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I nomi deverbali e denominali in -(a)ta in siciliano antico
Full text linkIn this paper, I attempt to provide an initial description of the behaviour of nouns ending in -(a)ta in Old
Sicilian, as evidenced by the texts collected in ARTESIA (14th-16th century). Deverbal and denominal nouns
in -(a)ta are analysed in the context of theoretical insights provided by the reference literature on Italian
and Romance languages. Based on this, it is possible to confirm for Sicilian some of the characteristics
previously identified for Italian nouns ending in -(a)ta. The analysis also helps to characterise the semantic
core of the derivational process that creates these nouns, which serves to extract a discrete and identified
entity from a general process or from a mass entity
Evaluative suffixes in Archaic Latin: A cognitive morpho-pragmatic account for –ellus/-illus in Plautus
No full textA preliminary investigation on Latin diminutives conducted within a framework that holds together the synchronic and diachronic explanation model of polysemy elaborated in Cognitive Linguistics and morpho-pragmatic studies on diminutive
The case of cusà in Sicilian: From interrogative clause to epistemic adverb and discourse marker
Full text linkModalità “orientata sul partecipante” in siciliano contemporaneo: un’analisi dei dati dell’Atlante linguistico della Sicilia (ALS)
No full textConditional connection explored: the case of Sicilian cusà
Full text linkStemming from a wh -question, the Sicilian marker cusà ( cu sa ‘who knows’) expresses several epistemic meanings, which can also reach the realm of conditionality. The paper explores the discourse profile of cusà as it emerges from the analysis of diachronic data (from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) and present-day informal Sicilian, namely spoken Sicilian and present-day informal Sicilian as written by speakers on the web. These data suggest a possible path of development leading from the wh- question to new functions. We propose that the origin of this development can be explained in the light of the strategy of the “impossible question”, while the diverse functions of cusà emerged through concomitant processes of desemantization, reanalysis, and subjectification
Testi e Linguaggi 14 2020 La semantica dello Spazio, del Movimento e della Maniera a cura di Claudio Iacobini, Luisa Brucale, Luisa Corona
No full textRomance compounds
No full textThe special issue offers an up-to-date, critical description of Romance compounds. The papers are theoretically aware and discuss various crucial issues for morphological theory. Authors have been asked to follow a scheme of issues to be addressed, for the sake of homogeneity and comparability.
The issue is made of seven papers, each of which is devoted to a specific language: Catalan (by Elisenda Bernal), French (by Florence Villoing), Italian (by Francesca Masini & Sergio Scalise), Latin (by Luisa Brucale), Portuguese (by Graça Rio-Torto & Sílvia Ribeiro), Romanian (by Maria Grossmann) and Spanish (by Emiliano R. Guevara).
The issue is a product of the following projects on compounding coordinated by Sergio Scalise in the last years, namely: Morbo/Comp, funded by the Department of Foreign Modern Languages and Literatures of the University of Bologna, and CompoNet, a PRIN project funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR)
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
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