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Il saggio costituisce una sintetica esposizione ragionata delle caratteristiche fonologiche, morf... more Il saggio costituisce una sintetica esposizione ragionata delle caratteristiche fonologiche, morfologiche e sintattiche di alcune delle variet\ue0 linguistiche presenti nell''Italia antica. Particolare attenzione \ue8 stata dedicata alle iscrizioni attestanti la presenza del celtico continentale (gallico e leponzio) e ai suoi rapporti con l''indoeuropeo ricostruito da un lato, e con il celtico insulare dall''altro
This paper considers the placement of the complementizer yád within the sentence and the function... more This paper considers the placement of the complementizer yád within the sentence and the functional value of yád in Old Indian. It will be noted that thecomplementizer yád, like other subordinating conjunctions in some ancient and modern Indo-European languages, can be preceded by a topicalized or a focalized phrase in its clause. In particular, in R̥gVeda there are many cases where yád is preceded by an element which seems to have moved from inside the sentence and also cases where yád is preceded by the inflected verb. Morover, some cases will be discussed showing the use of yád to introduce clauses governed by verbs of saying and knowing, both in Vedic and in Sanskrit, and a possible syntactic analysis of these structures.
The Milanese dialect has undergone a great deal of change with regard to subject-pronoun organiza... more The Milanese dialect has undergone a great deal of change with regard to subject-pronoun organization: after the Middle Ages and until the 17th century, it went through a period where the subject clitic system was far more developed than it is now. Among the various stages that occurred during the course of this evolution, I shall give consideration to the following: i) the ancient subject pronouns in nominative case have become the modern clitic subject pronouns; ii) in the documents dating from the 14th-15th centuries a process begins whereby the order between subject pronoun and pre-verbal negation changes; the first evidence of clitic “a” also appears; iii) in the 17th century, the Milanese dialect had a scl system much richer than now: the presence of scls in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and the 6th person (as far as the 4th is concerned, the scl of the 1st person applies; by the end of the 18th century, scls system has acquired a typology similar to that of contemporary Milanese.
Il dialetto milanese contemporaneo e caratterizzato da un sistema di clitici soggetto (d’ora in p... more Il dialetto milanese contemporaneo e caratterizzato da un sistema di clitici soggetto (d’ora in poi cls) che comporta cls per la 2a e 3a sg, assenza di cls nel caso di verbi impersonali, meteorologici e esistenziali e assenza di inversione V – cls nelle frasi interrogative. Questa situazione, descritta da Renzi - Vanelli 1983, e adeguata per il dialetto contemporaneo. Tuttavia, nel corso dei secoli, il milanese ha conosciuto stadi in cui il sistema dei cls era molto piu sviluppato di quanto non sia ora. Come altre varieta medievali, il milanese ha attraversato un periodo di pro-drop asimmetrico, con il quale il soggetto pronominale poteva essere assente nelle frasi principali, ma era sempre presente nelle frasi dipendenti. Durante questa stessa fase, i pronomi complemento tonici, destinati a diventare i moderni pronomi soggetto tonici, potevano essere gia usati in funzione di soggetto in una posizione diversa da quella abituale, per lo piu in una zona della frase dedicata ad ospitar...
At the beginning of the commentary to Ṛgveda (henceforth ṚV) 1.187, which is dedicated to pitú, e... more At the beginning of the commentary to Ṛgveda (henceforth ṚV) 1.187, which is dedicated to pitú, even though it is traditionally known as annastuti, Sāyaṇa explicitly introduces a passage from the Ṛgvidhāna, whose reading is different in some points from that of Meyer’s critical edition (Meyer 1877, 10: ‘totum hunc locum citat Sayaṇus ap. Müller [1903] non sine variis lectionibus’), although the general sense is the same. Meyer’s text is quoted below – in the transcription of his time – adjoining Sāyaṇa’s variant readings according to the current mode of transcription:
... | Ayuda. Per una storia della negazione in milanese in comparazione con altre varietà altoita... more ... | Ayuda. Per una storia della negazione in milanese in comparazione con altre varietà altoitaliane. Autores: Massimo Vai; Localización: Acme : annali della Facoltà di lettere e filosofia dell'Università degli studi di Milano, ISSN 0001-494X, Vol. 49, Nº 1, 1996 , pags. 57-98. ...
