Search results for "Lotto"

Traces of earlier Proto-Indo-European and its active alignment in German: the impersonal passive constructions

2013

'Do'-support in a Sicilian variety, an Italian pseudo-cleft, and the packaging of information

2009

A parallel is drawn between a Sicilian structure with do-support strategy, and a type of pseudo-cleft in Italian in which a do-verb occurs. These structures are examined from three different perspectives. First, morpho-syntax: the two clause-types share a number of formal aspects, which include the do-verb, a lexical verb in the infinitive, and the sharing of the same subject by both verbs. The second has to do with their packaging of information: in both cases, higher communicative prominence is given to an event (VP) rather than a participant (NP or PP). The expression of the event is broken down into two separable components, its existence (an event is expressed without being specified, …

The role of lexical aspect in constructing Proto-Indo-European verbal paradigms

2009

The aim of this paper is to recover the role of the [± telic] inherent feature of PIE verbal roots, regardless of the many different meanings which derived verbs could take depending on their combination with arguments, adverbials, and so on. Semantic changes due to different contexts could have indeed obscured the relationship between the original lexical aspect of a verb and the structure of its morphological paradigm. The aspectual class is often described as a compositional property, and verbs are even analyzed as complex structures made up of completely neutral roots without any information about their argument structure. However, the distribution and the kind of forms within the parad…

Intensifiers

2014

The label ‘intensifiers’ (or ‘emphatics’) groups together words, widely attested crosslinguistically (e.g. Eng. x-self, Germ. selbst, Ital. stesso, Lat. ipse, Japanese zisin and zibun, Mandarin zı j ĭetc.), whose main function is to signal some sort of emphasis or focus with respect to a nominal head they are adjoined to in the sentence, as in The author herself will present the book. In addition to the term ‘intensifiers’ (Moravcsik 1972; Edmondson and Plank 1978), there exist many other labels in the relevant literature to define this sub-class of functional words, which reflect the (anything but closed) debate on their actual categorial status. This entry discuss the origin and the funct…

Intensificatori e soggettificazione in latino: sulla grammaticalizzazione di maxime

2022

The aim of this paper is to investigate the grammaticalization path of the intensifying adverb maxime in Early Latin, within the perspective of the so-called ‘subjectification’ theory. Despite the difficulty of drawing discrete boundaries within the multifunctional category of adverbs, the semantic, syntactic and pragmatic analysis of maxime across different contexts of use allows us to identify at least three main functions of this adverb in early Latin texts, mostly in the Roman comedy of Plautus and Terence. In particular, adopting the perspective of the Functional Discourse Grammar, it is shown that maxime is used as (i) degree adverb, which modifies a large range of elements acting at …

Legge Tobler-Mussafia

2010

Voce inserita nell Enciclopedia dell'Italiano Treccani (EncIt): La legge di Tobler - Mussafia codifica una regolarità osservabile in italiano antico (dalle origini agli inizi del XV secolo) e, più in generale, in tutte le varietà medievali romanze, nel comportamento dei clitici (pronomi personali obliqui atoni - mi, ti, gli, le, lo, la, etc. - e particelle avverbiali - ci, vi, ne, etc.) nella loro relazione con il verbo e talvolta con altri elementi della frase. Il fenomeno è indagato attraverso opportune esemplificazioni in una prospettiva volta alla ricerca della sua motivazione.

Recensione di 'Le frasi scisse in italiano. Struttura informativa e funzioni discorsive'

2012

Compendio di sintassi italiana

2009

Projekt badający akwizycję JPJO w kilku krajach Unii Europejskiej. Charakterystyka kursów językowych prowadzonych w ramach projektu VILLA z perspekty…

2018

The aim of the article is to compare the preliminary results of the research on the data gathered in the VILLA project with the reflections of the teacher conducting all the sessions (ten courses in Polish for beginners). The article consists of four parts. The first one presents the basic information about the project. The second one describes the content, the methodology and the didactic strategies used during the dasses. The third one contains reflections useful for people analysing the gathereddata. The article concludes with a short comment on the research resuits, that is, on the influence of several factors (such as the teaching methodology, the learners' age and their mother tongue …

Narration et Conspiration. Formes de la bêtise dans le Pendule de Foucault

2018

Dans cet article, nous proposons une lecture du Pendule de Foucault qui vise à extraire du texte littéraire une théorie de la stupidité et de la raison. Pour le texte de ce roman, il y a plusieurs formes de la bêtise, mais la formulation de cette classification est faite par un personnage ivre et dans un moment très particulier du roman. Ainsi la forme de la narration, celle de la conspiration et la théorie de l’irrationalisme se construisent parallèlement, pendant l’histoire. The aim of this study is to return to the question of the relationship between the plot of the Pendule de Foucault and the hermetic semiosis or the question of irrationalismby nuancing this report, not in the sense of…