Abstract
The paper deals with the diastratic variety of Italian produced by university students. The corpus on which the analysis is based consists of 75 summaries of an article by Umberto Eco, published in the newspaper La Stampa; the summaries were written during the exam named Prova di composizione italiana (Italian Composition). The analysis focuses on the two phenomena of marked word order structures (such as left-dislocations and cleft sentences) and the selection of variants of third person singular subject pronouns. My finding is that as for the two investigated phenomena students follow the standard, conservative norm instead of the more innovative one, called italiano neostandard.
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