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Considerazioni sulla grafia dei testi volgari romanzi in caratteri greci

2008

Grammatica, didattica linguistica, tecniche di scoperta

2021

The study of grammar is not a source of enthusiasm for those who learn a language and the teaching of grammar often frustrates those who teach it. As a consequence, in learning and teaching motivations and results are negatively affected. A lively debate exists on the strategies to be employed in the teaching of grammar and in the metalanguage which teachers use in classrooms. Without the pretense of solving the knots of such debate, this book concretely indicates how an experimental method, made up of observations and reasoning, can be didactically stimulating and profitable.

L’occhio della mente. Un’eredità indoeuropea nei poemi omerici

2002

Introduction

2014

Studying Ancient Greek offers new insights for linguistic theory. Thanks to the amount of available written data of a large corpus at our disposal, it is possible for a linguist to test hypotheses from modern theories in order to explain language phenomena, without disregarding a description according to methodologies adopted in traditional analyses of ancient languages. In particular, the morphological complexity of the Greek verb with its highly intricate inflectional system provide a valuable basis for an in-depth-analysis of the mechanisms which regulate the functioning of a language in the mind of the speaker. Crucially, in recent times also deductive methodologies adopted in the gener…

Homeric Evidences of an Inherently Actional Opposition: ἔρχομαι vs ἦλθον

2020

The paper aims at analyzing the paradigmatic relationship between the verbs ἔρχομαι and ἦλθον in Homeric Greek. Both verbs convey the idea of going within a Homeric suppletive paradigm. Although suppletivism between ἔρχομαι, εἶμι, ἐλεύσομαι (future), ἦλθον (aorist), εἰλήλουθα (perfect) is generally accepted, there is still uncertainty on both etymology and semantic features involving inherent actionality, with particular reference to ἔρχομαι. Therefore, the actional status of ἔρχομαι and its relationship with ἦλθον need further investigation. A textual analysis of the Homeric occurrences of both ἔρχομαι and ἦλθον, focusing on the semantic-syntactic discourse context, has shed light on their…

Sulla corporeità del processo cognitivo nei poemi omerici: il caso di μαίνομαι

2019

The aim of this paper is to shed light on the striking connection between, on the one hand, the cognitive process in Homer and, on the other, the verb μαίνομαι (and the forms from the perfect stem μεμον-/μεμα-), which represents the ultimate example of Ancient Greek verb conveying the idea of “raging, being furious/mad/insane”. Besides those common meanings, the analysis of the Iliad and the Odyssey shows that the semantic complexity of μαίνομαι actually includes the idea of “thinking”, due to the inner polysemy of the IE root *men-, to which the verb at issue traces back, as well as the Homeric lack of distinction between body and mind. More specifically, the verb also refers to a range of…

Introduzione

2018

La parola dialettale nell’opera di Leonardo Sciascia: il caso di "taddema"

2020

Vine analizzata la parola "taddema", usata da Leonardo Sciascia nelle pagine conclusive de "Il giorno della Civetta". Ne viene ricostruita la storia e ne viene mostrato l'uso in sincronia e il suo rapporto con la voce italiana "diiadema".

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.