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Selezione dei fornitori & vendor rating
Full text linkSupplier Selection & Vendor Rating: An approach to their integration.
The lack of creation of shareable knowledge from both implicit and explicit information within a company is one of the worst side effects of a lack of integration between the supplier selection phase and the ex-post vendor rating.
The paper is aimed at providing a scalable approach to implement with low effort this integration, by means of traditional and well-known techniques such as Multi-Criteria Decision Making, What-If analysis, and risk estimation. As a consequence the hard task of a comparison among a past-supplier and a “newer” one is eventually enabled, as shown and discussed in the industrial example
Dal lat. vox all'ingl. voice. Alla ricerca della diatesi
No full text‘Voice’ became the most frequent term in domain of studies concerning the verbal category of diathesis, or indeed grammatical voice.
The English lexeme voice is a loan word from the Latin vox, through the
ancient French, voix. But, if the path taken by the signifier is quite noticeable, the signified is harder to define and describe.
Vox appears in the works by Latin grammarians, about verbal accidents,
along with other terms, such as significatio or affectus or genus, but it hasn’t the same meaning. Vox refers to formal and morphological feature of diathesis, instead others labels represent semantic property. Charisius used vox with the determiners ‘active’ or ‘passive’ to denote the verbal ending opposed to meaning. In Institutiones Grammaticae by Priscianus, the term is used also without determiners, especially in a context in which one could translate vox as morpheme.
In Modern Linguistics, voice assumes a broader meaning: although it maintains the reference to formal feature, like in Latin, it has become a hyperonym relating to the verbal category that has to do with the alternations in the correspondence between semantic roles and grammatical relations (Shibatani 2004: 1146). However, there is a disagreement among linguists about use of category labels: some scholars (Mel’čuk 1993; Kulikov 2010) use voice, keeping the Latin
meaning, in opposition to Greek term diathesis.
The metalinguistic story sheds light on possible research toward two directions. The first investigation explores retrospectively the label’s origin and briefly the Greek model; the second one proceeds from Latin to Modern Age to clarify the meaning of voice and some grammatical voice-related terms
Animato e inanimato vs comune e neutro: tratti pertinenti
No full textSince ancient times, a definition of grammatical gender is a complex issue,
especially in order to establish the principles that underlie to gender’s categorization
and nature of the same category.
Aristotle (Rhet. III 5, 1407b) tells us that Protagoras was the first to recognize
and classify how many and which are nominal genders. In that classification the ‘masculine’ gender (ἄρρενα) and the ‘feminine’ one (θήλεα) are already present
and defined (although they will undergo some variation in the later scholars, both Greek and Latin). The term for the third grammatical gender that we know
from some Indo-European languages, σκεύη, means in ancient Greek ‘inanimate objects’ and ‘things’. Further, this term has been modified: Aristotle uses τὸ
μεταξύ ‘what is between masculine and feminine’ and Dionysius Thrax attests οὐδέτερον ‘neither’, ‘neither masculine nor feminine’, that is neuter in Latin, ‘neutro’
in Italian. In the τέχνη γραμματική (Tékhnē grammatikḗ) by D. Thrax, there is also the term ‘common’, meaning another gender added to the three already
mentioned in the grammatical treaty. The labels ‘animate’ and ‘inanimate’ don’t seem to belong to antiquity within classification of genders. In the studies about
gender in the early Indo-European language, the opposition between ‘animate’ and ‘inanimate’ occurs in some works by Meillet (to quote some of them, 1921
and 1930), correlated with the tripartition of genders, masculine-feminine-neuter.
Depending on whether one accepts the reconstruction and the theory that
the Proto-Indo-European language knew an original nominal system in which the opposition between animate and inanimate prevailed, earlier than the tripartite
system of genders (masculine, feminine, neuter), it remains to choose which kind of terminological pairs previously proposed is more appropriate in domain of
gender system in IE languages, especially taking into account the level of linguistic analysis (semantic or syntactic) in which it is used
La teoria grammaticale di Robertus Kilwardby: un approccio metalinguistico
No full textRobert Kilwardby was archbishop in Canterbury (1272), Cardinal in Porto (1278), studied in Oxford and then moved to Paris, where he held lectures on grammar and logic. He has been discovered in the last decades and seems a significant figure in the landscape of the linguistic studies under the scholastics in 13 th century for his writings in Aristotelian logic and grammar theory. Most of his works and commentaries remained unedited, some other works have been wrongly ascribed to him, so that it was difficult to build a correct image of the depth of his thinking. Especially Kilwardby’s works on grammar, commentaries to Priscian’s Institutiones grammaticaeand De ortu scientiarum, show his innovative vision of grammar as a science, of syntax as a scientific matter through his role as a representative of the intentionalism. His linguistic interest for the syntax and the parts of speech and his exact terminology contributed to the development of linguistic thought and grammar theory in the thirteen century
Socio-fonetica o sociofonetica? : oscillazioni metalinguistiche di una disciplina ancora in via di definizione
No full textIl capitolo analizza l'evoluzione metalinguistica dell'etichetta "sociofonetica", a partire dalla sua prima comparsa nel 1974 fino agli usi più recenti, con particolare attenzione al rapporto tra sociolinguistica e fonetica acustica
Metafora e metalinguisticità riflessiva: un caso mediolatino
No full textIl contributo prende in considerazione esempi di espressioni metaforiche impiegate nella descrizione di fenomeni linguistici e attestate nella tradizione grammaticale del Medioevo occidentale latino
La nascita di alcuni termini metalinguistici dal lessico medico greco: il caso di arthron.
No full textIn ch. 20 of Aristotle’s Poetics, the term árthron occurs among the parts of speech probably for the first time in the literature.Although several influential studies have been conducted on the subject with special attention to this controversial chapter of Poetics (Pagliaro 1954, Melazzo 2002), a univocal interpretation of the term árthron as conceived by Aristotle has not yet been worked out in much detail.The current interpretation of this term as ‘article’ is a legacy of the grammatical tradition following Aristotle. Such tradition pointed out the link between árthron and the semantic field of ‘articulation’, which crucially draws on the lexicon of medicine and biology. However, the metalinguistic terminology preceding systematisation reveals that this is only one of the several meanings of the term.In Poetics, árthron is defined first and foremost as phōnḗ ásēmos, namely ‘meaningless sound’. As Antonino Pagliaro (1954) remarked, árthron does not seem to refer to a definite object – or, more specifically, to any of the parts of speech – but it is more likely to indicate a relation. Hence, the term should be regarded as closer to the category of ptṓsis (inflection) than that of sýndesmos (the ‘combiner’, cf. Swiggers & Wouters 2002: 104), in which latter case it is often subject to semantic ambiguity both in the ancient sources and in the modern interpretations
Some observations about a metalinguistic use of lat. comprehendo
No full textL’articolo si occupa dei termini latini comprehendo e comprehensio. L’analisi mostra come i valori semantici di “comprendere” e “capire”, associati al primo, contribuiscano a collocarlo all’interno della categoria dei logonimi della ricezione; la polisemia del termine ne rivela tuttavia un’evoluzione semantica complessa. Al primo significato, concreto, di “prendere” si sono infatti aggiunti valori semantici astratti presumibilmente passando attraverso l’uso dello stesso come termine filosofico. Per comprehensio è testimoniato invece un importante ruolo nell’ambito del metalinguaggio dei grammatici latini
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
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