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Il ladino e i suoi idiomi
2020
In questo capitolo si illustrano le suddivisioni interne al gruppo ladino. Dopo aver sottolineato la posizione particolare dell’ampezzano (appartenente linguisticamente al gruppo cadorino), si mostra che le restanti varietà sono separate da tre diverse linee di demarcazione che si sovrappongono: una linea di origine altomedievale che corre da nord a sud, dividendo Fassa e Gardena da Badia e Fodom; una da ovest a est, più recente, che isola il ladino settentrionale (valli di Gardena e Badia) dal ladino meridionale; e infine una linea circolare che separa le varietà centrali da quelle periferiche.Nella seconda parte del capitolo sono discusse le differenze fonologiche, morfologiche, sintattic…
Old English byrððīnenu: the Anglo-Saxon midwife
2018
Midwives were clearly viewed as professionalized figures in the Mediterranean world of antiquity and late antiquity and they were responsible for women’s healthcare, such as gynecological and obstetrical needs. They were referred to in Roman law, admonished in Christian edicts and memorialized in statues and inscriptions. Their status is attested to by medical texts specifically intended for midwives’ use dating from at least the third century B.C. to the sixth century A.D. According to Green, professional midwives disappeared along with the slow disintegration of the urban environments that supported medical specialization and reemerged as a specialized profession only in the thirteenth ce…
The ‘Unglossed’ Words of the Lindisfarne Glosses
2016
The Old English glosses to the Gospels in London, British Library, MS Cotton Nero D.iv represent one of the largest interlinear apparatuses to a single Latin text in the vernacular. However, about one thousand words of the Latin text are left unglossed both in the Gospels and the prefatory material. The largest number of omissions concern proper names (personal names, place-names and ethnonyms), but also words such as camelus or ventilabrum were left unglossed whether always or just sometimes. This paper investigates the number and the distribution of these unglossed terms as well as their nature.
Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome: Open bite evolution after tongue reduction
2018
Background Macroglossia causes functional deficits such as airway obstruction, drooling, phonation difficulties, and leads to protrusion of dentoalveolar structures resulting in an anterior open bite and a prognathic mandibular appearance. Macroglossia is present in the majority of patients with Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS) and surgical treatment may be indicated. Material and Methods A retrospective review was conducted including BWS patients who underwent surgical tongue reduction between 2000 and 2015 at the Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid. Results Out of 16 patients with BWS, surgery was performed in 11 cases. Tongue protrusion with open bite was the main indication for surgi…
Functional assessment: Free thin anterolateral thigh flap versus free radial forearm reconstruction for hemiglossectomy defects
2015
Background To compare free thin anterolateral thigh (ALT) flap with free radial forearm (FRF) flap in the reconstruction of hemiglossectomy defects, and to introduce our methods and experience in the tongue reconstruction with free thin ALT flap. Material and Methods The clinicopathologic data of 46 tongue carcinoma cases hospitalized from December 2009 to April 2014 were obtained from Nangjing Stomatological Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University. All the subjects were evaluated for the articulation and the swallowing function 3 months after the surgery. Results Among these 46 patients, 12 patients underwent tongue reconstruction after hemiglossectomy with ALT flap; 34 patients und…
Precious stones and ‘wondrous’ minerals in Old High German glosses
2018
This essay will focus on the names of precious stones and minerals which were known and praised for their extraordinary properties in Old High German glosses and glossaries. The research aims to shed light on the circulation of stone lore in medieval Germany, and the strategies employed by the glossators when approaching this peculiar lexical field. In a number of cases, the interpretamentum takes the form of an explanatory gloss, providing a short description of the stone, which can include details on its colour, shape and physical properties. The features of the glosses under examination will hopefully yield relevant data on the knowledge of the precious stones and their physical appearan…
Aspetti della variabilità in “Fiabe novelle e racconti popolari siciliani” .
2017
Il materiale linguistico dei testi popolari raccolti da Pitrè è materia viva. I suoi narratori sono parlanti reali, radicati nelle rispettive comunità delle quali ripropongono i tratti linguistici – nella loro specificità e autenticità – che lo studioso deve saper cogliere e rappresentare “immediatamente”. Ma, raccogliendo e trascrivendo i testi di "Fiabe novelle e racconti popolari siciliani", Pitrè, più che con «la parola», si trova a operare con “il parlato”. Operando, dunque, sul piano “etnotestuale”, il suo materiale linguistico, assimilabile, per certi versi, a un corpus di parlato spontaneo, postula di essere osservato e rappresentato dalla prospettiva "sintattica" e non soltanto da …
Glossing the Old Frisian Psalter: Pragmatics and Competence
2014
The essay takes into examination the interlinear glosses in Old Frisian in the fragment of Psalter in ms. Groningen, Universiteitsbibliotheek 404. This is the oldest medieval Frisian fragmentary codex to survive and contains verses of Psalms XVII, XXVII, and XVIII, accompanied by glosses in the vernacular. This essay is the first lengthy study specifically devoted to the typology of the glosses themselves and their peculiarities (within the field of interlinear glosses). On close inspection, the OF glosses show a large internal coherence and individual quality. As far as the lexicon is concerned, the glosses feature a series of words belonging to the juridical lexicon, whereas other word-ch…
The Names of the ‘Pearl’ in the Old High German Glosses and Glossaries
2019
The essay will provide a scrutiny of the words merigrioz and perala occurring in the Old High German glosses to render the Latin words for ‘pearl’, i.e. unio and margarita, with the purpose of mapping the distribution and the contexts of use of the OHG words. The analysis will contribute to trace the origin of the German word for ‘pearl’, starting from the earliest stage of the language and – from a perspective of language contact – which takes into account the Latin counterparts of these OHG glosses.
Preface
2018
The essays collected in these two volumes provide evidence of Patrizia Lendinara’s wide expertise and her impact in distinct academic fields, ranging from late antiquity to the early and late Middle Ages. The papers are offered as a tribute to Patrizia’s scholarship by colleagues from Italy and abroad, some of whom were once her students. The theme of this Festschrift was chosen in view of the honouree’s keen interest in and contribution to the study of the glosses and the lexicon of Germanic languages. Accordingly, although the essays collected in these volumes vary quite widely in both style and structure, they all ultimately focus on the various facets of glossography and lexicography of…