Search results for "Linguistica"

Lungimiranza e velleità nell'esperimento normalizzatore di Demetrio Camarda

2012

La questione alfabetica nelle pagine de "La Nazione Albanese"

2011

"Lavorare" il dato linguistico: prospettive e limiti. Alcune considerazioni dall'esperienza dell'Atlante Linguistico della Sicilia (ALS)

2018

The present work focuses on the relationship between linguistic research and the use of new technologies for linguistic data processing and analysis. Starting from the experience of the Atlante Linguistico della Sicilia (ALS), this paper describes a XML schema, based on the theory of trasferenza (transference) by Regis (2013), for the annotation and analysis of the data from the onomasiological questions of the ALS sociovariational questionnaire. Moreover, this modest case study tries to make clear the pros and cons of technological devices in linguistic research.

Tra uomo e donna. "Varianti sul tema" e invarianti nella scrittura

2018

Vengono individuate diverse riscritture grassiane che appaiono lungo il corso di 15 anni, ma che non si pongono lungo un continuum evolutivo. Non se ne coglie infatti un mutare evidente di usi linguistici o di istanze etico-estetiche che giustifichino i successivi e nuovi testi. Non ci sono, in quindici anni di riscrittura e nonostante i cambiamenti profondi delle sensibilità sociali sul tema del gender, attualizzazioni o integrazioni di segmenti narrativi: la Grasso reitera sempre gli stessi fotogrammi, quasi con le stesse parole e facendo riemergere sempre le stesse sensazioni. La protagonista, Enrichetta/Ninetta, non ha vita autonoma fuori dall’effetto suscitato nell’autrice bambina. Anc…

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…

The Syntax–Pragmatics Interface in Heritage Languages: The Use of anche (“Also”) in German Heritage Speakers of Italian

2023

This paper deals with the use of anche (“also”) by German heritage speakers of Italian (“IHSs”). Previous research showed that anche and its German counterpart auch share many features but also display language-specific characteristics. According to previous research on bilingualism, heritage speakers show cross-linguistic influence (“CLI”) when a linguistic phenomenon is at the syntax–pragmatics interface and there is a partial overlap in the two languages at stake. Therefore, we expect the use of anche in IHSs to be influenced by CLI. By analysing data from a semi-spontaneous corpus, we investigate the production of anche in order to understand which factors shape the grammar of the IHSs.…

Latin compounds

2012

Abstract This paper intends to offer a descriptive survey of compounding in Latin, updated with the findings of the most recent literature. In the first part it focuses on the nature of basic constituents of Latin compounds and on the differentiation between compounds and other kinds of constructions involving two or more constituents, such as (parasynthetic) derivatives and free phrases. In the second part the core patterns of Latin compounds are exemplified, focusing on Nominal and Verbal Compounding, and a classification according to formal and semantic characteristics is proposed. Finally conclusions are drawn, the results of the investigation summarized, and some useful questions for f…

Microvariation in the Distribution of Resumptive Pronouns in the Left Dislocation Construction in Two Tyrolean Dialects of Northern Italy

2023

In this paper we document a so-far neglected case of microvariation involving resumptive pronouns in the left-dislocation construction in Meranese, spoken in South Tyrol, and Mòcheno, spoken in the Fersina valley (Trentino). While in standard German resumptive elements in this construction belong to the class of D-pronouns, the two Tyrolean dialects considered in the paper exhibit, as resumptive pronouns, both (i) D-pronouns and (ii) pronominal usages of the distal demonstrative formed by the definite article (D) and sèll corresponding to ‘that one’. We show that in both languages D+sèll forms overlap with German D-pronouns in most contexts, whereas D-pronou…

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…

Cecilia Cantalupi, Il trovatore Guilhem Figueira. Studio e edizione critica (Travaux de Littératures Romanes – Études et textes romans du Moyen Âge),…

2022

Review of the Critical edition of the troubadour Guilhem Figueira by Cecilia Cantalupi