- Dip.to Culture e Civiltà, Università di Verona
Polo Didattico Zanotto.
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- Ivory, Ivory Carving, Mammoth Ivory, Ivory and bone technology, Sumerian, Textual criticism (Classics), and 87 moreAncient Grammar, Akkadian, Sumerian, Egyptian, Latin and Greek, Italic - Sabllic, Languages and Linguistics, Comparative Philology, Anatolian Languages (Languages And Linguistics), Latin languages, Romance philology, Music, Sumerian History, Sumerian Religion, Sumerian & Akkadian literature, Hittite, Hurrian, 3rd Millennium Sumerian Religious Concepts, Hattian, Sumerology, Lycian, Hittitology, Sidetic, Ancient Near Eastern Languages, Linguistics, Lydian, Hattic, Ergativity, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Indo-European Linguistics, Ancient Near Eastern History, Ancient Near East (Archaeology), Grammatology, Ancient Greek History, Ancient Near East, Right Periphery, Hittite Syntax, Sumerian Syntax, Xanthus the Lydian, Giorgio Agamben, Boiardo, Matteo Maria Boiardo, Scuola poetica siciliana, Scuola Siciliana, Poesia Italiana Medievale, Languages in Contact, Language contact, Syntax, Ancient Greek Language, Comparative Linguistics, Morphology, Ancient Indo-European Languages, Morphosyntax, Romance Languages, Anatolian Studies, Hittite Religion, Hattic Language, Anatolian Religions, Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, Biblical Studies, Theology, Anatolian Languages, Hittite archaeology, Anatolian Archaeology, Hittite Water Management, Water in the Hittite Culture, Ancient Greek Science and Philosophy, Ancient Greek Religion, Presocratic Philosophy, Orphism, Classical philology, Ancient Greek Philosophy, history of ancient Greek philosophy, Dell H. Hymes, Hurrian Language, Side In Pamphylia, Pamphylia Side, Side (Pamphylia), Cherokee History, Cherokee Language, Cherokee Studies, Cherokee Indians, Federal and Cherokee Relations, Eastern Cherokee, Western Cherokee, Cherokee Medicine, Native Plants of the Southern Appalachians, Native American Studies, and Cherokee Syllabaryedit
Research Interests: Writing Systems & Decipherment, Computational Linguistics, Grammatology, Anatolian Languages, Hittite, and 10 moreLinguistics, Writing Systems (Languages And Linguistics), Undeciphered Scripts, Writing systems, Undeciphered Writing Systems, Cuneiform, Zipf Law, Computational Linguistics & NLP, Computer Philology, and Computational Philology
The present work compares the verbal endings of the singular of some ancient I.E.languages showing how they point to a concatenative - agglutinative type. It is fur-thermore suggested that the original PIE morpheme of the third person... more
The present work compares the verbal endings of the singular of some ancient I.E.languages showing how they point to a concatenative - agglutinative type. It is fur-thermore suggested that the original PIE morpheme of the third person singular of theseries of endings developing into middle and perfect is to be reconstructed as *-h₁
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the present essay comments on a famous passage in Aristotle’s Politics discussing the meaning of φωνή and λόγος. Λόγος is often translated in italian as ‘parola’ (‘word’) in this passage, but as ‘ragione’ (‘reason’) in other similar... more
the present essay comments on a famous passage in Aristotle’s Politics discussing the meaning of φωνή and λόγος. Λόγος is often translated in italian as ‘parola’ (‘word’) in this passage, but as ‘ragione’ (‘reason’) in other similar passages of the same work. the influence of the meaning attributed intuitively to φωνή, that is ‘voice’ in the modern sense could be an explanation for this phenomenon. An attempt is then made to return a meaning of φωνή closer to the original. Unlike λόγος, φωνή has been polarized. ‘Word’ and ‘reason’ are both translations of λόγος legitimized by long traditions.
