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Spatial Cognition and Frames of Reference in Indo-European
2022
The development of Frames of Reference (FoRs) as coordinate systems in space language has gained increasing attention in current linguistic, neurolinguistic, and psycholinguistic research (Diessel 2013: 687; Kemmerer 2010). Previous studies on typology of spatial expressions have traditionally been based on the universal status of the egocentric or relative FoR found in the Indo- European languages, in which the relation between Figure and Ground is specified by the deictic observer’s viewpoint (Mühlhäusler 2001). However, there is growing crosslinguistic evidence that many non-Indo-European languages do not make use of such deictic or ternary FoR, but interpret spatial relations by referri…
Spatial representations of the future in Homeric Greek
The aim of this paper is to investigate the space-time mapping of the future in Homeric Greek. It is widely accepted that the spatial adverbs πρόσσω ‘in front’ and ὀπίσσω ‘behind’ in the Homeric poems are used to portray temporal events located in a sequence of aligned entities that follow one after the other on the same path (Dunkel 1983: 66). In such a temporal sequence, or Time-RP model, those adverbs are associated respectively to past and future events in a dichotomous spatial representation of time, without involving a deictic ego-experiencer. After analyzing data from the Homeric poems in a cognitive linguistic perspective, it is found that some temporal uses of the preposition πρό ‘…
La prima Ispania di Nikos Kazantzakis (1927)
2012
Studio sulla prima edizione del resoconto di viaggio in Spagna di Kazantzakis Study on the first edition of Kazantzakis' travel report to Spain
Tools, Human Development and Mathematics
2016
This chapter raises a number of issues from pre-history and history that one mathematics educator considers ‘worthy of mention’ with regard to tools and mathematics. These issues are: tool use in the development of the human species (phylogenesis); tool use in a mathematical culture, ancient Greek mathematics that goes beyond the obvious tools; an example from ancient Indian mathematics that bears some resemblances to Jon’s experimental mathematics described in Chap. 3; the mutual support of hand, mind and artefact in expert use of an abacus; a consideration of a period (sixteenth-century Europe) where there was a rapid advance in the development of mathematical tools.
Non sono atti degli apostoli ma scritti demoniaci. Il movimento enkratita nell’Anatolia tardoantica: iscrizioni, eresiologi e testi apocrifi
2017
Different sources (epigraphical, literary, apocryphal) can be used to analyse the Christian heretical sects connected to an enkratite movement (Enkratites, Apotactites, Sakkophoroi, Hydroparastatai, Aerians), which was characterised by radical forms of self-restraint (enkrateia). Epigraphical documents are helpful in setting these communities in the rural background of late antique Anatolia (4th-5th cent. AD). On the other side the apocryphal acts of the apostles offer important hints on social and economic ideas developed by Enkratites and throw new light on their specific Christian Weltanschauung.
Guerre, tasse, contadini ed eresia. Note preliminari per un’analisi socio-economica dell’insorgenza del montanismo in Frigia.
2012
E' ben noto che la documentazione epigrafica può contribuire utilmente alla comprensione storica dei fenomeni religiosi in un particolare contesto socio-economico: è questo il caso del movimento montanista, sorto nella Frigia rurale all'epoca di Marco Aurelio (intorno al 171). Un'importante iscrizione di Süsüzoren, che riproduce un rescritto di Settimio Severo ai propri coloni dei villaggi di Tymion e Simoe, ha infatti chiarito la collocazione di Tymion, già nota come una delle due 'città sante' dei montanisti (insieme alla più famosa Pepuza), all'interno dei dominii imperiali di Frigia e mostrato il 'lamento' dei contadini locali a fronte di una esazione fiscale sentita come gravemente opp…
Anomalie dell’evergetismo in tempo di guerra: i notabili della provincia d’Asia tra arruolamenti e fiscalità d’emergenza al tempo di Marco Aurelio.
2011
Sul suppletivismo verbale in Omero: l’apporto della prospettiva tipologica talmiana
2020
This paper aims at investigating the partially uncertain relationship on which the suppletion of the Homeric verbal forms within the paradigm for ‘go’ is based. For this purpose, the Homeric distribution of some motion verbs for ‘go’, as well as their contexts of use, are taken into account. In the light of Talmy’s theoretical framework of the lexicalization patterns, the analysis focuses on the motion events expressed by ἔρχομαι and ἦλϑον (fut. ἐλεύσομαι, pf. εἰλήλουϑα) and their cooccurring spatial elements, i.e. particles, adverbs, nominal case markers, which encode the path followed by the moving object. Building on telicity as a verb-inherent actional feature (i.e. Lexical Aspect), and…
Desarrollo de concepciones de aprendizaje y estrategias metacognitivas de estudiantes de Latin y Griego en Italia y España
2020
Per migliorare l'uso delle strategie di apprendimento, la ricerca suggerisce, tra i possibili altri elementi, di considerare le variabili metacognitive di studenti e insegnanti. Tuttavia mancano ancora studi specifici su questo argomento per quanto riguarda l'insegnamento del latino e del greco, considerando che queste materie sopravvivono con difficoltà in diversi sistemi educativi. Lo studio si concentra sull'Italia e sulla Spagna, perché si sviluppa nell'ambito di un dottorato in co-tutela internazionale tra i due Paesi. La conoscenza dei due sistemi educativi, italiano e spagnolo, ci ha mostrato che gli studenti spagnoli iniziano prima degli italiani a studiare “Cultura classica”. Inolt…
Teachers' perceptions of student engagement and teacher self-efficacy beliefs
2014
This study examines the teachers’ perceptions of student engagement, teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs, and their interrelation. Affective engagement can be understood as belonging or relatedness as well as identification with school. Cognitive engagement can be conceived as engagement in classroom, self-regulation, learning goals and a student’s overall investment in learning. Measuring students’ engagement is crucial in that it helps educators predict and, by amending current teaching practices and policies, avoid poor performance or even drop-out. The teacher’s belief in herself and her potential is critical for the students’ overall performance in class. This study attempts to investigate…