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==Semantic evolution==
− Dante uses ''mio'' for “peculiar to me, my own” before 1321, and as a pronoun, “mine”, in 1313–1319, Giamboni already has it without a noun, “what is mine”.^(DELI 1999) The plural ''i miei'' “my family, my parents” is recorded before 1347 in Bartolomeo da San Concordio.^(DELI 1999)
+ Dante uses ''mio'' for “peculiar to me, my own” before 1321, and as a pronoun, “mine”, in 1313–1319;^(DELI 1999) Giamboni already has it without a noun, “what is mine”.^(DELI 1999) The plural ''i miei'' “my family, my parents” is recorded before 1347 in Bartolomeo da San Concordio.^(DELI 1999)
With singular nouns of kinship the possessive takes no article (''mio padre'', ''mia sorella''), but it does with plural or modified ones (''i miei fratelli'', ''il mio caro zio'') and with affectionate forms (''la mia sorellina''); usage varies with ''mamma'' and ''papà''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Zingarelli 2010) Placed after the noun it is emphatic or vocative: ''a casa mia'', ''figlio mio!''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026) It forms common exclamations, ''mamma mia!'', ''Dio mio!''.^(GRADIT 2003) In the 1970s the feminist slogan ''io sono mia'' “I am my own” claimed women's right to decide about their own lives.^(Gabrielli 2020)