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L’allegoria della Grammatica e il Laborintus di Eberardo il Tedesco
No full textThe paper aims to analyse the role of allegory in describing grammar
and its felds of application, with special reference to Eberhard the German’s
Laborintus. The paper shows that Eberhard the German’s observations about
prosopopoeia and his depiction of grammar emerge from a very rich literary
and iconographic tradition
Linguistica e tradizione classica come fonti per la glottopoiesi di Tolkien
No full textTolkien was not only a successful author of one of the most complex fantasy lore available in Western literature, but he was also a gifted philologist whose interests ranged from the most disparaged languages, such as Germanic languages, Finnish, Celtic languages and also Latin and Greek. For the creation of his glottopoietic masterpieces – Quenya and Sindarin – he followed an a posteriori process, moving from the templates represented by natural languages, such as Finnish, Germanic languages, Welsh and also Classical languages. Focussing on Quenya, in particular, it is noticeable how this invented language possesses a few relevant features that makes it similar to Latin not only according to the narrowest linguistic perspective but also according to a broader perspective, including the sociolinguistic viewpoint. Some of these features have been summarized and presented in this paper, showing how Tolkien not only reproduced – according to his phonoaesthetic taste – linguistic feature that were closer to Latin than to any other language, but he also reproduced and mimicked the relationships that Latin had with other languages during different periods of its existence.
I longa in iato nel Corpus Vindolandense
No full textThe Corpus Vindolandense includes the oldest extant Latin handwritten documents in Britain written between the 1st and 3rd century CE. One of the most interesting phenomenon concerns the so-called I longa. Actually, this graphic feature may mark the vowel, but also the palatal glide in hiatus. Our analysis concerns this latter case, i.e. the spelling phenomenon where [i] in hiatus context loses its status of syllabic nucleus, becoming a glide. Since in the Corpus Vindolandense I longa in hiatus occurs quite often, we assume that the gliding of i in hiatus occurred in Latin as spoken in Vindolanda. The process can be described as an instance of the sociolinguistic variation because its frequency reflects diaphasic and diastratic dynamics
Valerio Pisaniello, Federico Giusfredi, Alvise Matessi (eds.), Contacts of Languages and Peoples in the Hittite and Post-Hittite World. Volume 1, The Bronze Age and Hatti
No full textThe Word sanguis in the Romano-British Curse Tablets
No full textThis paper discusses the interaction of the local communities towards writing curse tablets. One of the main issues addressed in this analysis highlights how – compared with the broader scenario of Latin curses found elsewhere in the Roman Empire – these Romano-British documents show a particular feature which is not so frequent elsewhere: the word sanguis. The analysis of the distribution and context of use of sanguis will shed light on the different possible levels of Latinization and to the writing habits in Roman Britain
Writing and orthography in non-literary texts from roman britain: a sociolinguistic approach
No full textThe analysis of orthographic variation and the writing habit presented in this book represented a heuristic tool for the study of the sociolinguistic scenario of Roman Britain, sketching the different micro-histories of Latinization according to a new, ground-breaking, perspective. As a matter of fact, the assessment of the different orthographic variants may be revealing of the phenomena of language contact and interference; orthographic misspellings and idiosyncratic variants, which also varies according to the text type, writing materials, and writers, allows the sketch for different micro-histories of Latinizatio
The Vandalic language in the light of Latin medieval manuscripts
No full textThe objective of this study is to analyse certain distinctive
features of the Vandalic language as documented in medieval treatises.
These treatises provide limited yet valuable evidence of the language,
shedding light on the intricate and diverse dynamics involved in the
process of Romanisation and the perception of the Vandalic language as
portrayed in late Latin sources. As the main sources for our analysis,
in addition to the undeniable contribution of onomastics, representative
of characteristic elements of the Germanic languages and the sense of
community identity that was being built up in the Vandal kingdom, the
sources from the Collatio beati Augustini cum Pascentio Ariano and the
Anthologia Latina in the version handed down by the Codex Salmasianus
were taken into consideratio
Metaphors in Medieval metalanguage: The body in the parts of speech
No full textStarting from the 7th century, there is a dramatic shift from the metalanguage inherited from the ancient and early Christian scholars to new metalinguistics tags. In this sense, the Grammarians had to offer new criteria for understanding the word and its syntactic and morphological relationship as a physical entity with a clearly analysable structure. Such analyses highlighted the presence of significant metalinguistic lacunae paving the way to new approaches for examining the sentence and the words in their minimal semantic units. In this frame of studies, metaphors represent a useful strategy for explaining the different Parts of Speech, highlighting the contribution to the history of syntactic theories of the grammarians from the early Middle Ages
Expressing pain from the Antiquities to the Middle Ages: Heu as a part of speech
No full textThe interjection was recognised as a part of speech by the Latin grammarians, replacing the lack of the article class in the Greek system and maintaining the eight parts of speech. However, it is noteworthy that the definition of interjection among the different scholars and grammarians is not stable and wavers between the need to identify its role as a part of speech – whether it was an adverb or not – and its pragmatic function, identifying to what extent it was connected to emotions. The scholarly discussion over the interjection entangled and disentangled itself during the centuries, and its theoretical status has been verified in the present paper, which shows how the classical and non-classical evidence reconnects this part of speech to its most rhetorical function. This paper delves into this debate, focusing on the interjection heu and providing a history of the interjection, covering the classical period and the Middle Ages, according to the linguistic perspective and highlighting how Latin grammarians considered it in their linguistic framework
-d / -t alternation in the Vindolanda corpus: insights from Octavius’ letter
No full textThis paper deals with word-final alternation of -d / -t as it occurs in Tab.Vindol. 343, a letter written by the merchant Octavius (early 2nd century CE), as well as in other tablets of the Vindolanda corpus. While word-final -d occurs according to the morphological expectation in the large majority of the corpus, in Octavius’ letter the scenario is different, insomuch that non-classical spellings predominate. In particular, we consider to what extent this phenomenon may be interpreted within a historical sociolinguistic contex
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