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The Diachrony of Ditransitives
No full textWhile ample studies exist on ditransitives in various languages, notably from a typological perspective, more work needs to be done on identifying the main processes and factors that trigger and constrain the changes they undergo over time. The goal of this volume is to help fill this gap by bringing together data and information on individual languages that have thus far been left out of the discussion and by expanding our knowledge of already studied linguistic traditions so as to achieve a broader diachronic description. Since one of the distinctive features of ditransitives is their synchronic variability in terms of structural alternation and alignment split, diachronic research can throw up new insights into developmental dynamics that are eminently complementary; namely, on the one hand, the emergence, development and loss of construction alternation and, on the other, the acquisition of new functions over time. The analyses offered in the book yield different and interconnected answers to the general question of how ditransitives change by drawing on different functional principles that play a role in the diachronic reorganization of this dynamic domain and by providing a number of original theoretical suggestions
Old Italian ditransitive verbs: between alternation and change
No full textThis chapter deals with the variety of alignment types, as identified by typological research, to which ditransitive verbs gave rise in Old Italian, where the Recipient may be expressed not only as an indirect object, as is proper of ditransitive constructions in Modern Italian (showing indirective alignment), but also as a direct object: this mirrors the Latin state of affairs, where neutral alignment and secundative alignment were allowed beside indirective alignment. In this contribution it will be shown how the set of changes undergone by ditransitive constructions from Latin to Modern Italian is in principle larger and more complex than previously recognized, and how Old Italian is crucial when attempting to reconstruct the diachronic paths taken by this class of verbs. In particular, I will investigate the factors, until now largely unexplored, which can explain evolution, partial continuity and loss in the argument structure of Italian ditransitives
How do ditransitives change?
No full textThis chapter offers a descriptive and theoretical account of ditransitives and reassesses the contribution of diachronic research to their analysis and understanding. It opens with some introductory remarks about the syntactic and semantic status of ditransitives from a functional-typological perspective. Then, it provides an updated state of the art on the relevant literature on the topic, showing that scholarship has thus far predominantly dealt with ditransitives from a synchronic viewpoint. However, given that one of the characteristic traits of ditransitive verbs and constructions is precisely their high degree of synchronic variation in terms of structural alternation and alignment split, the diachronic approach can shed light on distinct routes of evolution followed by these verbs across languages. The present chapter focuses on the main developmental pathways along which ditransitives change; it examines which factors play a role in determining the emergence or decay of competing ditransitive constructions, as well as the rise of new meanings and functions; finally, it discusses the general principles that seem to be involved in the functional reorganization of coexisting ditransitive constructions
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Tommaso Maria Napoli Utriusque Architecturae Compendium Roma 1688 Breve trattato sulle fabbriche civili e militari e la conservazione delle architetture del frate domenicano Tommaso Maria Napoli
No full textIl volume Tommaso Maria Napoli Utriusque Architecturae Compendium Roma 1688 Breve trattato sulle fabbriche civili e militari e la conservazione delle architetture del frate domenicano Tommaso Maria Napoli, vuole contribuire ad accrescere le nostre conoscenze sui principi che dovevano sottendere alla realizzazione dell’architettura civile e militare del periodo barocco e tardo barocco, così come espressi nel breve trattato scritto dal frate architetto, nato a Palermo, Tommaso Maria Napoli (1659-1725), e pubblicato a Roma alla fine del Seicento. Alla traduzione dal latino del trattato, redatta da esperti (Fabio Zarbo e Pietro Zarbo), è inclusa un’interessante ricerca, redatta congiuntamente con Giuseppe Tantillo, sullo stato di conservazione di alcune delle architetture fatte realizzare o attribuite all’architetto Tommaso Maria Napoli. Infatti, al volume sono allegate alcune schede sulla consistenza e stato di conservazione della cattedrale dell’Assunzione di Maria a Dubrovnik, nell’odierna Croazia, delle ville Valguarnera e Palagonia a Bagheria, del monumento all’Immacolata e di uno dei campanili della chiesa di San Domenico a Palermo. Il volume è arricchito della presentazione e postfazione di Francesco Tomaselli che, tra l’altro, partendo dalla definizione di Restauro espressa da Tommaso Maria Napoli nel suo volume, presenta una stimolante riflessione sul significato dell’espressione Restauro.
Il volume Tommaso Maria Napoli Utriusque Architecturae Compendium Roma 1688... inaugura la collana Monumento Documento Il restauro per la conservazione del patrimonio architettonico ed ambientale: Teoria, conoscenza, interventi, della casa editrice Aracne di Roma, con Direttore Francesco Tomaselli, e con Comitato scientifico e di redazione internazionale
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