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Research Interests: History, Languages and Linguistics, Assyriology, Writing Systems & Decipherment, Computational Linguistics, and 14 moreGrammatology, Anatolian Languages, Hittite, Linguistics, Writing Systems (Languages And Linguistics), Mathematical Linguistics, Undeciphered Scripts, Writing systems, Undeciphered Writing Systems, Cuneiform, Zipf Law, Computational Linguistics & NLP, Computer Philology, and Computational Philology
The present essay comments on a famous passage in Aristotle’s Politics discussing the meaning of φωνή and λόγος. Λόγος is often translated in Italian as ‘parola’ (‘word’) in this passage, but as ‘ragione’ (‘reason’) in other similar... more
The present essay comments on a famous passage in Aristotle’s Politics discussing the meaning of φωνή and λόγος. Λόγος is often translated in Italian as ‘parola’ (‘word’) in this passage, but as ‘ragione’ (‘reason’) in other similar passages of the same work. The influence of the meaning attributed intuitively to φωνή, that is ‘voice’ in the modern sense could be an explanation for this phenomenon. An attempt is then made to return a meaning of φωνή closer to the original. Unlike λόγος, φωνή has been polarized. ‘Word’ and ‘reason’ are both translations of λόγος legitimized by long traditions.
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The present essay comments on a famous passage in Aristotle’s Politics discussing the meaning of φωνή and λόγος. Λόγος is often translated in Italian as ‘parola’ (‘word’) in this passage, but as ‘ragione’ (‘reason’) in other similar... more
The present essay comments on a famous passage in Aristotle’s Politics discussing the meaning of φωνή and λόγος. Λόγος is often translated in Italian as ‘parola’ (‘word’) in this passage, but as ‘ragione’ (‘reason’) in other similar passages of the same work. The influence of the meaning attributed intuitively to φωνή, that is ‘voice’ in the modern sense could be an explanation for this phenomenon. An attempt is then made to return a meaning of φωνή closer to the original. Unlike λόγος, φωνή has been polarized. ‘Word’ and ‘reason’ are both translations of λόγος legitimized by long traditions.
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Research Interests: Languages and Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Semitic languages, Hittitology, Writing Systems & Decipherment, and 16 moreComparative Semitic Linguistics, Grammatology, Comparative Linguistics, Anatolian Languages, Hittite, Luwian, Sabellic languages, Italic Languages, Writing systems, Indo-European Linguistics, Cuneiform, Graphemics, Unicode, Graphemics Grafematica Grafema Grapheme Written Language Scrittura Lettura Writing Reading Spelling Ortografia Orthography Iconicity Alphabet Alfabeto, Histprical Linguistics. IndoEuropean languages. Italic Group: Sabellian; Archaic Latin and Faliscan; generally Ancient Italy Linguistics and Epigraphy., and Grapheme-To-Phoneme
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The paper aims to review some problems connected to the term/concept ‘grapheme’. The major point concerns the question of the dependency of writing on the spoken language. We distinguish between semiotic and epistemological dependency. A... more
The paper aims to review some problems connected to the term/concept ‘grapheme’. The major point concerns the question of the dependency of writing on the spoken language. We distinguish between semiotic and epistemological dependency. A writing system is a code, most of which, in glottographic systems, re-codes the code of a given language (mainly the phonological one): in this sense, we accept the concept of dependency of writing systems (especially glottographic). The relation between grapheme and phoneme, however, is shown to be more epistemological than semiotic. We attempt to overcome this. The anthropological model offers solutions that are particularly interesting for ancient scripts. We introduce a concept of grapheme that covers different areas of function, from the core glottographic to the visual one.
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Nella comunicazione è stato presentato un breve sunto sullo stato degli studi riguardo la lingua e la scrittura delle iscrizioni di Side in sidetico.
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Ἀλεξάνδρεια - Alessandria. Rivista di glottologia 12 (2018) [2019], pp. 241–264. Brief abstract. Essay on the logos of Side in Arrianus, Anabasis. The legomenon reported in Arrianus is studied and discussed in connection with two factors:... more
Ἀλεξάνδρεια - Alessandria. Rivista di glottologia 12 (2018) [2019], pp. 241–264.
