317 research outputs found
Ethnic and Linguistic Identity: Present and Past
No full textThe author reflects on the different ways of understanding the concept of identity and the relationships that identity has with the different language paradigms (structuralism and chomskyan formalism versus the approach of those who consider language as inseparable from the speakers and their agencies). In the light of the initial theoretical considerations, the author evaluates how the sense of ethnic belonging has been used in different historical moments to reinforce linguistic groups’ identity function. In fact, the ethnic arguments of authors of the archaic and classical Greece, as, e.g., Herodotus, were then taken over the course of history up to the time of modern nationalisms. Language attitudes brought on the scene by Aristophanes in some comedies are analyzed as a case study suitable to show the linguistic means employed to represent the Athenian identity on the scene at the end of the 5th century BC. Finally, the author draws on the results of an international survey just ended to show the means most frequently used to represent the personal identity in discourse level
The Greek of Italy between archaism, internal evolution and contact phenomena
No full textThis paper aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the Greek of Italy with regard to his
dialect differentiation and long-term trends. After addresing some issues regarding the absolute
and relative chronology of the Doric domain, internal lines of evolution that appear to be
characterized by several peculiarities are analysed. The first area is linguistic communication
with the motherland. The second is the presence of poles that have promoted linguistic standardization
processes (Tarentum, Syracuse) and poles that have been affected by these processes
(Rhegium, Siris, Locri). Lastly, particular attention is devoted to the analysis of the interlinguistic
contact that characterized the Greek of Italy during the Hellenistic and Roman eras.
In order to clarify the dynamics of this contact situation, an analysis is conducted of certain
inscriptions that reveal the different types of interference with the Italic languages and Latin
Per una visione variazionistica del greco antico.
No full textApplicazione delle moderne teorie variazionistiche al greco antico
LINGVARUM VARIETAS
No full textThe inscriptions on Kafizin vases (Cyprus, 225-218 BC) were engraved by a group of pot- ters and textile workers which were characterised by intimate relations among them, as to be defined a real ‘social group’. The use of Cypriot dialect (on the vases), written in the traditional syllabic writing is a real identity act, since the prevailing/widespread language was the Hellenistic koinè (written in alphabet). In light of this sociolinguistic picture, some products of language contact between the two codes present in the social repertoire are analysed. Among the contact phenomena found in the speakers’ discourse, a case of code-switching is investigated; as the products found in the language, mixed forms and the case of nasals in pre-consonant position are examined; as this example, in Kafizin data the premises for analysing the nasals of neo-Cypriot dialect were individuated
Modularity of the Consani-Scholten quintic
No full textWe prove that the Consani-Scholten quintic, a Calabi-Yau threefold over Q, is Hilbert modular. For this, we refine several techniques known from the context of modular forms. Most notably, we extend the Faltings-Serre-Livn'e method to induced four-dimensional Galois representations over Q. We also need a Sturm bound for Hilbert modular forms; this is developed in an appendix by José Burgos Gil and the second author
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