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23-580: Casarano ( Salentino : Casaranu ) is a town and sixth most populous comune in the Italian province of Lecce , in the Apulia region of South-East Italy . The town's economy is mostly agriculture-based, with olive oil being the main product. The Church of Santa Maria Della Croce is one of the oldest Christian sites in the world. This Apulia location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Salentino Salentino

46-460: A particular grammatical form or set of forms; these may have a variety of uses, not all of which will necessarily refer to present time. For example, in the English sentence "My train leaves tomorrow morning", the verb form leaves is said to be in the present tense, even though in this particular context it refers to an event in future time. Similarly, in the historical present , the present tense

69-580: A result, their usages and forms are similar. The Latin present tense can be translated as progressive or simple present. Here are examples of the present indicative tense conjugation in Latin . In French , the present tense is used similarly to that of English. Below is an example of present tense conjugation in French . The present indicative is commonly used to express the present continuous. For example, Jean mange may be translated as John eats , John

92-550: Is Oronzo Miggiano. The pseudonym by which it is known was chosen for specific reasons: the name Horace refers to the Latin poet with whom he shares the satirical character of his works; while Testarotta is the Italian translation of the capiruttu dialect because it always fell to the ground. His is a poem that uses satire to denounce the political and social situation of the time. In fact, there are three fundamental themes on which it

115-426: Is a grammatical tense whose principal function is to locate a situation or event in the present time. The present tense is used for actions which are happening now. In order to explain and understand present tense, it is useful to imagine time as a line on which the past tense , the present and the future tense are positioned. The term present tense is usually used in descriptions of specific languages to refer to

138-638: Is a dialect of the Extreme Southern Italian language group (in Italian Italiano meridionale estremo ). It is thus closer to the Southern Calabrian dialect and the dialects of Sicily than to the geographically less distant dialects of central and northern Apulia . The traditional areas where Salentino is spoken are the aforementioned Province of Lecce , much of the southern part of the province of Brindisi , and

161-460: Is based: the political and social condition from fascism to the republican age ; the condition of the people in relation to the economy; the industrial and technological progress that disrupts the entire system. Giuseppe Susanna (1851-1929): his poetry has an ideological and progressive function, therefore in stark contrast to the previous dialectal poetry. The main objective in Susanna's works

184-400: Is eating . To emphasise the present continuous, expressions such as "en train de" may be used. For example, Jean est en train de manger may be translated as John is eating , John is in the middle of eating. On est en train de chercher un nouvel appartement may be translated as We are looking for a new apartment , We are in the process of finding a new apartment. In Italian ,

207-467: Is particularly the case in condition clauses and many other adverbial subordinate clauses: If you see him,... ; As soon as they arrive... There is also the historical present , in which the present tense is used to narrate past events. For details of the uses of present tense constructions in English, see Uses of English verb forms . In Modern Greek , the present tense is used in a similar way to

230-465: Is the emancipation of the proletariat and peasants , based on a language no longer sentimental like that of the late 1800s. Pietro Gatti di Ceglie Messapica (1913-2013): together with Nicola G. De Donno and Erminio Caputo, he is one of the greatest representatives of that generation of authors who worked especially in the post-war period. It is a period characterized by greater freedom of writing and continuous experimentation. Above all, dialect poetry

253-439: Is used to narrate events that occurred in the past. There are two common types of present tense form in most Indo-European languages : the present indicative (the combination of present tense and indicative mood ) and the present subjunctive (the combination of present tense and subjunctive mood). The present tense is mainly classified into four parts or subtenses. The present indicative of most verbs in modern English has

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276-917: The Tarantino and Barese dialect, and their similarities with other varieties of Sicilian, particularly those found in Calabria . In Sicily efforts have been made by the non-profit Cadèmia Siciliana to standardise the orthography for written insular Sicilian. They have also adopted a 'polycentric' approach which suggests that Salentino should have its own orthography within a family of Sicilian orthographies. Salentino has 5 vowels and an SOV ( subject , object , verb ) word order . There are six persons: jeu (I), tu (you, singular), idhu/idha (he,it/she,it), nui (we), vui (you, plural), idhi/idhe (they). And there are six tenses: present , imperfect , remote past , past perfect , past pluperfect, plus remote past. Orazio Testarotta di Taviano (1870-1964): his real name

