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Migrazione e variazione diatopica, mobilità e cambio linguistico. Premesse allo studio delle varietà italoalbanesi
2022
For the Italo-Albanian reality, the diatopic-diachronic relationship of dialect variation takes on different aspects compared to that experienced in the Italo-Romance reality. This is due to the fact that the linguistic-geographical dislocation (prior and subsequent to the diaspora) and the diachronic distribution of the various migratory stages, have produced historical and territorial discontinuity of the archipelagos and of the Arbëreshë islands variously distributed in the Italo-Romance continuum. In addition to this differential factor between the order of dialectological studies of the Italo-Romance sphere and those relating to the Italo-Albanian reality, other problematic relationshi…
"La più gran gioia è sempre all’altra riva" -On the Albanian migration in Italy (XIV-XVIII centuries)
2018
Il saggio ricostruisce le varie fasi dell'emigrazione albanese verso l'Italia delimitandone le cause e le aree interessate nel duplice tentativo di proporre una tipologia di un fenomeno che si sviluppò sulla lunga durata e di sfatare il complesso mitologico che ha dominato e manipolato la storiografia arbëreshe. The essay reconstructs the various phases of Albanian emigration to Italy, delimiting the causes and the areas concerned in the double attempt to propose a typology of a phenomenon that developed over the long term and to dispel the mythological complex that has dominated and manipulated historiography arbëreshe.
Padre Giorgio Guzzetta e le origini della costruzione d’identità arbëreshe
2015
L'opera di p. Giorgio Guzzetta si è rivelata decisiva per comprendere gli inizi del processo di costruzione di identità presso gli Arbëreshë. I temi che arricchirono la prospettiva culturologica del grande apostolo degli Albanesi d'Italia costituiscono le prove più evidenti del debito che gli intellettuali italo-albanesi contrassero con il suo pensiero. The work of Fr. Giorgio Guzzetta proved to be decisive in understanding the beginnings of the identity construction process among the Arbëreshë. The themes that enriched the cultural perspective of the great apostle of the Albanians of Italy constitute the most evident proofs of the debt that the Italo-Albanian intellectuals incurred with hi…
Miti pellazgjik dhe origjina e tij. Kontributi i Jeronim De Radës dhe Giovanni Emanuele Bidera-s
2013
Il saggio ricostruisce segmenti ideologici del processo di costruzione di identità presso gli Albanesi d'Italia prendnedo in esame l'origine e la diffusione del cosiddetto "mito pelasgico". The essay reconstructs ideological segments of the identity construction process among the Albanians of Italy by examining the origin and spread of the so-called "Pelasgic myth".
Len’ka Panteleev and the traditions of Van’ka Kain: Criminal Biography in XXth Century Russia
2017
The Fighter against the myth, or the memoirist who considers himself a Hercules (Anton Pavlovich Chekhov: an attempt at a characterization by N.M. Ezhov). The vast corpus about the 1920s Petrograd bandit Len’ka Panteleev, comprised of different texts – such as newspaper articles, fiction, film and song, with a complex and often ambiguous interplay between factual accounts and fictional adaptation – seems untypical for the era. A useful term of comparison is the similar corpus concerning the 18th century Moscow rogue Van’ka Kain. The latter shows all the typical features of 18th century criminal biographies, which at the time were popular throughout Europe. According to Michel Foucault, this…
Names of Snakes in Latvian Texts of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
2020
Names of Snakes in Latvian Texts of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries This article analyses the naming of snakes in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Latvian texts which are taken from the Corpus of Early Written Latvian Texts, containing the first Latvian dictionaries, religious texts, and some secular texts. The objective of the paper is to try to determine how precisely the translators of religious texts rendered names of snakes, and to ascertain whether any semantic changes have taken place, or whether religious texts show specific use. The study also aims to find out if taboo of dangerous animals, snakes in particular, and related euphemisation is reflected in early Latvian text…
The Electronic Historical Latvian Dictionary Based on the Corpus of Early Written Latvian Texts
2016
The Electronic Historical Latvian Dictionary Based on the Corpus of Early Written Latvian Texts This article deals with the development of the Electronic Historical Latvian Dictionary (http://www.tezaurs.lv/lvvv) based on the Corpus of Early Written Latvian Texts (http://www.korpuss.lv/senie/). Some issues concerning the compilation and processing of the corpus data are discussed and the main sources added to the Corpus during the four-year project are described: the 16th c. Lord’s Prayers , 17th c. dictionaries, texts of oaths and laws, religious texts and so-called dedication poetry. The aim of the project is to compile a pilot electronic dictionary of 16th–17th century Latvian where all…
On flora semantics in house names found in Vidzeme: materials contained in the 1826 counting of souls in Vidzeme province
2014
On flora semantics in house names found in Vidzeme: materials contained in the 1826 counting of souls in Vidzeme province The information of the counting of souls containing both house names and names of individuals is an essential aspect of historical onomastics. The first counting of souls in Vidzeme took place in 1782 and coincided with the 4 th analogous census of the provinces of Russia. Subsequently these took place at irregular intervals, the 5 th in 1795, the 6 th in 1811, the 7 th in 1816, the 8 th in 1834, the 9 th in 1850, and the final, 10 th in 1858. The number of house names entered in the 1826 counting of souls in Vidzeme province (guberna) is 14,500, including those of peasa…
In memoriam: Aina Blinkena (5.09.1929 – 22.11.2017)
2018
In memoriam: Aina Blinkena (5.09.1929 – 22.11.2017) Professor Aina Blinkena passed away on 22 November 2017. Upon her graduation from the Latvian State University in 1953, she began working for the Institute of Language and Literature of the Latvian SSR Academy of Sciences (today: the Institute of the Latvian Language of the University of Latvia), which became her only permanent workplace. Starting her work as a junior research associate and later – a deputy director and a full member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, Aina Blinkena shaped the linguistic thought in Latvia for almost fifty years. Aina Blinkena pursued broad interests in the history of language and linguistics, as well as mo…
Ethnic diversity in the construction of life stories in Latvia
2017
Ethnic diversity in the construction of life stories in Latvia Latvian society is ethnically diverse and has the largest proportion of ethnic minorities of the three Baltic States. The article draws upon life-story research with respondents from Russian and Romany communities in Latvia. These communities have different social, historical and cultural experiences, thereby allowing them to be contrasted and compared. Ethnic diversity can be considered one of the benefits of Latvia’s cultural identity because it provides the opportunity not only to become acquainted with the characteristics and uniqueness of each culture but also to establish which traits unite these cultures, thereby creating…