Comin, Antonio
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Antonio Comin (born Cornuda, Italy, 9.10.1933) migrated with his family to Australia in 1936. He is a graduate of the University of Sydney and the Università degli Studi di Firenze. He taught at the University of Sydney, the University of Melbourne and the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) before joining Flinders University in 1970 as Professor of Italian, a post he retained until his retirement in 1996. His main teaching and research areas have been Italian Language, Italian Dialectology and Traditional Italian Culture. He has been and continues to be active in promoting Italian theatre as a performer, director and writer.
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Cornudese rustico e cornudese di piazza: stratificazione socio-fonomorfologica di un dialetto trevigiano
(The Italian Discipline, Flinders University of South Australia, 1992)Il comune di Cornuda che da Treviso porta a Feltre, s'incrocia con la strada che, partendo da Castelfranco Veneto, si congiunge poi con la 348 sopra Onigo. Il centro dell'abitato è invece situato un poco più a nord ... -
Italian in South Australia: Successes and Failures
(The Italian Discipline, Flinders University of South Australia, 1993)The question of the teaching of Italian in South Australia can be viewed from a number of different perspectives. Comin's approach in this paper is from the point of view of a tertiary educator. -
La luna e la ginestra: Atto unico
(The Italian Discipline, Flinders University of South Australia, 1989)A one act play inspired by Giacomo Leopardi's poetry.