299-405: The present progressive (or present continuous) (e.g. am writing ), the present perfect (e.g. have written ), and the present perfect progressive (e.g. have been writing ). Use of the present tense does not always imply the present time. In particular, the present tense is often used to refer to future events ( I am seeing James tomorrow ; My train leaves at 3 o'clock this afternoon ). This

322-488: The Salento peninsula, rather than one to describe a unified standard language spoken throughout the area. Indeed, in common with most other Italian languages, there are no agreed standards for spelling, grammar or pronunciation, with each locality and even generation having its own peculiarities. What unites the various local dialects of the Salento is their shared differences from the dialects further north in Apulia , such as

345-585: The generation of writers born in the first thirty years of the century. Born to Salento parents, he settled in Lecce in 1965, after occasional stays in Tuscany and marche. Unlike De Donno, who was an important point of reference for him, his is a predominantly religious poetics , linked not so much to the external reality that surrounds him, but to the inner, intimate reality of the soul. Present tense The present tense ( abbreviated PRES or PRS )

368-494: The modern Salentino–and Greek -based dialects in roughly equal measure. The areas of Greek speech have retreated over time, but Salento remains one of two areas of southern Italy, the other being southern Calabria, where Griko can still be heard in some villages (today known collectively as the Grecìa Salentina ). The term Salentino should be considered a general word to describe the various Romance vernaculars of

391-692: The phonology and the lexicon of this language. Salentino is thus a derivative of local dialects of Vulgar Latin , with a strong Greek substratum. The oldest text in Salentino is in the margin notes of a copy of the Mishnah known as Parma A written between 1072 and 1073. It is written in the Judeo-Salentino dialect of Salentino which is now extinct. During the Middle Ages , the area was home to both Romance -based dialects–the precursors to

414-523: The present indicative tense of imperfective verbs is used in a very similar way to the present indicative in English. It can also be used as present progressive. Below is an example of present indicative tense conjugation in Bulgarian. * Archaic, no infinitive in the modern language. The present tense in Macedonian is expressed using imperfective verbs. The following table shows the conjugation of

437-495: The present tense in English and can represent the present continuous as well. As with some other conjugations in Greek, some verbs in the present tense accept different (but equivalent) forms of use for the same person. What follows are examples of present tense conjugation in Greek for the verbs βλέπω (see), τρώω (eat) and αγαπώ (love). The Romance languages are derived from Latin , and in particular western Vulgar Latin . As

460-522: The present tense is used similarly to that of English. What follows is an example of present indicative tense conjugation in Italian . The present tenses of Portuguese and Spanish are similar in form, and are used in similar ways. What follows are examples of the present indicative conjugation in Portuguese . There follow examples of the corresponding conjugation in Spanish . In Bulgarian ,

483-447: The same form as the infinitive, except for the third-person singular form, which takes the ending -[e]s . The verb be has the forms am , is , are . For details, see English verbs . For the present subjunctive, see English subjunctive . A number of multi-word constructions exist to express the combinations of present tense with the basic form of the present tense is called the simple present ; there are also constructions known as

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506-466: The southern part of Taranto province. The Salentino dialect is a product of the different powers and/or populations that have had a presence in the peninsula over the centuries: indigenous Messapian , Ancient Greek , Roman , Byzantine Greek , Lombard , French and Spanish influences are all, to differing levels, present in the modern dialect, but the Greek substratum has had a particular impact on

529-549: Was radically renewed, now characterized by strong individualism and subjectivism . Nicola Giuseppe De Donno di Maglie (1920-2004): he is part of the generation of authors born between 1915 and 1930. In his works he deals with very current themes and problems, ranging from autobiographism to satire to religious or social topics . It uses dialect as an autonomous language, free from any expressive compromise. Erminio Caputo (born in Campobasso, in 1921): he also belongs to

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