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- ↑ Grammatica sardo-campidanese
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- ↑ Grammatica (Sardo-Italiano)
- ↑ Arrègulas po ortografia, fonètica, morfologia e fueddàriu de sa Norma Campidanesa de sa Lìngua Sarda (PDF). Alfa Editrice. 2009. ISBN 9788885995475.
- ↑ Lorenzo Renzi, Alvise Andreose (2009). Manuale di linguistica e filologia romanza. Il Mulino. p. 56.
- ↑ Simone Pisano. "Il futuro e il condizionale analitici in alcune varietà sarde moderne: genesi di marche grammaticali da forme verbali lessicalmente piene" (PDF). Filologia sarda. p. 161.
- ↑ Propostas isperimentales de unos cantos liniamentos grammaticales comunes de sa limba sarda