Delbruck’s work about Indo-European syntax, especially his contribution to the analysis of Vedic ... more Delbruck’s work about Indo-European syntax, especially his contribution to the analysis of Vedic syntax, is still a useful tool for those who want to deal with the study of ancient Indian syntax, with particular reference to methodological analysis of constituent order. In fact, the notions of basic and marked word order of sentences are already present in Delbruck’s perspective, along with the idea of constituent movements motivated, albeit through mechanisms of prosodic order, by the interface between syntax and information structure of the sentence. His most general law of Occasionelle Wortstellung should probably be differentiated into a set of movements of constituents, which can correspond to sentence orders functionally differentiated. However, the idea of reducing the apparent constituents order freedom of Vedic sentence to the interaction between a general basic word order and a general principle of movement determined by sentence information structure, makes Delbruck a tru...
ACME - Annali della Facoltà di Studi Umanistici dell'Università degli Studi di Milano, 2014
Contemporary Milanese dialect is characterized by a subject clitic (henceforth scl) system which ... more Contemporary Milanese dialect is characterized by a subject clitic (henceforth scl) system which includes: scl in 2nd and 3rd pers. sing., a lack of scl in postponed inflected verbs and in impersonal, meteorological and existential verbs; a lack of clitic inversion in interrogative clauses. This characterizations is adequate for contemporary Milanese dialect. However, over the centuries, Milanese dialect has undergone a great deal of change with regard to subject-pronoun system: between the Middle Ages and the modern era, it went through a stage where the scl system was far more developed than it is now. In fact, like other medieval varieties, Milanese dialect went through a period of asymmetrical pro-drop, wherein the pronominal subject may be lacking in main clauses, but is almost always present in embedded clauses. During the medieval phase of Milanese dialect, stressed complement pronouns, which later became modern subject pronouns, may also have been used as subjects in the lef...
Il saggio costituisce una sintetica esposizione ragionata delle caratteristiche fonologiche, morf... more Il saggio costituisce una sintetica esposizione ragionata delle caratteristiche fonologiche, morfologiche e sintattiche di alcune delle variet\ue0 linguistiche presenti nell''Italia antica. Particolare attenzione \ue8 stata dedicata alle iscrizioni attestanti la presenza del celtico continentale (gallico e leponzio) e ai suoi rapporti con l''indoeuropeo ricostruito da un lato, e con il celtico insulare dall''altro
This paper considers the placement of the complementizer yád within the sentence and the function... more This paper considers the placement of the complementizer yád within the sentence and the functional value of yád in Old Indian. It will be noted that thecomplementizer yád, like other subordinating conjunctions in some ancient and modern Indo-European languages, can be preceded by a topicalized or a focalized phrase in its clause. In particular, in R̥gVeda there are many cases where yád is preceded by an element which seems to have moved from inside the sentence and also cases where yád is preceded by the inflected verb. Morover, some cases will be discussed showing the use of yád to introduce clauses governed by verbs of saying and knowing, both in Vedic and in Sanskrit, and a possible syntactic analysis of these structures.
The Milanese dialect has undergone a great deal of change with regard to subject-pronoun organiza... more The Milanese dialect has undergone a great deal of change with regard to subject-pronoun organization: after the Middle Ages and until the 17th century, it went through a period where the subject clitic system was far more developed than it is now. Among the various stages that occurred during the course of this evolution, I shall give consideration to the following: i) the ancient subject pronouns in nominative case have become the modern clitic subject pronouns; ii) in the documents dating from the 14th-15th centuries a process begins whereby the order between subject pronoun and pre-verbal negation changes; the first evidence of clitic “a” also appears; iii) in the 17th century, the Milanese dialect had a scl system much richer than now: the presence of scls in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and the 6th person (as far as the 4th is concerned, the scl of the 1st person applies; by the end of the 18th century, scls system has acquired a typology similar to that of contemporary Milanese.
