research work at the Sapienza Università di Roma, D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara and Foreigners University of Siena.
With Maurizio Dardano he has written a reference grammar of the Italian language. With Luca Serianni he has edited the Storia della lingua italiana in three volumes, with contributions by fifty scholars.
His research activity embraces various fields, ranging from the analysis of grammatical structures of contemporary Italian to the history of literary and popular language, mainly with reference to the relationship between linguistic change and social life.
He also carried out studies on the following topics:
- plurilingualism of 16th century ;
- language of politics ;
- Roman dialect and regional varieties of Italian ;
- language of theatre ;
- Italian language of the Renaissance ;
- Italian linguistic identity ;
- Italian "irregular" language from Dante until today ;
- linguistic impact of national factionalism ;
- diffusion of the common Italian language.
From 1996 to 2004 he held the office of Rector of the Foreigners University of Siena. Currently in the University of Rome Tor Vergata he holds the position of coordinator of the PhD in Comparative Studies.
He is member of the Accademia della Crusca, of the Accademia dell'Arcadia, of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Romani and co-director of the magazines «La lingua italiana. Storia, strutture, testi» and «Carte di viaggio. Studi di lingua e letteratura italiana».

Main works