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Benedetti, Marina, Logozzo, Felicia, Tronci, Liana, Ablative Absolute in the Vulgate: some remarks on the Gospels, in: A. M. Martín Rodríguez (a cura di), Linguisticae Dissertationes. Current Perspectives on Latin Grammar, Lexicon and Pragmatics. Selected Papers from the 20th International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics , Ediciones Clásicas, Madrid, 2021, 263-278.

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Benedetti, Marina, Ditransitive ‘teach’ and the status of the Theme “argument”(?), «Journal of Greek Linguistics», 20/2, 2020, 153-178.

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This paper offers new insights into the much-debated topic of double accusatives, taking διδάσκειν as a case study. By focussing on the different syntactic and semantic properties of the two accusatives in expressions such as διδάσκω σε σωφροσύνην ‘I teach you moderation’, it is shown that the mere reference to distinct semantic roles (Recipient vs Theme) does not provide a satisfactory account of some crucial properties of these constructions. As emerges from textual evidence, the so-called “Theme” may alternate with an infinitival complement (e.g. διδάσκω σε σωφρονεῖν ‘I teach you (how) to exert moderation’). Both the infinitival and the nominal complements are bound to the object of διδάσκω through a relationship which may be defined by the notion of control. This finding reveals the predicative function performed here by the “Theme”, thus supporting a multi-predicative approach to the double accusative construction of διδάσκειν. This hypothesis has relevance to the analysis of other double accusatives of Ancient Greek, and opens a new path for the analysis of comparable data offered by modern languages. Type a message

Benedetti, Marina, Il grammatico Diomede e lo strano caso dell'ablativus pro nominativo, in: M. Lucia Aliffi, Annamaria Bartolotta, Castrenze Nigrelli (a cura di), Perspectives on Language and Linguistics. Essays in honour of Lucio Melazzo, Palermo University Press, Palermo, 2021, 31-49.

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Benedetti, Marina, Lavarsi le mani in greco antico: riflessivi e oggetti particolari, in: P. Del Puente, F. Guazzelli, L. Molinu, S. Pisano (a cura di), Tra etimologia romanza e dialettologia. Studi in onore di Franco Fanciullo, Edizioni dell’Orso, Alessandria, 2020, 31-39.

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Benedetti, Marina, Una rara coppia: coniunctivus ~ συνζευκτικός, in: Chiusaroli, Francesca (a cura di), Miscellanea di studi in onore di Diego Poli, Il Calamo, Roma, 2021, 111-121.

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this paper discusses the treatment of the subjunctive mood in the bilingual section of Dositheus’ Ars grammatica, focussing on the translation of coniunctivus by a totally unusual Greek form, maybe invented by Dositheus himself, συνζευκτικός. Instead of using the common Greek term, ὑποτακτικός, the grammarian opts for an occasional loan translation, created on the basis of well established “conversion rules” between Greek and Latin. Dositheus’ choice, which has appeared bizarre to modern interpreters, conforms to a school practice which was probably common in the teaching of Latin to Greek students.

Benedetti, Marina, Una rara coppia: coniunctivus ~ συνζευκτικός, in: Chiusaroli, Francesca (a cura di), Miscellanea di studi in onore di Diego Poli, Il Calamo, Roma, 2021, 111-121.

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this paper discusses the treatment of the subjunctive mood in the bilingual section of Dositheus’ Ars grammatica, focussing on the translation of coniunctivus by a totally unusual Greek form, maybe invented by Dositheus himself, συνζευκτικός. Instead of using the common Greek term, ὑποτακτικός, the grammarian opts for an occasional loan translation, created on the basis of well established “conversion rules” between Greek and Latin. Dositheus’ choice, which has appeared bizarre to modern interpreters, conforms to a school practice which was probably common in the teaching of Latin to Greek students.

Bianconi, Michele (ed.), Linguistic and Cultural Interactions between Greece and Anatolia: In Search of the Golden Fleece, Brill, Leiden/Boston, 2021.

