Galician-Italian Dictionary of False Friends

This dictionary collects and describes false friends between Galician and Italian: lexical units that show formal similarity across the two languages but diverge in meaning, usage, combinatorial restrictions or connotations. Each entry provides the correct equivalents, examples drawn from real corpora and, where relevant, observations of a pragmatic, register-related or cultural nature.

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To describe contrastively the identified pairs of false friends between Galician and Italian, to provide the correct equivalents in each language, and to document usage through examples drawn from real corpora. Where the entry requires it, observations of a pragmatic, register-related or cultural nature are included.

The resource is aimed at Galician-speaking students learning Italian and Italian-speaking students learning Galician, as well as experts in translation, teaching and research in contrastive linguistics and bilingual lexicography. Its added value lies both in the scarce attention received so far by the Galician-Italian language pair and in the applied vocation of the project.

María Teresa Sanmarco Bande (dir.), Marilena Ceccarelli, María Fuciños, Barbara Galeandro, Silvana Lameiro, Claudia Seivane, Gonzalo Valiñas, Ana Vázquez

Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

mt.sanmarco@usc.es