Search results for " LINGUISTICA"

Cinema e parole

2022

Partendo dall’osservazione che c’è lingua nel cinema e c’è cinema nella lingua, questo piccolo libro mostra la pertinenza di ambedue i membri di questa osservazione e lo fa da prospettive originali e inconsuete, facendo del cinema un’occasione per occuparsi di lingua e della lingua un modo per parlare di cinema. Ecco allora che, indagando i modi del funzionamento di una famosa gag linguistico di Totò e Peppino, si mette in luce l’ambiguità del titolo e, conseguentemente, dell’interpretazione complessiva della pellicola più celebrata e ricordata di Ettore Scola. I tratti espressivi dell’attore Nanni Moretti diventano strumento per comprendere i caratteri ispiratori del Nanni Moretti regista.…

Toward a Cognitive Classical Linguistics. Introduction

2019

The article introduce a collective volume that gathers a series of papers bringing together the study of grammatical and syntactic constructions in Greek and Latin under the perspective of theories of embodied meaning developed in cognitive linguistics. It presents an overview of the studies in this recent field and highlights various open-ended issues.

Toward a Cognitive Classical Linguistics. The Embodied Basis of Constructions in Greek and Latin

2019

The volume that gathers a series of papers bringing together the study of grammatical and syntactic constructions in Greek and Latin under the perspective of theories of embodied meaning developed in cognitive linguistics.

Secret Language/Codes/Magical Language

2013

The entry treats both of magical language and some secret codes used in ancient Greece.

Costruzioni Grammaticali: una varietà di etichette metalinguistiche

2013

Quantifying nouns in Italian

2012

L'estrazione automatica dei ruoli semantici corradicali. The importance of being Cognate

2022

This study will introduce a tool – termed NLPYTALY – for the automatictreatment of naturally-occurring texts in Italian. The tool distinguishesconstructs with an ordinary verb from those with a support verb. Mean-ing is rendered by using cognate (i.e. etymologically related) semantic roles (CSR), which differ from other roles because they are expressed withthe content morpheme of the predicate licensing arguments. CSRs offer anumber of advantages: they can be semi-automatically derived and use the who-does-what model. Besides, they facilitate the detection of anaphoric chains and produce a foreground/background opposition of the namedentities. Finally, they permit the construction of a chro…

Asymmetries in path encoding in Sicilian: A diachronic overview

2017

This talk aims at describing the encoding of path within the system of spatial relations in Sicilian, an Italo-Romance language spoken in Sicily and its satellite islands. In general terms, spatial relations in Sicilian remain largely unexplored in the light of the current linguistic theories. As a consequence, the first point addressed in the proposed description is the comparison of Sicilian data with the cross-linguistic scenario. It is generally argued in the relevant literature that the encoding of path appears to be less autonomous compared to source, goal, and location at the cross-linguistic level, and its encoding is frequently based on location (see Stolz 1992). In Sicilian, the s…

Passive in motion: the Early Italian auxiliary andare (‘to go’)

2014

The Italian construction andare ‘to go’ + (transitive) past participle expresses a passive meaning when occurring in a perfective past tense (1), whereas it conveys an additional deontic sense of (impersonal) obligation when used in an imperfective tense (2) (Bertinetto 1991; Giacalone Ramat 2000). A further constraint on the passive reading is represented by the semantics of the participle, necessarily expressing a negative value of ‘loss/destruction’; this value is moreover conceived as ‘non-intentional’, as the impossibility to express the agent (*da qualcuno) shows: (1) I documenti andarono distrutti. (*da qualcuno) the documents go. prf.3pl destroy.pst.ptcp.pl (by someone) ‘The documen…

Un tweet ci seppellirà? Il nuovo ordine del discorso politico nell'Italia post-berlusconiana

2015

L’articolo affronta il tema delle nuove frontiere della comunicazione politica nell’Italia uscita dai venti anni in cui la scena è stata occupata quasi esclusivamente da Silvio Berlusconi. In particolare l’autore si concentra sul leader politico che oggi rappresenta meglio il passaggio, sul piano simbolico, da una comunicazione politica di matrice televisiva a una pensata idealmente per essere fruita nel mondo digitale: Matteo Renzi. L’intento del lavoro è quello di individuare i tratti salienti dell’ordine discorsivo costruito dall’attuale presidente del Consiglio italiano. L’autore sottolinea, servendosi anche di esempi tratti da discorsi parlamentari, saggi, interventi televisivi e sui s…