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The aim of this book is to provide new insights on the multi-faceted topic of the relationships between ancient Greece and ancient Anatolia before the Classical era. This is a rapidly evolving field of enquiry, thanks to the recent advances in our understanding of the Anatolian languages and the ever-growing availability of primary evidence. The chapters in this volume investigate the question of Graeco-Anatolian contacts from various points of view and with a specifically linguistic and textual focus. The nature of the evidence calls for an interdisciplinary approach, and the contributions presented here range from writing systems to contact linguistics, without excluding the analysis of cultural motifs and religious practices in both literary texts and non-literary evidence. .

Bianconi, Michele, Looking for the Golden Fleece: Where Are We Going?, in: Bianconi, Michele (a cura di), Linguistic and Cultural Interactions between Greece and Anatolia. In Search of the Golden Fleece, Brill, Leiden/Boston, 2021, 1-7.

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Bianconi, Michele, Some thoughts on Anatolian Lexicon in Mycenaean Greek, in: Garnier, Romain (a cura di), Loanwords and Substrata, Institut für Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, 2020, 63-88.

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Cet article présente les résultats d’un nouvel examen de possibles emprunts du grec mycénien aux langues anatoliennes du deuxième millénaire. Nous cherchons à démontrer que seul une approche au cas par cas peut permettre de comprendre les relations linguistiques entre le grec et les langues anatoliennes (en particulier l’hittite et le louvite) avant l’âge classique. L’analyse des traces anatoliennes dans le lexique mycénien témoigne d’un contact qui s’entrevoit dans les textes mycéniens. Ce contact est limité à un domaine sémantique particulier, à savoir celui des noms des objets et des matériaux ; de plus, nous disposons de « mots culturels », qui sont peut-être arrivés en Grèce à partir de l’Anatolie. Le lexique de base n’aurait pas été impacté, toutefois la présence d’anthroponymes anatoliens pourrait indiquer un degré d’intercommunication plus profond, dont les limites restent à définir à la lumière de la spécificité de la documentation (présentant une langue administrative standardisée avec peu ou aucune variation de registre).

Bianconi, Michele, "There and Back Again": A Hundred Years of Graeco-Anatolian Comparative Studies, in: Bianconi, Michele (a cura di), Linguistic and Cultural Interactions between Greece and Anatolia. In Search of the Golden Fleece, Brill, Leiden/Boston, 2021, 8-39.

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This article provides a history of the scholarship on linguistic and cultural contacts between Greece and pre-classical Anatolia. It is aimed both at the expert reader, who will find useful bibliographical references, and to the reader who approaches the topic for the first time.

Bucci, Giulia, Exclamative nominatives and nominatives pro vocatives in Greek and Latin: a possible distinction?, in: Martti Leiwo, Marja Vierros, Sonja Dahlgren (a cura di), Papers on Ancient Greek Linguistics, , 2020, 323-336.

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This paper aims at proposing a possible explanation for the so-called phenomenon of “nominative pro vocative”, namely the use of the nominative case in contexts where the vocative case is required. The hypothesis I examine here relies on the essential distinction between the concepts of neutralization and substitution. I would like to display that the origin of such phenomenon – a proper substitution – is to be found in a specific functional area in which the nominative and the vocative case overlap: the vague boundary between an address and an exclamation, where the distinction between neutralization and substitution is quite fine. The corpus selected for this purpose includes the comedies of Aristophanes, Plautus and Terence, which stand out for the large amount of addresses and exclamations.

Ciancaglini, Claudia A., Kosvennye svidetel’stva ozvončenija drevneiranskogo *-k- v srednepersidskom, in: Keidan, A. (a cura di), Friends, words, tables. Festschrift for the 75th birthday of Anna Polivanova, Interbok, Stockholm, 2020, 417–436.

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Il lavoro analizza la cronologia relativa di alcuni fenomeni di sonorizzazione delle occlusive sorde persiane antiche sulla base della testimonianza offerta dalle tradizioni parallele e dalle continuazioni neopersiane.

Crellin, Robert, Tamponi, Lucia, Vowel quantity and quality in Neo-Punic and Latin inscriptions from Africa and Sardinia, in: Aaron Hornkohl, Geoffrey Khan (a cura di), Studies in Semitic Vocalisation and Reading Traditions, Cambridge, 1-53.

