122 research outputs found
Types of Possessive Structures in the Balkan languages and in Arberesh
No full textIn this paper, we analyse the syntactic structures associated with predicative possession in Albanian, Bulgarian, Modern Greek and Arbëresh. Many languages model their possessive constructions on the split between alienable (which includes temporary possession and permanent possession) and inalienable possession (which involves kinship terms, body parts, physical traits, abstract properties, part-whole relations). The languages we analyse show that this split (alienable vs. inalienable) is not sufficient to cover the entire domain of what is called possession. More than these two domains are relevant for the languages under study.
From the syntactic point of view, two predominant strategies have been identified to express the predicative possession in these languages: the use of a verb like HAVE and the use of a verb like BE and a preposition. While typical for many non-Indo-European languages, this second strategy is quite rare in the Indo-European family. The literature (Stolz et al. 2008; Stassen 2009) reports similar cases only from two languages: Icelandic and Portuguese
L’arte magica del creare. Neologismi nell’opera di Ismail Kadare
No full textL'articolo si focalizza sui neologismi presenti nell'opera narrativa di Ismail Kadare. In particolare, vengono presi in considerazione i meccanismi attraverso i quali l'autore crea nuove forme aggettivali, avverbiali e nominali
Il Messale di Gjon Buzuku: la lingua materna nella prassi liturgica albanese
No full textMeshari ‘The Missal’ (1555) is the first known printed book in Albanian. It is a translation from the Latin of the Catholic Missal, made by the ecclesiastical Gjon Buzuku. The only known copy extant is preserved in the Apostolic Library of the Vatican in Rome. It is missing the frontispiece and the first 16 pages, so the title and place of publication of the work are not known. The place the book was printed is thought to be Venice. The Meshari contains texts of prayers, rituals, catechetical texts and the liturgies of the main holidays. All we know about the author is from the book’s colophon written by Buzuku himself in Albanian. In the colophon, he explains the reasons that led him to divulge the Christian doctrine using the language of its land. The time in which The Meshari appeared was of great cultural decay for Albania, a land where frictions have been consumed between Catholicism and Orthodoxy, and where Christian and Muslim civilizations were one against the other. Buzuku offers to the people of Albanian believers to approach the Sacred scriptures through their language. Since the use of Latin was far from the understanding of Albanian people, Buzuku translated the divine Word in order to allow that it was comprehensible to the Albanian Christians
LA SCRITTURA OBLIQUA DI ISMAIL KADARE L'ÉCRITURE OBLIQUE D'ISMAÏL KADARÉ
No full textPromossa dal Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali Comparati, in collaborazione
con la Scuola di Dottorato in Lingue, Cultura e Società Marco Polo System g.e.i.e., Associazione
ASCI degli Studi, Art Kontakt, Associazione Nazionale Italo-Albanese ANIA,
Centro Interdipartimentale di Studi Balcanici, l’iniziativa si riallaccia all’attività già svolta
nel 2006 e nel 2009, approdata alla pubblicazione di due volumi di atti: Leggere Kadare
(Biblion, a cura di A. Scarsella) e Kadare Europeo (Bulzoni, a cura di G. Turano). Si è
inteso quindi proseguire e aggiornare il monitoraggio della cultura albanese oggi, attraverso
approcci di ricerca differenziati: storia, lingua, letteratura e cinema, mantenendo altresì vivo
il laboratorio di lettura dell’opera di Ismail Kadare. Improntato a un non minore rigore
scientifico, lo staff dei collaboratori si arricchisce nella presente pubblicazione dell’apporto di
studiosi provenienti da Università italiane e straniere, con l’intenzione di attirare ulteriormente
l’attenzione sul patrimonio di memoria e di idee connesso all’Albania e agli albanesi
in Italia e in Europa
QUANDO CASO E ACCORDO SONO DISGIUNTI: SOGGETTI ACCUSATIVI E DATIVI NELL’ALBANESE E NEI DIALETTI ARBËRESHË
No full textAlbanian and Arbëresh dialects have a number of subordinate subjunctive clauses in which the subordinate subject can appear both pre- and post-verbally and it alternates between the morphologically unmarked nominative case and the marked dative or accusative case. The contexts in which the subject emerges with dative and accusative case admit the phenomenon of Clitic climbing, the raising of a clitic from a subordinate clause to a matrix one. These facts seem to suggest that the subjunctive is [-Tense], i.e. it has not independent temporal reference and therefore: a) its subject does not rise in the specifier of the TP projection but remains in situ, within the vP, surfacing in the final position of the entire structure (and in cases in which it appears in preverbal position it is because it is in a raised Topic position);
b ) the subjunctive, as an infinitival with a reduced structure, can form a kind of clause-union when it is embedded under certain particular functional verbs.