Il dialetto milanese contemporaneo e caratterizzato da un sistema di clitici soggetto (d’ora in p... more Il dialetto milanese contemporaneo e caratterizzato da un sistema di clitici soggetto (d’ora in poi cls) che comporta cls per la 2a e 3a sg, assenza di cls nel caso di verbi impersonali, meteorologici e esistenziali e assenza di inversione V – cls nelle frasi interrogative. Questa situazione, descritta da Renzi - Vanelli 1983, e adeguata per il dialetto contemporaneo. Tuttavia, nel corso dei secoli, il milanese ha conosciuto stadi in cui il sistema dei cls era molto piu sviluppato di quanto non sia ora. Come altre varieta medievali, il milanese ha attraversato un periodo di pro-drop asimmetrico, con il quale il soggetto pronominale poteva essere assente nelle frasi principali, ma era sempre presente nelle frasi dipendenti. Durante questa stessa fase, i pronomi complemento tonici, destinati a diventare i moderni pronomi soggetto tonici, potevano essere gia usati in funzione di soggetto in una posizione diversa da quella abituale, per lo piu in una zona della frase dedicata ad ospitar...
At the beginning of the commentary to Ṛgveda (henceforth ṚV) 1.187, which is dedicated to pitú, e... more At the beginning of the commentary to Ṛgveda (henceforth ṚV) 1.187, which is dedicated to pitú, even though it is traditionally known as annastuti, Sāyaṇa explicitly introduces a passage from the Ṛgvidhāna, whose reading is different in some points from that of Meyer’s critical edition (Meyer 1877, 10: ‘totum hunc locum citat Sayaṇus ap. Müller [1903] non sine variis lectionibus’), although the general sense is the same. Meyer’s text is quoted below – in the transcription of his time – adjoining Sāyaṇa’s variant readings according to the current mode of transcription:
... | Ayuda. Per una storia della negazione in milanese in comparazione con altre varietà altoita... more ... | Ayuda. Per una storia della negazione in milanese in comparazione con altre varietà altoitaliane. Autores: Massimo Vai; Localización: Acme : annali della Facoltà di lettere e filosofia dell'Università degli studi di Milano, ISSN 0001-494X, Vol. 49, Nº 1, 1996 , pags. 57-98. ...
Delbruck’s work about Indo-European syntax, especially his contribution to the analysis of Vedic ... more Delbruck’s work about Indo-European syntax, especially his contribution to the analysis of Vedic syntax, is still a useful tool for those who want to deal with the study of ancient Indian syntax, with particular reference to methodological analysis of constituent order. In fact, the notions of basic and marked word order of sentences are already present in Delbruck’s perspective, along with the idea of constituent movements motivated, albeit through mechanisms of prosodic order, by the interface between syntax and information structure of the sentence. His most general law of Occasionelle Wortstellung should probably be differentiated into a set of movements of constituents, which can correspond to sentence orders functionally differentiated. However, the idea of reducing the apparent constituents order freedom of Vedic sentence to the interaction between a general basic word order and a general principle of movement determined by sentence information structure, makes Delbruck a tru...
ACME - Annali della Facoltà di Studi Umanistici dell'Università degli Studi di Milano, 2014
Contemporary Milanese dialect is characterized by a subject clitic (henceforth scl) system which ... more Contemporary Milanese dialect is characterized by a subject clitic (henceforth scl) system which includes: scl in 2nd and 3rd pers. sing., a lack of scl in postponed inflected verbs and in impersonal, meteorological and existential verbs; a lack of clitic inversion in interrogative clauses. This characterizations is adequate for contemporary Milanese dialect. However, over the centuries, Milanese dialect has undergone a great deal of change with regard to subject-pronoun system: between the Middle Ages and the modern era, it went through a stage where the scl system was far more developed than it is now. In fact, like other medieval varieties, Milanese dialect went through a period of asymmetrical pro-drop, wherein the pronominal subject may be lacking in main clauses, but is almost always present in embedded clauses. During the medieval phase of Milanese dialect, stressed complement pronouns, which later became modern subject pronouns, may also have been used as subjects in the lef...
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