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Essay on the logos of Side in Arrianus, Anabasis.
The legomenon reported in Arrianus is studied and discussed in connection with two factors: on the one hand the correct value of the term "phoné" and, on the other, the invention of the Sidetic alphabet, for which an identity value becomes increasingly evident.
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Essay on the logos of Side in Arrianus, Anabasis.
The legomenon reported in Arrianus is studied and discussed in connection with two factors: on the one hand the correct value of the term "phoné" and, on the other, the invention of the Sidetic alphabet, for which an identity value becomes increasingly evident.
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Research Interests: Languages and Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Anatolian Studies, Hittitology, Historical Syntax, and 16 moreAncient Indo-European Languages, Indo-European Studies, Syntax, Anatolian Languages, Hittite, Linguistics, Proto Indo-European, Morphology and Syntax, Ergativity, Indo-European, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics, Indo-European Languages, Ergativity, thematic roles, syntax, Split Ergativity, Ergative, and Proto-Indo-European syntax
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Research Interests: Economic History, Historical Geography, Languages and Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Anatolian Studies, and 19 moreHittitology, Ancient Indo-European Languages, Syntax, Comparative Linguistics, Anatolian Languages, Hittite, Linguistics, Ancient Near East, Writing systems, Hurrian, Elamite, Indo-European Linguistics, Cuneiform, Nuzi, Hittite Syntax, Anatolian Syntax, Indoeuropean Syntax, Assyriologie, and IT In Humanities
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Research Interests: Languages and Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Anatolian Studies, Historical Syntax, Syntax, and 13 moreComparative Linguistics, Anatolian Languages, Hittite, Plural quantification, Linguistics, Syntax-Semantics Interface, Morphology and Syntax, Ergativity, Hittitology, Hittite, Ancient Near East, Syntactic Alignment, Hittites, Hittite language and culture, and Split Ergativity
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Textual syntax mediates textual syntax in comics. An exemplary/extreme case. The present paper approaches problems of textual syntax in non-literary texts, in particular in figurative texts, like comics and graphic novels. The problems... more
Textual syntax mediates textual syntax in comics. An exemplary/extreme case.
The present paper approaches problems of textual syntax in non-literary texts, in particular in figurative texts, like comics and graphic novels. The problems analyzed concern a kind of textuality which is mediated through textuality. In a recent paper, A. Manco (2017) introduces a number of technical terms for related concepts that try to assess a metalinguistic vacuum. In so doing he exemplifies in particular the concept of “pertesto” (pertext) using instances taken from graphic novels. The present paper investigates the textual potential of the pertext, analysing the syntactic textual function that the reader may find in graphic novels like the Italian Rat-Man Collection. Earlier unused pages of the graphic novel are inserted into a single new story and are linked using pertexts, which evidently acquire anaphoric / proleptic functions. The paper offers a scheme into which the nature of the pertext and the nature of the foric relations are put together. The final hypothesis states that pertexts have great potentials, not only as anaphors in general, but also as associative anaphors, perhaps analogous to pronominal ones in human languages.
The present paper approaches problems of textual syntax in non-literary texts, in particular in figurative texts, like comics and graphic novels. The problems analyzed concern a kind of textuality which is mediated through textuality. In a recent paper, A. Manco (2017) introduces a number of technical terms for related concepts that try to assess a metalinguistic vacuum. In so doing he exemplifies in particular the concept of “pertesto” (pertext) using instances taken from graphic novels. The present paper investigates the textual potential of the pertext, analysing the syntactic textual function that the reader may find in graphic novels like the Italian Rat-Man Collection. Earlier unused pages of the graphic novel are inserted into a single new story and are linked using pertexts, which evidently acquire anaphoric / proleptic functions. The paper offers a scheme into which the nature of the pertext and the nature of the foric relations are put together. The final hypothesis states that pertexts have great potentials, not only as anaphors in general, but also as associative anaphors, perhaps analogous to pronominal ones in human languages.
