Un nuovo tassello per la storia di "tipo"

Originally attested as a noun with either a taxonomic or a indefinite function, the word «tipo» has undergone a process of grammaticalization until it assumed the modern use of discursive signal. In this study we intend to add a piece to the history of this word, with particular reference to the first attestations of non-nominal uses. Some interesting witnesses allows us to identify, for the non-nominal uses of «tipo», a transition from a sectoral context to less marked contexts, in which the word has taken on different semantic features.