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Sistemi di orientamento nel latino di Plauto
2021
This paper investigates the spatial Frames of Reference (FoRs) in Old Latin within the framework of cognitive linguistics. Differently from modern romance languages, which are heavily based on the so-called relative FoR, ancient Indo-European languages such as Vedic and Homeric Greek did not make use of such an egocentric orientation system at their earliest stage, since the relation between FIGURE and GROUND was not specified by imposing an external deictic observer’s viewpoint. the aim of this study is to add the perspective of Old Latin, by focusing on the contexts of use of spatial terms of FRONT, BEHIND, LEFT, RIGHT in the comedies of Plautus. The results of this analysis are consisten…
Dalla Word Sense Disambiguation alla sintassi: il problema dell'articolo partitivo in italiano
2017
Out of context, a sequence of Italian such as dei professori 'of.the teachers' is ambiguous: it can either mean some teachers (e.g. Dei professori intervennero 'Some teachers attended') or carry the value of a Saxon genitive (e.g. i libri dei professori 'the teachers' books'). The part of speech to which dei professori belongs cannot be identified: dei could be a partitive article in a noun phrase or a preposition in a prepositional phrase. This key difference raises a problem in the area of Word Sense Disambiguation. Despite its relevance for NLP, this case of homonymy has so far been disregarded in the literature. The paper distinguishes the functions of grammar morphemes such as dei and …
I nomi di Leonardo Sciascia
2020
Nella sua Racalmuto, di nome, Sciascia faceva comunemente Nanà. Era Leonardo all’anagrafe e, conformemente con l’anagrafe, nel resto del mondo, ma a Racalmuto era Nanà. L’alternativa onomastica è nota. Nei trenta anni trascorsi dalla morte dello scrittore, ne hanno fatto menzione tutti coloro che si sono presentati come testimoni diretti della sua vita. Meno noto e fin qui taciuto è che anche il suo cognome aveva due varianti, una corrente a Racalmuto e nelle aree vicine e linguisticamente coerenti, l’altra corrente nel resto del mondo. A distinguerle, una sottile, ma cruciale differenza di pronuncia. Il nome che aveva portato nell’infanzia e durante la formazione nella sua Heimat non era d…
Orders (Imperative/Prohibitives)
2013
The entry examines the different ways in which ancient Greeks (were) ordered to do or not to do something.
Dinamiche linguistiche nel metalinguaggio pubblicitario dell’italiano standard: spot televisivi delle compagnie telefoniche
2010
Questo studio analizza il linguaggio pubblicitario dei commercial italiani di alcune compagnie di telefonia e telecomunicazioni presenti in Italia (Telecom Alice, Fastweb, Tre, Wind Infostrada, Vodafone Omnitel, Tele2). I commercial o spot (Eugeni 2010: 265) possono essere considerati veri e propri testi «narrativi» con strategie comunicative e un linguaggio artistico che «è alla base della modellizzazione dei processi dinamici della lingua» (Lotman 1980: 20); gli spot risultano, infatti, interessanti in quanto permettono di evidenziare gli effetti della globalizzazione (Bauman 2001: 4) sul metalinguaggio pubblicitario e delle sue inevitabili ricadute sulle dinamiche linguistiche dell’itali…
Lingua e testo in Sciascia: il caso dei salinari di Regalpetra
2010
Questo studio analizza il capitolo « I salinari », del libro Le parrocchie di Regalpetra di Sciascia. È un testo interessante per tre ragioni: dipinge la condizione delle saline mostrando uno scorcio di paesaggio siciliano; pone la città di Regalpetra come esempio universale per indicare la condizione dello sfruttamento dei lavoratori e l’ingiustizia sociale; propone, infine, una lingua ricca di calchi e prestiti. In questo contributo si vuole sottolineare, tenendo in considerazione le ricerche condotte da Lakoff, l’importanza di un approccio cognitivo al testo sciasciano per studiarne il tessuto allegorico e, in particolare, l’allegoria del paesaggio e del lavoro. L’analisi verte sulla fun…
Developing Phonological Awareness in Blended-learning Language Courses
2013
This study is based on Second Language Acquisition through blended learning and explores the application of new educational technologies in the development of distance education. In particular, the paper focuses on ways to enhance oral, aural, and intercultural skills through learners' engagement, develop authentic social interaction and intercultural awareness in virtual environments and at the same time actively engage the students' powers of perception, communication DQGUHDVRQLQJ��$ �VSHHFKYLVXDOL) DWLRQWHFKQRORJ\ �LVLQWURGXFHG�� VSHFL?FDOO\�WDLO RUHGWR� pronunciation training. It provides relevant and comprehensible visual feedback of all three components of speech: prosody-intonation, …
The Teaching of Pragmatics in L2
2019
Abstract The teaching of pragmatics in L2 would be useless, if we consider pragmatics such as the study of the language in use, because this is what is done in the teaching of L2. In reality, apart from the routines, pragmatics is the branch of linguistics that is learned later, especially if we think of facts such as courtesy strategies, which require a rather advanced level of language. Despite numerous studies on the acquisition/learning of languages and on pragmatics, the two factors were not very often studied together. The learning of grammar and pragmatics are not synchronous. Even in a strictly communicative model, apart from greetings, “thanks” and "please", we tend to learn the mo…
Two Types of pseudo-clefts?
2010
Sentences such as 'What Fred does is complain' and 'What Fred does is important' have both been labeled as pseudo-clefts, though of two distinct types. We provide four tests to structurally distinguish such constructions. Entailment patterns and a number of structural ties between the post-copular constituent and specific constituents of the pre-copular relative clause suggest using the label ‘pseudo-cleft’ for the former type only. This paper also examines certain cases of pseudo-clefts with no simple correlates, and vice versa, to argue – contra Higgins 1973 – that these do not necessarily contradict the existence of a structural connection (a transformation, in the sense of Z. S. Harris)…
Starting from the Origin: the Early Latin preposition de (and its companions)
2015
This paper explores the semantic network of the Early Latin preposition de (“from”) on the basis of an extensive investigation of the electronic corpus of Comedies by Plautus and Cato’s de Agricoltura, which represent a substantial sample of the oldest Latin attestations in an extensive and non-fragmentary form. Our approach is heavily based on Cognitive Grammar (Langacker 1987; 1991; Luraghi 2003), although we complement it with considerations on the use of prepositions in Latin elaborated in the framework of Functional Grammar (Pinkster 1990; 1991), as well as with arguments proposed in Linguistic Typology (Croft 1991). This approach allows an explicative account of the interconnections a…