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Homo mensura. Corpo umano e modelli spaziali in sardo medioevale
No full textIl volume si colloca all’intersezione di diversi ambiti di ricerca, unitariamente convergenti sul sardo medioevale quale oggetto di studio e, sul piano del metodo, sulla centralità del fenomeno testuale nell’indagine linguistic
Considerazioni di tipologia morfologica sul pronome riflessivo in greco
No full textIn this paper I analyze the morphological evolution of Greek reflexive pronoun from Homeric Greek to Modern Greek in light of several hypotheses of diachronic typology.
First, I discuss the morphological classification of reflexive strategies proposed by Faltz (1985) and I suggest an additional possible classification according to person marking. Then, I sketch the history of reflexive pronoun in Greek on the basis of the typological classification proposed before. Moreover, two diachronic universals on person marking in reflexive pronouns proposed by Faltz (1985) are presented. Faltz's universals are then discussed according to Greek data. Conclusions are relevant for both typology and historical linguistics.
On the one hand, the proposed analysis supplies typology with interesting data to test diachronic universals. On the other hand, it allows to collocate some phenomena of the history of Greek language in a wider typological frame. Obviously, in such an extended period of time, it is not possible to examine in detail all the attested reflexive markers, but it is necessary to concentrate on the forms that developed into Modern Greek reflexives. However, given such a large time scale it is possible to observe a series of changes not analyzable otherwise
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
L'evoluzione semantico-funzionale dell'elemento -th- nella morfologia verbale del greco
No full textThis work deals with the verbal system of Ancient Greek, focusing on the multifunctional suffix -th-, and in particular on the hypothesis that a connection between the present forms in -tho and the passive aorist in -the- exists.
The exposition will proceed as follows: after discussing the distribution of the suffix -the- in Homeric language, and its role within pairs of apparently synonymous verbs, the idea that these couples manifest the causative/inchoative opposition will be proposed and commented toghether with a detailed analysis of the contexts in which the different verb forms occur. Subsequently some previous typological studies on causative/inchoative alternations will be illustrated, and a semantic map for the grammatical meanings and functions of the inchoative will be shown to apply also to Homeric data. On the basis of these preliminary conclusions, the relationship between the presents in -tho and the middle voice will be analysed. Eventually the development and the functions of the aorist in -the-, and the principal factors which motivate its contrast with the other middle aorist forms will be discussed
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