!!Tullio De Mauro

[Tullio De Mauro|http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/tullio-de-mauro_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29] in ''Biographical Dictionary of Italians'' by Federico Albano Leoni\\
[Obituary|http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/cultura/2017-01-06/un-linguista-democratico--170348.shtml?uuid=AD39D4QC] by Luca Serianni (in Italian)\\
[Obituary|https://accademiadellacrusca.it/it/contenuti/il-necrologio-di-claudio-marazzini-per-tullio-de-mauro-su-il-tirreno/6439] by Claudio Marazzini, president of Accademia della Crusca (in Italian)\\
Raffaele Simone, “Scegliere le parole: una battaglia civile. Tullio De Mauro 1932/2017”, ''L’Espresso'', 15/1/2017, pp. 92-93.
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Tullio De Mauro is the author of a Grande dizionario italiano dell‘uso (1. ed. 1999, 2. ed., 8 vols with docking station, UTET, Torino 2007) [http://cultura.utet.it/cultura/catalogo/details.jsp?id=633]. The contemporary dictionary contains 250,000 words which in turn become a vocabulary of nearly 400,000 items when words are used in combination, either in common or technical expressions.
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