The data show that the assertion made in Chomsky (2001 , 2005) according to which the agreement between T and the subject is also involved in nominative case assignment to the subject of the clause should be reviewed because, despite the agreement between the subjunctive and the logical subject is always morphologically visible, the case is not always the expected one. Therefore in subjunctive structures, agreement and case must be separated since they are two unrelated phenomena
PËRKTHIMI NDËRGJUHËSOR DHE AI NDËRKULTUROR. PROBLEMI I MARRËDHËNIES ME ALTERITETIN: RASTI I ROMANIT PRILLI I THYER I ISMAIL KADARESË
No full textIn this paper, I focus on some issues related to the translation of Ismail Kadare's novel Broken april from Albanian into French and Italian. I analyse the different solutions implemented by Italian and French translators in order to render those words and expressions that represent specific values in Albanian culture; words and expressions that refer to customs and traditions which can be easily understood in Albanian language but are unfamiliar to an Italian or French reader. Despite the high degree of complexity of the problems coming during the translation process, due to the restrictions imposed by the new linguistic and cultural context, this does not prevent translators from recreating the atmosphere of the Albanian novel without losing the essence of the original work. Italian and French translations evoke the same emotional response and the same feelings as the original, proving that translation of a work always allows us to overcome language barriers, even if this raises theoretical and practical problems
Modal particles in Albanian Subjunctive, Infinitive and Supine constructions: Presence vs absence of clitic climbing
No full textIt is a well-known fact that the infinite/subjunctive substitution, attested in Balkan languages, correlates with possibility/impossibility of clitic climbing. Modal particles, which precede subjunctive verbs, have been taken as minimality blockers for clitic movement. Focussing on standard Albanian and Albanian dialects, I will show that the possibility/impossibility of clitic climbing cannot be attributed to the absence/presence of modal particles, since, on the one hand, it is possible to find raising of the clitic in contexts with modal particles, i.e. clitic climbing out of infinitival clauses characterized by the presence of two blocking heads (a preposition and a modal particle) and from supine constructions (preceded by a nominal particle), whereas, on the other hand, clitic climbing is impossible in contexts without modal particles. It seems that, at least in Albanian, the distribution of clitics does not depend on the presence or absence of modal particles, but it is related to the presence or absence of the functional category T. I will assume that clitic movement is the result of two operations: movement to the T head and morphological incorporation (m-merger in Matushansky’s (2006) sense)
NGA TEORIA E PARIMEVE DHE E PARAMETRAVE TEK TEORIA E MINIMALIZMIT: FRAZA KAUZATIVE
No full textQuesto breve articolo considera tre diverse strutture causative della lingua albanese che differiscono rispetto alla posizione del soggetto della frase subordinata. Nella prima, il soggetto subordinato ha caso nominativo ed è realizzato in posizione preverbale. Nel secondo tipo, il soggetto occupa la posizione finale. Nel terzo tipo, il soggetto subordinato ha caso accusativo e segue il verbo causativo. Viene analizzata la struttura interna di tutti e tre i tipi nell'ambito della Teoria dei Principi e Parametri e della Teoria Minimalista
Roli i shkencave albanologjike për njohjen e shqipes dhe të Shqipërisë në Itali
No full textIn this article, the author reconstructs the history of the Albanological studies that have marked the spread of knowledge of the Albanian language and Albania in Italy. Albanian studies in Italy date from the beginning of the XVIII century. Language, literature, culture, geography and history of Albania have taken place and have appeared in various fields of study. In the field of linguistics, Italian and Arbëresh scholars specifically focused on Albanian etymology, historical phonetics, philology, lexicography, morphosyntax, dialectology; on the issue of the origin of the Albanian language; in determining its place within the Indo-European languages; in its relations with other languages of the Balkans. They approached Albanian with the methods of descriptive grammar and those of generative linguistics. They drafted dictionaries and grammars.
In addition to linguistics, studies were made in the field of literature, dedicated to the Renaissance period; to the popular and religious literature; the indipendence and post-war literature; the modern and contemporary Albanian literature.
Another field in which Albanian studies, in Italy, has become object of study is documentary literature that sheds light on history, geography, culture, ethnography, politics and socio-economic situation of Albania. All these works offer a complete image of Albanian world
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