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Giovanni Giorgi e Andrea Molza scriptores. Due volti dell'orientalistica romana
No full textTra il pontificato di Pio VII (1800-1823) e l’inizio di
quello di Pio IX (1846-1878), nel periodo che segna la
transizione tra l’età napoleonica e quella risorgimentale,
l’orientalistica romana visse un momento di crescita
importante. La sperimentazione di nuovi approcci
metodologici e le nuove acquisizioni scientifiche
furono frutto del dinamismo impresso da un gruppo
eterogeneo di intellettuali che animarono all’epoca la
Biblioteca Vaticana, l’Archiginnasio della Sapienza e
la Congregazione della Propaganda Fide. Lo scambio
tra gli accademici locali e i letterati che giungevano
a Roma dai paesi del Vicino Oriente venne salutato
con particolare entusiasmo dalla Royal Asiatic Society
(RAS) di Londra, il cui Translation Fund (stabilito nel
1828) era destinato a promuovere nuove collaborazioni
tra lo Stato e gli enti di ricerca1.
Nello scriptorium ebraico della Biblioteca Vaticana
in quegli anni si avvicendarono, tra gli altri, due personaggi
estremamente emblematici: Giovanni Giorgi
(1761-1827) e Andrea Molza (1783-1851). Personalità
antitetiche per origini, formazione e ambizioni sociali,
Giorgi e Molza incarnarono due volti caratterizzanti
dell’ebraistica romana. Contribuirono in forma diversa
all’arricchimento e alla riorganizzazione dei fondi
orientali, vivendo la dimensione quotidiana del microcosmo
della Biblioteca, partecipando anche di tensioni
e rivalità interne, non sempre sanabili
Regular disharmonies in an early 18th-century Dačkerēn text: A diachronic interpretation
No full textThe present article proceeds from that stream of Turcological research according to which the category of “exception”, within the context of (Turkic) vowel harmony, is to be regarded as at least misleading. From a historical point of view, the perfect vowel harmony of contemporary Turkish may be considered a later development which evolved from a primitive, regularly disharmonic system. Through a thorough scrutiny of an 18th-century Armeno-Turkish text, we add new arguments to the debate, by observing that the vowel phonology of Turkic languages seems to have been ruled by at least two colliding processes: a primitive, regular disharmony-triggered morphemic marking [RDMM] versus a transmorphemic rightward vowel harmonising [RVH]. A possible interpretation of some local “disharmonic” phenomena — fossilised remains of a primitive stress assignment? — is proposed here
Further Observations on The Status of The Graphemes qa (‹Ka›) and g<sub>1</sub>a in Turkic Brāhmī
No full textIn the present paper we will examine a number of graphotactic rules which emerge from an analysis of several graphemic alternations, observed in a delimited Turkic text corpus in Brāhm-i script. This analysis will lead us to propose a possible reconstruction of the phonemic dorsal system denoted by the linguistic domain here considered: such a system is intended to be effective exclusively within this specific domain. In particular, we will examine the graphophonemic status of the akṣaras usually transcribed as ‹qa› and ‹g1a› within the Northwestern Brāhmī script system, as they occur both in Tokharian and Turkic scribal practice. Though our primary goal is the consistency of the proposed reconstruction, rather than its historical soundness, we will eventually argue that, within the dorsal system here described, no ‘voiced’–‘voiceless’ opposition is retrievable
Isa the Prophet: some Turkish anecdotes not found in the Arabic tradition. Part 1: The long-living worshipper
No full textThis article is a first outcome of a long-term research project, aiming to gather and classify those Osmanlı narrative texts, both prose and verse, which deal with the “Muslim” Jesus, and which seem to have no counterpart in Arabic tradition, according to repertories.1 In the course of my survey of the Turkic ʿİsà corpus, I have detected a number of “Märchen-Typen” that will be discussed in a series of publications. In this first instalment, I would like to present the story of the Long-living worshipper
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
ʿİsà the Prophet: some Turkish anecdotes not found in the Arabic tradition. Part 2.1. Talking objects and animals. Part 2.2. Miscellanous topics
No full textThe text below is the second instalment of a series devoted to the various “Märchen-Typen” in the Turkic ʿİsà corpus. While in the first part, which appeared in the previous issue of the COMSt Newsletter, I dealt in detail with the Long-living Worshipper story (s. also Appendix for some additional observations on this topic), the second is devoted to a series of stories featuring talking objects and animals, namely the Talking Frog and the Talking Mountain. It also includes two additional short miraculous narratives
ʿİsà the Prophet: Some Turkish Anecdotes not Found in the Arabic Tradition. Part 3: A Context-based Approach: Central Asian Collections
No full textThe text below is the third instalment of a series of research notes concerning the Turkic ʿİsà corpus. The first two parts (published in the COMSt Newsletter issues 2 and 3, 2011), dealt with the particular “Märchen-Typen” found in the Turkic tradition, including the Long-living Worshipper story, the stories of the Talking Frog and the Talking Mountain (s. also Appendix below for some additional observations). In the third instalment, I change the approach from looking at particular motifs to looking at text collections in which these and other similar stories are transmitted. The occasion is used to introduce more previously unstudied texts to the broad academic community. For a general introduction on the popular motifs in the Turkic ʿİsà tradition, as well as for an explanation of the transliteration convention used in this article, s. COMSt Newsletter 2, July 2011, p. 25
A tentative (graphemically-based) reconstruction of the vowel phonology of an early 18th-century Turkish-ġaršūnī text from Edessa (present-day Șanhurfa)
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