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Considerations on an integrated biochronological scale of Italian Quaternary Mammals
No full textViene analizzato il lavoro di MASINI e SALA (2007) sull’approccio integrato della distribuzione dei grandi e piccoli mammiferi dell’Italia continentale del tardo Pliocene e del Pleistocene, tenendo conto della nuova definizione del Quaternario, mettendo in risalto i punti di forza e quelli deboli della scala proposta. Vengono inoltre aggiunti nuovi dati sulla biocronologia a mammiferi del Pleistocene Superiore.The paper of MASINI and SALA (2007) regarding an integrated approach on the stratigraphic distribution patterns of large and small mammals in the late Pliocene and Pleistocene of the Italian peninsula is analysed, showing the weak and strong points. New data are presented on the mammal biochronology of the Late Pleistocen
New approaches to old Word Class issues
No full textIntroduction, historical and theoretical, to the volum
Listing between lexicon and syntax: Focus on frame-naming lists
No full textThe goal of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, we advocate the view that ‘listing’ (Masini et al. this issue) is a cross-level mechanism with cognitive grounding that manifests itself in various ways along the lexicon-syntax continuum. Indeed, we claim that some linguistic objects pertaining to the morphological and lexical level (as e.g. coordinating compounds, reduplications, (ir)reversible binomials) are structurally and functionally similar to freely created syntactic lists. On the other hand, we analyze a so far underdescribed type of lists in-between lexicon and syntax. Lists are often seen as instances of “natural coordination” (Wälchli 2005) where the conjuncts are lexico-semantically related; however, there are lists where the conjuncts are, rather, frame-related, i.e., by virtue of occurring in a list, they either evoke or build a frame, which may be either established or context-dependent. In this respect, we present two corpus-based case-studies from Italian concerning the V1+and+V2 construction (e.g. gratta e sosta ‘scratch and park ticket’, lit. ‘scratch and park’) and the all+list construction (e.g. tutto casa e chiesa ‘pious, churchy’, lit. ‘all home and church’). We discuss and analyze our data with the tools of Construction Grammar (Goldberg 1995, 2006) and Construction Morphology (Booij 2010)
Federalismo. Proposte di riforma della convivenza civile
No full textÈ un giorno imprecisato del 1941; una giovane donna sta per imbarcarsi su un traghetto quando viene fermata dalla polizia. ... La giovane donna si chiamava Ursula Hirschmann e sulle cartine da sigaretta era stato vergato da Ernesto Rossi e Altiero Spinelli, in collaborazione con suo marito Eugenio Colorni, un documento di azione politica, poi intitolato "Per un’Europa libera e unita. Progetto d’un manifesto". Quel documento avrebbe animato e guidato le speranze di riscossa del Vecchio Continente all’indomani del secondo conflitto mondiale ... Ancora oggi il Manifesto di Ventotene viene ricordato per l’audacia della proposta politica e per la lungimiranza di una visione federale dell’integrazione europea, tuttora largamente incompiuta. Proprio per questo coraggio il Manifesto è stato spesso richiamato..
Construction Morphology
No full textThe chapter provides an outline of Construction Morphology (Booij 2010), a recent model of morphology. The theory follows the basic tenets of Construction Grammar in treating form–meaning pairs (‘constructions’) as the basic units of language and assuming a continuum rather than a split between grammar and lexicon. Words and multi-word units are stored in memory if they have noncompositional properties and/or are conventionalized and frequent. Lexical items show a rich internal structure and are highly interconnected. Generalizations over stored items are captured in schemas: constructions consisting partly or entirely of variables. If productive, such schemas serve as templates for new words and word forms. Relations between schemas are captured in second-order schemas, which are particularly useful in modelling inflectional paradigms and paradigmatic word formation. The model offers a flexible architecture that complements construction-based syntax and accommodates both regularities and idiosyncrasies, as well as variation and change
Introduction: Theory and theories in morphology
No full textThis opening chapter provides an overview of the aims, structure, and contents of the volume. It ties together the individual chapters by identifying common themes that run through the various theories of morphology presented in the volume. These are the place of morphology in the architecture of language, the degree to which it is independent from other components of the grammar, the basic units of morphological analysis, and the relation between morphology on the one hand and syntax, semantics, phonology, and the lexicon on the other. A brief summary of the literature on types of morphological theories helps the reader to become oriented to the landscape of frameworks. The chapter closes with an overview of the three parts of the volume and the individual chapters in each part
Le lingue influenzano il nostro modo di pensare? Parole, concetti, categorie: il nostro sistema cognitivo è relativo?
No full textIl capitolo affronta l'antica questione del rapporto tra linguaggio e pensiero, tra parole e concetti, ripercorrendo la storia della teoria del relativismo linguistico (o ipotesi Sapir-Whorf) e accennando ad alcuni sviluppi recenti
Quando il linguaggio non è letterale. Perché nelle lingue due più due non fa sempre quattro.
No full textIl capitolo affronta la questione della non-composizionalità semantica nel lingue. Sono discusse le espressioni idiomatiche e metaforiche, che hanno un significato non deducibile dalla somma delle parti. Sono inoltre trattate la metafora concettuale (à la Lakoff & Johnson) e la metonimia
Phylogenetic relationships of genus Stertomys (Gliridae) from the “Terre Rosse” fissure filling (Gargano, Apulia)
No full textStertomys is an endemic genus of Gliridae commonly found in the Late Miocene “Terre Rosse” fissure fillings from Gargano (southern Italy). The taxonomy of this genus have been recently reconsidered and, up to date, five new species have been described beside the giant Stertomys laticrestatus Daams & Freudenthal 1985. The species have different biochronological range and may be assigned to two groups according to their size and complexity of the dental pattern. The smaller and morphologically simpler group includes Stertomys simplex Martín-Suárez & Freudenthal 2007, Stertomys daamsi Freudenthal &
Martín-Suárez 2006 (occurring in the older fissures) and Stertomys degiulii Rinaldi & Masini 2009, while the larger and more complex one takes Stertomys lyrifer Martín-Suárez & Freudenthal 2007, Stertomys daunius Freudenthal & Martín-Suárez 2006 (occurring in the older fissures) and S. laticrestatus. These two informal groups have been considered also as representing two distinct phylogenetic branches deriving from a common ancestor. Phylogenetic relationships among those species and their possible continental ancestor,
however, have never been investigated in detail.
In this contribution we presents the results of a parsimony phylogenetic analysis performed using PAUP software. The six Stertomys species have been considered together with several other related glirid taxa, distributed over a rather wide geographical and stratigraphical range, with the aim to verify if Stertomys is a monophyletic taxon and to identify its possible relationships with continental taxa, thus bringing some new contribution to the still open question.
of the ancestry of this endemic taxon
La linguistica, questa sconosciuta! Perché il linguista non è una persona che parla molte lingue (e neppure un Grammar Nazi!)
No full textDi cosa si occupa la linguistica? Spesso il linguista viene confuso con un poliglotta o con un correttore seriale e maniacale di errori. Il capitolo mira a tracciare il perimetro della disciplina, definendone scopi, metodi di indagine e applicazioni pratiche
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