Search results for " Greek"

Rock decay phenomena and collapse processes in the “Latomiae del Paradiso” in Syracuse (Sicily)

2014

The Latomiae (origin: Greek latomia, from laas, las stone plus –tomia tomy ) del Paradiso in Syracuse are Magna Graecia rock quarries, located in the coastal areas of Southern Italy and internationally renowned for their impressive environment. The few historical technical records do not help clarify the events that led to their current configuration since a series of instability phenomena occurred due to decay processes over time. Through a geotechnical back-analysis, this work highlights the failure phenomena, which may have led to the current configuration of the easterly side of the Latomiae del Paradiso. The back-analysis process was carried out by means of numerical modelling, support…

Bianche macule sopra il bianco

2019

Greek text with Italian version, introduction and notes of Ghiannis Ritsos' unedited work "ASPRES KILIDES PANO STO ASPRO"

STRATEGIE DI CODIFICA LINGUISTICA DEGLI EVENTI DI MOVIMENTO NEL GRECO OMERICO

INHERENT TELICITY AND PROTO- INDO-EUROPEAN VERBAL PARADIGMS

2016

In recent aspectual classi}cations telicity is described as a compositional syntactic property, and verbs are analyzed as complex structures made up of completely neutral roots. However, semantic changes due to both derivational processes and di‰erent syntactic contexts could have obscured the relationship between root lexical aspect and verb morphological paradigms. The purpose of this paper is to show that telicity can be considered as an inherent lexical property: the co-occurrence in a sentence with arguments, adverbials or speci}c pragmatic contexts which can (de)telicize the event described by a verb has consequences at syntactic level, whereas the prototypical aspect of the root is p…

Il pensiero linguistico nella Grecia arcaica e classica

2016

Il saggio è un'analisi delle principali idee sul linguaggio nel pensiero greco arcaico e classico (da Omero ad Aristotele) con particolare riferimento alla tematica del rapporto tra verità ed efficacia. The paper is a study of the main ideas on language in ancient Greek thought (from Homer to Aristotle) with a particular focus on the relationship between truth and efficacy.

Verb inflection in Ancient Greek and Sanskrit and auxiliation patterns in French and Italian. Forms, functions, system

2009

This paper deals with the complex interaction between form and function in the verb morphosyntax of four Indo-European languages (French, Italian, Ancient Greek and Sanskrit). Beyond the difference in form, auxiliation patterns in French and Italian, and verb inflections in Ancient Greek and Sanskrit correlate, thanks to the agreement for number and person, to the expression of the relationship with the Subject. The different auxiliation patterns (sum and habeo) and the different inflections (middle and active) correlate to different properties of the Subject. In particular, these forms depend on the syntactic opposition between middle and non-middle. The ways of this dependency are regulat…

Some notes to the language of two late byzantine poems

2019

Los poemas bizantinos titulados Συναξάριον τοῦ τιμημένου γαδάρου y Γαδάρου, λύκου κι ἀλουποὺς διήγησις ὡραία ofrecen un ejemplo significativo y claro de la interacción entre dos variedades lingüísticas opuestas: de un lado, el griego literario empleado para la composición poética; de otro, el griego popular que iba poco a poco ganando terreno con vistas a reemplazar a la lengua antigua.

Ancient Greek οι-stem

2019

Abstract The semantics of ancient Indo-European noun stems has not yet received enough attention from scholars. However, the noun stems exhibit an inner semantic coherence arranged in accordance with the basic linguistic principles of categorisation. My aim in this paper is to demonstrate the internal semantic coherence of the Ancient Greek οι-stem noun category and to compare it with other well-studied morphosemantic categories in order to suggest a particular meaning structure.

Root lexical features and inflectional marking of tense in Proto-Indo-European

2009

This paper examines early inflectional morphology related to the tense-aspect system of Proto-Indo-European. It will be argued that historical linguistics can shed light on the long-standing debate over the emergence of tense-aspect morphology in language acquisition. The dispute over this issue is well-known; it has been pursued mostly by scholars following various general linguistic approaches, from typology to acquisition, but also by historical linguists and Indo-Europeanists, who have long debated about the precedence of aspect or tense from both a synchronic and a diachronic perspective. However, so far Indo-Europeanists have rarely confronted their results in a successful way with re…

Why Phaedrus? Plato in Virginia Woolf’s novel <i>Jacob’s Room</i>

2012

Recent criticism has addressed the Platonic and ancient Greek influences on Virginia Woolf’s writings generally, and her novel Jacob’s Room specifically, but there has been no accounting of the motivation for the specific use of Plato’s dialogue Phaedrus in the latter novel. This essay will address how Jacob’s Room engages closely with this dialogue not only with regard to thematic focal points of love and rhetoric, but also in terms of more encompassing structures of space and literary form. In the process, a less ironic approach to Plato and his philosophy than that argued for in much recent criticism comes to light in Woolf’s complex negotiations with the precedent of Victorian Hellenism.