1897-1059 Internationalisms, Anglo-Latinisms and other kinship ties between Italian and English Pulcini Virginia author Università degli Studi di Torino Correspondence to: Virginia Pulcini virginia.pulcini@unito.it 17 06 2019 Volume 136, Issue 2 2019 121 141 Copyright © 2019 2019 <p>In the analysis of language contact and borrowing, the category of internationalism denotes lexical items that are formally and semantically similar across unrelated languages, mainly of neo-classical origin. Internationalisms are characteristically unmarked for a specific national provenance, like the pair En <em>electricity </em>/ It <em>elettricità</em>. On the other hand, many similar examples, such as En <em>romantic </em>and It romantico, are the result of borrowings from English into Italian, a fact that can be established only on historical grounds, because the word itself does not reveal any trace of foreignness to the lay Italian speaker, being Italian a Latin-based language. 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