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This chapter is the result of the analysis of some episodes of Black Mirror and shows interesting insights for linguistics in general, for the communicative interaction between man and machine, and for the aesthetic and spiritual aspects... more
This chapter is the result of the analysis of some episodes of Black Mirror and shows interesting insights for linguistics in general, for the communicative interaction between man and machine, and for the aesthetic and spiritual aspects concerning the theme of losing and reconnecting with loved ones. The focus will be on the episode “Be Right Back,” as it is the most representative considering these premises. The ref lection begins by trying to define the type of technology represented in the story, continues with a description of the linguistic interaction between the protagonists, adds some thoughts on the concept of body and textuality, and ends with a thought on the immediate relevance of the theory about the state of contemporary humanity by Luigi Zoja: the ‘death of the neighbour’ (2019). Concluding remarks are made possible by a comparison with Solaris by Andrei Tarkovsky.
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About: research on lexicon, grammar and folklore of Northern Italian dialect communities of Valvestino. Starting from the 1913 paper of Carlo Battisti (Die Mundart von Valvestino), the paper traces briefly a profile of Battisti, his... more
About: research on lexicon, grammar and folklore of Northern Italian dialect communities of Valvestino. Starting from the 1913 paper of Carlo Battisti (Die Mundart von Valvestino), the paper traces briefly a profile of Battisti, his interest in the dialect of the region and his work and collection of linguistic evidence. It introduces also the main line of the research whose aim is to verify how much of the collected lexicon is lost, which lexical fields are more reduced and how archaic forms survive. Topics of methods in field research and of memory are also introduced. The research has a also a popular science purpose and involves actively private citizens.
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Sulla sintassi dei testi rituali antico-ittit
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Il libro riporta le interviste del Prof. James McGilvray, filosofo del linguaggio a Noam Chomsky. Alle interviste si aggiungono diverse appendici di McGilvray. I temi ripercorrono il pensiero di Chomsky sull'origine della facolt\ue0... more
Il libro riporta le interviste del Prof. James McGilvray, filosofo del linguaggio a Noam Chomsky. Alle interviste si aggiungono diverse appendici di McGilvray. I temi ripercorrono il pensiero di Chomsky sull'origine della facolt\ue0 di linguaggio, la sintassi, la semantica, il pensiero, gli sviluppi del pensiero etico e politico di Chomsky, i contatti intelluttuali nella sua lunga carriera, le influenze, la storia della scienza, della gnoseologia e dell'epistemologia. Alla traduzione si accompagnano note aggiuntive del traduttore
The present paper illustrates some of the results of the recent project about Side and the Sidetic inscriptions undertaken by a team of scholars from the universities of Graz and Verona. The project produced a new Gliederung of the... more
The present paper illustrates some of the results of the recent project about Side and the Sidetic inscriptions undertaken by a team of scholars from the universities of Graz and Verona. The project produced a new Gliederung of the inscriptions; a new dating of the East Gate monument; and a thourough review of some texts. The East Gate being the find context of a stone with two monolingual Sidetic inscription is of great importance for the interpretation of the inscriptions. The new results of the archaeological campaings suggest that the stone was relocated on the terrace of the Gate coming from a different original context. So a textual connection with the Gate and its weapon friezes is now a more remote probability. The new Lyrbe stele seems to support a reading /v/ for the Sidetic letter |N24|. The Artemon bilingual is here re-interpreted with two new possible readings
Il testo tratta di un passo ipponatteo, proponendo una emendazione nuova, basata su paralleli linguistici lid
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It's about the various readings of the "Artemon" bilingual Greek-Sidetic inscritpion. With a new interpretatio
This paper briefly presents hypotheses about gender, number and ergativity in Hittite. Terminological problems about ‘gender’ in Hittite will be sketched in the first part. ‘Gender’ is a pertinence only of core arguments and is basically... more
This paper briefly presents hypotheses about gender, number and ergativity in Hittite. Terminological problems about ‘gender’ in Hittite will be sketched in the first part. ‘Gender’ is a pertinence only of core arguments and is basically visible in the contrast between a class of NPs treated with an accusative system and a defective class of NPs resulting in an ergative system (but without an ergative case). Finally the paper puts forward the hypothesis that the reason for the split in the system is to be searched in features that characterize lexical and grammatical morphemes involved in the constitution of NPs. The distribuiton of these features (basically connected to a pluralizer function pl* and a quantificational filter num) might be responsible for resorting to \-nt-\ derived nominals. KEYWORDS: Hittite, IE morphosyntax, ergative, ergativity, nominal definitenessThis paper briefly presents hypotheses about gender, number and ergativity in Hittite. Terminological problems abou...
