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Melazzo
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A proposito di un lemma del glossario Harley
2018
The paper examines an entry of the Harley Glossary going back to a period between the second half of the 10th and the first half of the 11th century AD. Once the source has been found from which the lemma was taken, the Latin interpretation qualifies as a Latin calque from Old-English.
Verbs and Predicates in Ancient Greece
2019
The author starts by reading an excerpt by Symplicius of Cilicia where it is said that Aristotle spoke of the category action established as mere action and taken as a genus. This category was connected with dispositions of the mind corresponding to verbs. Equally there existed mere affection too. It is precisely the verbs that could convey either action or affection, and the two categories action and affection were drawn from the active and passive verbs. These verbs, however, are not the same as those called upright and overturned by the Stoics. While Aristotle took mere action and mere affection into account, the Stoics were interested in predicates, and predicates definitely correspond …