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Imperative
2013
The entry deals with the various formations of the imperative mood in Ancient Greek.
Towards a Reconstruction of Indo-European Culture: Semantic Functions of IE *men-
2003
The aim of this paper is to recover the semantic values involved in IE *men- in order to reconstruct some cognitive process modalities in regard to "Indo-European ideology" (Campanile 1992). After focusing on the apparent semantic split noticeable between Homeric Greek and Vedic in the uses derived from *men-, I argue for the presence of striking parallel paths using the methods of textual comparison. Then, the role of lexical nucleus' polysemy in originating the linguistic change is highlighted, without disregarding an Indo-European typological perspective within the realm of the so-called "basic lexicon" to which the root at issue belongs.
Some Reflections on the Gothic Optative
2015
The verbal systems of the earliest Indo-European languages are not so congruous with one another as the nominal paradigms. The reconstruction of IE is conformably fraught with far greater difficulty, and there is plenty of room for doubt. In this paper a particular morph will be dealt with, which does not go back as such to Indo-European. The proto-language must have possessed the linguistic unit employed in Gothic to form the verbal endings that are discussed here. Traces of this unit are found in other IE languages, as a matter of fact, and Gothic has utilized it in its own way. The issue will be discussed inside what is called the Greco-Aryan model. Indeed, based chiefly on Greek and San…
From Thinking to Raging: Reflexes of Indo-European *men- Polysemy in Homer
2020
This paper aims at investigating the semantic value of the verb μαίνομαι “to rage, to be furious” in Homeric Greek, in order to clarify the striking semantic relationship between the common ‘irrational’ meaning of the verb and the original ‘rational’ meaning of the Indo-European root *men- “to think”, to which the verb traces back. The corresponding words for μαίνομαι in other Indo-European languages (e.g. OInd. mányatē; Av. mainyeite; OIr. (do)moiniur; OCS mъnjo; Lit. miniu) can be translated as “to think”, thus showing an opposite meaning. From a textual analysis of all the occurrences of μαίνομαι in the Iliad and the Odyssey, the study aims at finding semantic traces of the original mean…
Homeric k-aorists and/or k-perfects?
2013
In classical Greek the aorist indicatives of dído:mi, je:mi, and títhe:mi end in -ka, -kas, -ke following a long vowel in the singular. Homeric Greek utilizes k-forms, both augmented and non-augmented, of these three verbs, and attests to third person plural forms ending in -kan and even to a first person plural form such as êne:kamen. There is a broad consensus regarding these forms as typical of Greek, while their relation to the k-perfect is still discussed. The paper considers the -k- to have a phonetic origin deriving from a laryngeal root,viz from *h1 or *h3, when they come into contact with *h2,the laryngeal of *-h2e, the ancient first person singular ending of the original perfect. …
"Tea for two": the Archive of the Italian Latinity of the Middle Ages meets the CLARIN infrastructure
2020
This paper aims at showing how integrating the Archive of the Italian Latinity of the Middle Ages (ALIM) into the ILC4CLARIN repository can provide mutual benefits. Making ALIM available to a large community of scholars and researchers, on the one side, represents the first step to reduce the lack of resources for Medieval Latin in CLARIN and, on the other side, constitutes an unprecedented contribution to not only linguistic investigations, but also to the studies of the culture and science at the basis of the Western European society. The paper describes the adopted approach aiming to keep intact the structure of the archive and its metadata, which are both accurately mirrored into the IL…
Ipocoristici italiani di nuovo conio
2021
this essay examines hypocoristica in Italian by drawing a comparison between one of the traditional models and an innovative one. In recent decades the latter has grown in importance and has thus become hegemonic in everyday language. the diachronic, historical, and sociolinguistic aspects of this innovation are discussed along with a functional and formal analysis and a number of related empirical and theoretical issues.
Synonymy: The unbearable ficklness of meaning
2010
Standard definitions of synonymy become problematic under close scrutiny of nouns occurring in two contexts of Italian: clauses with Negative Polarity Items and noun phrases with Complex Nominal Determiners. Such nouns are non-referring expressions, do not carry literal meaning, often give rise to metaphor and intensity, and preclude decomposition into elementary semantic features as conceived in Componential Analysis. The inconsequence of semantic features and a number of syntactic constraints suggest that these nouns are best analyzed as parts of multi-word expressions working as function phrases.
TRANSITIVITÀ, PASSIVO E ALTRE CONTINUITÀ. LE COSTRUZIONI PASSIVE CON SI TRA ITALIANO MODERNO E VARIETÀ MEDIEVALI.
2007
La ricerca analizza le caratteristiche semantico-funzionali e il comportamento sintattico di una peculiare espressione del passivo, realizzata attraverso l'uso del clitico riflessivo di terza persona si. L’attenzione è focalizzata principalmente su alcune varietà di italiano antico che, accanto alle molte analogie, esibiscono tuttavia caratteristiche spesso difformi rispetto alla lingua moderna. Tuttavia, poiché questo tipo di struttura non è esclusivo né dell'italiano né delle lingue romanze, si è ritenuto necessario proiettare l’analisi in una più ampia prospettiva interlinguistica. L'analisi, condotta all'interno di un framework di natura funzionale-cognitivista - sfruttando in particola…
Prassi della scrittura
2021
Alla metà degli anni Sessanta, Italo Calvino e Leonardo Sciascia risposero a un'inchiesta proposta dal periodico "Rinascita" con acute osservazione sulla prassi della scrittura e sul rapporto che intrattenevano con il lettore ideale. L'articolo espone le loro idee, le confronta e le mette in correlazione con lo stato presente della scrittura saggistica e letteraria.