Critical assesment of crucial cases of possible contact between Lydian adn Gree
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In this contribution we discuss the formation of the personal endings of the singular for the category 'middle'. Reading through some of the most widely available handbooks about Proto-Indo-European, it seems evident that the... more
In this contribution we discuss the formation of the personal endings of the singular for the category 'middle'. Reading through some of the most widely available handbooks about Proto-Indo-European, it seems evident that the reconstruction of the historical personal endings of the 'middle' lacks a uniform consensus. The different points of view cover the chronological morphology, the original function and formation during or after the unitary phase of these markers. We try to sketch a clarifying hypothesis confirming a non-uniform chronological reconstruction of the 'middle' which requires a stratified picture of PIE also for the functional values of the category that reaches its full morphology only in the historically attested languages
Si presenta un progetto avviato sul confronto fra i dati raccolti da Carlo Battisti e quelli ancora riscontrabili nelle zone di indagine (Val Vestino, BS
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Si considera la storia della ricerca sceintifica su supposti fenomeni di ergativit\ue0 nella lingua ittit
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A corpus of ancient texts can be defined as a set of historical artifacts: we can actually say it is a conventional mapping of historical artifacts into a set, thus, in a sense, it is an “artifact” in itself. The original item(s) of such... more
A corpus of ancient texts can be defined as a set of historical artifacts: we can actually say it is a conventional mapping of historical artifacts into a set, thus, in a sense, it is an “artifact” in itself. The original item(s) of such a set are written texts that are preserved by a direct2 or indirect tradition: not every element in it is usually well preserved or perfectly survived. Some elements may be damaged (as indeed we know there’s normally a large amount of them) so we must cope with a potentially infinite number of mistakes and misprintings (both ancient and modern). A digital version of a corpus of ancient texts should be defined as a set of digital information being isomorphic to the original corpus and satising the need for authenticity. Digital information are character data (CDATA) or other Objects, like images or other multi-media files, able to represent the nota and the ignota . We believe that what is known is as important as what is unknown for the constitutio...
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Viene presentata una concordanza critica delle varie interpretazioni offerte per l'alfabeto sidetico
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The present paper approaches problem of textual syntax in non-literary texts, in particular in figurative texts, like comics and graphic novels. The problems analyzed concern a kind of textuality which is mediated through textuality. In a... more
The present paper approaches problem of textual syntax in non-literary texts, in particular in figurative texts, like comics and graphic novels. The problems analyzed concern a kind of textuality which is mediated through textuality. In a recent paper, A. Manco (2017) introduces a number of technical terms for related concepts that try to assess a metalinguistic vacuum. In so doing he exemplifies in particular the concept of \u201cpertesto\u201d (pertext) using instances taken from graphic novels. The present paper investigates the textual potential of the pertext, analysing the syntactic textual function that the reader may find in graphic novels like the Italian Rat-Man Collection. Earlier unused pages of the graphic novel are inserted into a single new story and are linked using pertexts, which evidently acquire anaphoric / proleptic functions. The paper offers a scheme into which the nature of the pertext and the nature of the foric relations are put together. The final hypothesis states that pertexts have great potentials, not only as anaphors in general, but also as associative anaphors, perphaps analogous to pronominal ones in hunan languages
