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John J. Nitti

Author of 501 Portuguese Verbs

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Works by John J. Nitti

501 Portuguese Verbs (2005) 195 copies
201 Portuguese Verbs (1974) 35 copies

Associated Works

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Latin America and the Caribbean (1985) — Contributor, some editions — 56 copies

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Canonical name
Nitti, John J.
Birthdate
1943
Gender
male
Nationality
USA
Birthplace
Yonkers, New York, USA
Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison (PhD|1972)
Occupations
professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Organizations
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Short biography
John J. Nitti earned a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was a professor of Spanish and Portuguese for more than fifteen years. His history with exploring Old Spanish lexicography led to major government funding from the U.S. and Spain, allowing him (along with his mentor, Lloyd Kasten) to devise innovative ways to bring computing to bear on the Old Spanish Dictionary project, which the Wisconsin Seminary of Medieval Spanish Studies had been at work on since the 1930s. In addition to his directorship of the Old Spanish Dictionary project (1975-2001), Nitti and Kasten founded the Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies (HSMS), initially to disseminate the large numbers of transcripts and other materials that the dictionary project was producing.

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501 of the most common Portuguese verbs are presented fully conjugated in all their tenses. This is an invaluable aid, especially for irregular verbs. Each verb and its tneses fills one page; at the bottom of each page are useful examples of verb usage.

As well as an English-Portuguese verb index, there is a Portuguese-English verb index that goes beyond the verbs in the main part of the book; very usefully, for those that are irregular or need pronouns, a model verb in the main part of the book is given as an example for conjugation. While Brasilian Portuguese does not use reflexive verbs as much as Spanish, there are plenty of examples of the use of reflexive verbs.

This book is practically a must as an aid for studying Portuguese.
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