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Recensione di FRANCESCA PIAZZA, La parola e la spada. Violenza e linguaggio attraverso l’Iliade, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2019, pp. 232
2020
Piazza riflette sui rapporti tra violenza e linguaggio usando come ambito di indagine l’Iliade. La scelta – azzeccata – è supportata da tre ragioni. Innanzitutto l’Iliade è «[…] il racconto di una guerra che ha acquistato nei secoli […] il sapore di una guerra archetipica e ha svolto il ruolo di fonte inesauribile del nostro immaginario, non solo poetico» (p. 41). Inoltre, la società narrata nei poemi omerici è caratterizzata dalla competitività e dalla ricerca della vittoria, da ottenersi sia attraverso la forza fisica sia attraverso la capacità argomentativa. Infine, quest’opera non è letteratura in senso moderno ma un “documento antropologico”: «[…] un testo nel quale sono depositate le …
Suggestioni favolistiche, espressioni sentenziose e tonalità moraleggianti nel «Pamphilus»
2022
Le commedie elegiache latine del XII e XIII secolo sono spesso caratterizzate da echi e suggestioni di origine favolistica, nonché da forti componenti di stampo moralistico, esemplare, proverbiale. In tal dire-zione, una delle più significative è senz’altro il «Pamphilus», composto all’inizio del XII secolo e ampiamente debitore, quanto alla trama, alle tematiche e ai personaggi, nei confronti del «De nuntio sagaci». In questo saggio, attraverso un’approfondita lettura della commedia, si insiste sulle suggestioni favolistiche, sulle espressioni proverbiali e sulle tonalità moraleggianti che largamente la innervano, fino a costituirne un elemento assolutamente indispensabile, già, d’altra pa…
Pseudo-relatives and their left-periphery
2016
In this article I propose a new analysis of Pseudo-Relative clauses ('PRs') within the Cartographic model (Rizzi 1997 a.o.). Heretofore, the apparently contradictory behaviour of PRs in the syntactic tests used to determine their structure has been very problematic. Based on new data from Italian, I show that PRs are Small Clauses with a ForceP projection. Moreover, I explain the inconsistent results of the syntactic tests by claiming that PRs can be embedded in different syntactic environments. More specifically, they can be inserted as 'bare' Small Clauses into the matrix clause or be part of a bigger structure: i.e., a Complex-DP, a locative adjunction or a 'Larsonian' structure.
Les adjectifs verbaux d’obligation (AVO) en védique, grec ancien et latin, d’un point de vue systématique
2017
The volume contains the proceedings of the conference about »Verbal adjectives and participles in Indo-European languages«, which took place in Paris, in September 2014, as a thematic symposium (»Arbeitstagung«) of the Society for Indo-European Studies (Indogermanische Gesellschaft/Société des Études Indo-Européennes). The aim of the conference was to highlight convergences and divergences in the treatment of verbal adjectives and participles across the Indo-European languages, modern as well as ancient.
LA GRAMMATICALIZZAZIONE DEI VERBI DI MOVIMENTO IN SICILIANO: IL CASO DI IRI ‘ANDARE’ IN FUNZIONE DIRETTIVA
2019
Esiste in siciliano una costruzione direttiva formata dalla seconda persona singolare dell’imperativo di iri ‘andare’ e la seconda persona, singolare o plurale, dell’imperativo di un verbo lessicale (va pigghilu ‘(lett.) va prendilo’). Sullo sfondo di alcuni studi che hanno indagato lo sviluppo delle marche direttive in diverse lingue del mondo da una prospettiva storico-pragmatica, la costruzione è interpretata come risultato di un processo di grammaticalizzazione che si origina nella interazione diadica tra i partecipanti dello speech act, innescato dalle specificità deittiche del verbo (allontanamento dal punto di vista del parlante); poiché il punto di vista del parlante viene incluso n…
Contact between Italian and dialect in Sicily: the case of phrasal verb constructions
2017
The Phrasal Verb Constructions (PVCs) are an interesting example of the intertwining between Italian and dialects of Italy. These constructions are formed by a verbal base (especially of motion), and a locative or direction marking particle and exist in standard Italian as well as in regional varieties of Italian and dialects (i.e. Italian andare via 'go away', mettere giù 'put down'). Because of their progressive diffusion in different varieties of regional Italian, PVCs can be construed as an emerging feature increasingly accepted in regional standards. In this perspective, PVCs are an example of the contact between varieties that contribute to the restandardization of contemporary Italia…
Sicilia. Dialetto di Pietraperzia (Caltanissetta), voce di Salvatore Martorano: Ph 2943 [CD 1: 4]
2019
This article is a part of Volume and Series 17-6 of “Recordings from Prisoner-of-War Camps, World War I. Italian Recordings”, edited by Christian Liebl and Gerda Lechleitner, and published by VÖAW. A s far as the description of the entire work is concerned, Series 17/1–6 is a commented source edition of sound documents featuring prisoners of war from World War I. The collection, compiled by various scholars in cooperation with the Phonogrammarchiv of Wien, comprises 250 language and music recordings. State-of-the-art re-recording and special signal processing, together with the expertise in handling historical sound documents, form the basis for processing and making these unique sources ac…
Conditional connection explored: the case of Sicilian cusà
2022
Abstract Stemming from a wh-question, the Sicilian marker cusà (cu sa ‘who knows’) expresses several epistemic meanings, which can also reach the realm of conditionality. The paper explores the discourse profile of cusà as it emerges from the analysis of diachronic data (from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) and present-day informal Sicilian, namely spoken Sicilian and present-day informal Sicilian as written by speakers on the web. These data suggest a possible path of development leading from the wh-question to new functions. We propose that the origin of this development can be explained in the light of the strategy of the “impossible question”, while the diverse functions of cus…
Sicilia. Dialetto di Sciacca (Agrigento), voce di Carlo Antonio Puleo: Ph 2944–2945/1 [CD 1: 5]
2019
This article is a part of Volume and Series 17-6 of “Recordings from Prisoner-of-War Camps, World War I. Italian Recordings”, edited by Christian Liebl and Gerda Lechleitner, and published by VÖAW. A s far as the description of the entire work is concerned, Series 17/1–6 is a commented source edition of sound documents featuring prisoners of war from World War I. The collection, compiled by various scholars in cooperation with the Phonogrammarchiv of Wien, comprises 250 language and music recordings. State-of-the-art re-recording and special signal processing, together with the expertise in handling historical sound documents, form the basis for processing and making these unique sources ac…
Sicily. Dialect of Sciacca (Agrigento), spoken by Carlo Antonio Puleo: Ph 2944–2945/1 [CD 1: 5]
2019
This article is a part of Volume and Series 17-6 of “Recordings from Prisoner-of-War Camps, World War I. Italian Recordings”, edited by Christian Liebl and Gerda Lechleitner, and published by VÖAW. A s far as the description of the entire work is concerned, Series 17/1–6 is a commented source edition of sound documents featuring prisoners of war from World War I. The collection, compiled by various scholars in cooperation with the Phonogrammarchiv of Wien, comprises 250 language and music recordings. State-of-the-art re-recording and special signal processing, together with the expertise in handling historical sound documents, form the basis for processing and making these unique sources ac…