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studio sulle relazioni concettuali fra i termini grafema, carattere, lettera, in riferimento alla grammatologia classica e al sitema di codifica UNICODE. Disamina della classificazione dei sistemi di scrittura in UNICODE. Differenza fra... more
studio sulle relazioni concettuali fra i termini grafema, carattere, lettera, in riferimento alla grammatologia classica e al sitema di codifica UNICODE. Disamina della classificazione dei sistemi di scrittura in UNICODE. Differenza fra sistemi di scrittura e sistemi notazional
Research Interests: Computer Science, Languages and Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Art, Semitic languages, and 15 moreHittitology, Comparative Semitic Linguistics, Grammatology, Comparative Linguistics, Anatolian Languages, Hittite, Luwian, Sabellic languages, Italic Languages, Cuneiform, Graphemics, Character, Graphemics Grafematica Grafema Grapheme Written Language Scrittura Lettura Writing Reading Spelling Ortografia Orthography Iconicity Alphabet Alfabeto, Scripting Language, and Scrittura
Recensione au volume che indaga problemi attuali tecnici e teorici relativi al mutmento linguistico in ottica diacronic
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Ἀλεξάνδρεια - Alessandria. Rivista di glottologia 12 (2018) [2019], pp. 241–264. Brief abstract. Essay on the logos of Side in Arrianus, Anabasis. The legomenon reported in Arrianus is studied and discussed in connection with two factors:... more
Ἀλεξάνδρεια - Alessandria. Rivista di glottologia 12 (2018) [2019], pp. 241–264. Brief abstract. Essay on the logos of Side in Arrianus, Anabasis. The legomenon reported in Arrianus is studied and discussed in connection with two factors: on the one hand the correct value of the term "phoné" and, on the other, the invention of the Sidetic alphabet, for which an identity value becomes increasingly evident.
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Si analizza la polifunzionalit\ue0 della particella ittita -za- alla luce della teoria della scalarit\ue0 delle categorie noetiche e della grammatica generativ
The present work compares the verbal endings of the singular of some ancient I.E. languages showing how they point to a concatenative - agglutinative type. It is furthermore suggested that the original PIE morpheme of the third person... more
The present work compares the verbal endings of the singular of some ancient I.E. languages showing how they point to a concatenative - agglutinative type. It is furthermore suggested that the original PIE morpheme of the third person singular of the series of endings developing into middle and perfect is to be reconstructed as *-h1.
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This chapter proposed by Alfredo Rizza deals with communicative interactions between human and machine, albeit by considering the aesthetic and spiritual aspects of losing and reconnecting with loved ones. In particular, his chapter... more
This chapter proposed by Alfredo Rizza deals with communicative interactions between human and machine, albeit by considering the aesthetic and spiritual aspects of losing and reconnecting with loved ones. In particular, his chapter focuses on the episode “Be Right Back” and establishes, through the lens of Luigi Zoja's theory of the 'death of the neighbor' (2019), a comparison between that Black Mirror episode and Solaris (1972) by Andrei Tarkovsky. Through this comparison, the technology imagined in “Be Right Back” allows for the analysis of contemporary social media as phatic systems. As noted by Rizza, “Be Right Back” imagines that the technological reproduction of a deceased person works surprisingly well in linguistic-communicative terms, but only to the point when the deceased is actually reproduced in a material body, a 'body' whose behaviors show characteristics that recall certain kinds of textuality. The episode reveals that the bodily reproduction of the deceased does not show fundamental human features such as free will, rationality, or compassion.
