Search results for "greco antico"

Sintassi aggettivale e sintassi verbale: un case study dal greco antico

2016

Verb inflection in Ancient Greek and Sanskrit and auxiliation patterns in French and Italian. Forms, functions, system

2009

This paper deals with the complex interaction between form and function in the verb morphosyntax of four Indo-European languages (French, Italian, Ancient Greek and Sanskrit). Beyond the difference in form, auxiliation patterns in French and Italian, and verb inflections in Ancient Greek and Sanskrit correlate, thanks to the agreement for number and person, to the expression of the relationship with the Subject. The different auxiliation patterns (sum and habeo) and the different inflections (middle and active) correlate to different properties of the Subject. In particular, these forms depend on the syntactic opposition between middle and non-middle. The ways of this dependency are regulat…

Seferis traduttore dal greco antico

2006

Seferis coltivò la traduzione dal greco antico al greco moderno. In questo articolo si prendono in esame vari esempi di versioni seferiane di testi letterari e filosofici.

Auxiliaries

2014

The prototypical auxiliary in Ancient Greek is eimí “to be”, which is involved in some participial periphrases conveying aspectual value and variously interacting with the synthetic forms within the inflectional paradigm. However, many other verbs are involved in the Greek periphrastic constructions, although their status as auxiliaries is still a matter of debate. Resent research in grammaticalization allows to describe the entire range of such verbs in prototypical terms, that is, as a coherent category which includes more central and peripheral, i.e. less grammaticalized members.

Technai e prerogative divine sulla scena del teatro di Eschilo

2019

Lo studio indaga la posizione delle technai nell’opera di Eschilo, con particolare attenzione per il ruolo occupato dalle divinità come originarie, quando non esclusive detentrici e inventrici dei saperi tecnici. Attraverso una dettagliata disamina dell’uso del vocabolario della techne nei diversi drammi eschilei, emerge una doppia accezione del sapere tecnico, sia tradizionale che specificamente prometeico. In tal senso, la vicenda drammatica descritta nel Prometeo incatenato appare particolarmente rilevante per cogliere motivi di continuità e differenze all’interno del sistema di pensiero greco, specificamente eschileo, sulla techne. Chiude la disamina una postilla critica su due passi es…

Categorie e relazioni: morfosintassi di aggettivi verbali in greco antico

2013

Recensione a ARCHEA KYPRIAKì GRAMATIA II EPIGRAMA, epim. A. Voskòs, Lefkosia

1996

Recensione ad una raccolta di epigrammi greci antichi (Cipro)

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…

Direct objects

2014

The direct objects express the semantic role patient, that is, the participant affected by the transitive situation. In Ancient Greek, the case of the direct object is prototypically the accusative. However, on the basis of a scalar hypothesis of transitivity, the notion of affectedness may be conceived of as a gradual property of the objects. In this perspective, different ways of encoding the transitive objects may be individuated, namely the dative and the genitive, which should be interpreted as less typical instances of the category.

Reflexives

2014

An adequate description of the reflexive system in Ancient Greek entails a brief overview of the main assumptions on the notion of reflexivity and, more in general, imposes some preliminary remarks on the theoretical framework which forms the background of the argumentation. The primary reflexive strategy in Greek belongs to the pronominal type, although some significant changes occurred throughout the history of the language, which impose a more fine-grained diachronic description.