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Research Interests: Engineering, Languages and Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Anatolian Studies, Historical Syntax, and 14 moreSyntax, Comparative Linguistics, Anatolian Languages, Hittite, Plural quantification, Linguistics, Morphology and Syntax, Ergativity, Syntactic Alignment, Hittites, Hittite language and culture, Split Ergativity, Syntax Semantics Interface, and Morpheme
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Starting from the analysis of constructions employed to express the category of reflexive in Hittite, encoded both by the verbal ending set of the middle and by the pronominal marker -za with both active and middle verbal forms, we... more
Starting from the analysis of constructions employed to express the category of reflexive in Hittite, encoded both by the verbal ending set of the middle and by the pronominal marker -za with both active and middle verbal forms, we present a typological parallelism with the Baltic languages that has consistently developed, from a pronominal, a verbal strategy to mark reflexivity. It is also shown that a development regarding the ways of encoding reflexivity involve other Indo-European languages as well. The Anatolian languages attest the reflexes of the original set of endings referring to the semantic categories of Reflexive, Middle and “Resultative”, while the other Indo-European languages attest an innovated “mixed morphology” for the category of Middle and Reflexive as opposed to the proper endings of the historical perfect. Within such a theoretical framework, the development of alternative strategies, using pronominal devices or particles, aims to disambiguate a wide polysemou...
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... 19 Wilhelm (1997: 283). Page 60. 60 Alfredo Rizza 3. Il testo Svolti questi brevi preliminari di presentazione del testo nel suo com-plesso, vediamo il brano che qui viene portato come particolare esem-pio delle problematiche di... more
... 19 Wilhelm (1997: 283). Page 60. 60 Alfredo Rizza 3. Il testo Svolti questi brevi preliminari di presentazione del testo nel suo com-plesso, vediamo il brano che qui viene portato come particolare esem-pio delle problematiche di traduzione in eteo dal hurrico. ...
The toponym Tabal was used by the Iron Age Assyrians to refer to a group of Luwian kingdoms and principalities that occupied Cappadocia during the first centuries of the Iron Age. The name itself was not used by the Luwians and it is... more
The toponym Tabal was used by the Iron Age Assyrians to refer to a group of Luwian kingdoms and principalities that occupied Cappadocia during the first centuries of the Iron Age. The name itself was not used by the Luwians and it is debated whether or not it was continued in later traditions, such as the Biblical one. It thus seems to be a specific exonym reflecting an Assyrian (and possibly Canaanite) point of view. Nevertheless, an Assyrian etymology has been recently criticized, and few alternative analyses, including a Luwian and a Hurrian one, have been suggested. Admittedly, however, all of these hypotheses present formal and historical unsolved problems. In this paper we will (1) review the reasons why a Hurrian and a Luwian derivation do not hold water; (2) examine the real semantics of the Semitic root *’BL as it appears in Akkadian tābalu and nābalu; (3) propose an alternative analysis based on the linguistic profile and history of the cultures of Mesopotamia and Syro-Ana...
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Literary texts are genuinely known for being an artistic and inspirational expression of the author’s imagination. Given the current technical facilities of the 21 century and the ongoing need for cutting-edge innovative advertising, the... more
Literary texts are genuinely known for being an artistic and inspirational expression of the author’s imagination. Given the current technical facilities of the 21 century and the ongoing need for cutting-edge innovative advertising, the printed book eventually became a new focus of the marketing industry. This paper puts emphasis on the current usage of literacy for commercial and advertising purposes and on the integration of literacy into brand campaigns.
This book is the first of a new series, ‘LautSchriftSprache / ScriptandSound’, focusing on the field of graphemics (the study of writing systems), in particular historical graphemics. As the traditional view of writing as (merely) a way... more
This book is the first of a new series, ‘LautSchriftSprache / ScriptandSound’, focusing on the field of graphemics (the study of writing systems), in particular historical graphemics. As the traditional view of writing as (merely) a way of representing speech has given way to a more nuanced understanding of writing as a different, rather than secondary, means of communication,1 graphemics has become an increasingly popular field; it is also necessarily an interdisciplinary field, since it incorporates the study not only of written texts’ linguistic features, but also broader aspects such as their visual features, material supports, and contexts of production and reading. A series dedicated to the study of graphemics across multiple academic disciplines is therefore a very welcome development.
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ed. or. The science of language. Interviews with James McGilvray
ed. or. The science of language. Interviews with James McGilvray