Dahl, Eystein, Tronci, Liana, Voice markers in Septuagint Greek in the light of Hebrew interference: a corpus-based study on the aorist system of the book of Genesis, «Transactions of the Philological Society», 121/2, 2023, 162-202.

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Dardano, Paola, Homeric coventantal terminology and its Near Eastern forerunners, in: Bianconi, Michele (a cura di), Linguistic and Cultural Interactions between Greece and Anatolia. In Search of the Golden Fleece, Brill, Leiden/Boston, 2021, 40-79.

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This article addresses the similarities in covenantal formulations in Mesopotamia, Syro-Palestine, Anatolia, and Greece, which seem to point to a common origin. Some expressions were imported and adapted to new uses: for instance, the locution ὅρκια πιστὰ τέμνειν ‘to cut a solemn covenant’, i.e. ‘to make a pact’, designates the cutting of the victim’s throat. Such a formula, which has to do with the practice of sacrificing an animal at the time of making binding oaths, may be associated with similar formulas used in the Ancient Near East prior to Homer.

Di Giovine, Paolo, Dall'indoeuropeo al germanico tra vecchie e nuove teorie, in: Rosselli Del Turco, Roberto (a cura di), Dall'indoeuropeo al germanico: problemi di linguistica storica, Edizioni dell'Orso s.r.l., 2019, 27-40.

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L'articolo prende in esame tre aspetti che ben illustrano risultati e limiti della ricerca – in due casi tipologica – applicata alle lingue germaniche in prospettiva indoeuropea: la spiegazione della ratio soggiacente alle leggi di Grimm, lo slittamento delle marche morfologiche verso la periferia della forma verbale, il cosiddetto Standard Average European.

Di Giovine, Paolo, Dal verso cantato alla metrica vedica. Considerazioni tipologiche su una questione dibattuta, in: Adamo, Giorgio, Giuriati, Giovanni (a cura di) (a cura di), Verso una musicologia transculturale. Scritti in onore di Francesco Giannattasio, Neoclassica srl, 2020, 225-234.

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Il lavoro, trendo spunto da importanti contributi di F. Giannattasio e G. Banti sul verso cantato somalo, offre un confronto tipologico tra la metrica somala e quella vedica, evidenziando una forte consonanza tra i due sistemi, più forte ancora rispetto a quella con la metrica greca. Il dato è significativo, dal momento che la metrica somala è strettamente connessa con il canto, e questo elemento sembra rafforzare l'ipotesi di un rapporto altrettanto stretto fra metro vedico e accompagnamento musicale..

Giovine, Di, La città di Roma e la lingua albanese. Un rapporto secolare, in: Toscano, Silvia, Nikolaeva, Julija, Buoncristiano, Paola (a cura di) (a cura di), Roma e il mondo. Rim i mir. Scritti in onore di Rita Giuliani, Lithos editrice, 2019, 87-94.

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Il lavoro prende in esame il rapporto secolare tra la lingua albanese e la città di Roma, che inizia nel XVI secolo, con la formazione dei primi scrittori albanesi (sacerdoti, autori di traduzioni di testi sacri e catechismi) e si protrae fino ai giorni nostri.

Di Giovine, P., Tra filosofia e grammatica. Gli studi di Tullio De Mauro sui casi in greco antico, «Bollettino di italianistica», 15, 2019, 92-100.

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The article highlights the contribution of Tullio De Mauro to explain both the original function of accusative in Indo-European and Greek and the meaning of the Greek name of dative, δοτικὴ πτῶσις. Methodology is particularly remarkable, as De Mauro takes advantage of statistical and probabilistic means, a very innovative analysis as to the Sixties of last century. Some of the results attained by De Mauro are still tenable up to now.

Di Giovine, P., Tra redini e briglie. Annotazioni su un tipo dialettale di etimo controverso., in: Del Puente, Patrizia, Guazzelli, Francesca, Molinu, Lucia, Pisano, Simone (a cura di) (a cura di), Tra etimologia romanza e dialettologia. Studi in onore di Franco Fanciullo, Edizioni dell’Orso s.r.l., 2020, 111-119.

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Il lavoro offre un contributo al chiarimento dell'etimo di it. sett. e ladino "brena" 'briglia', evidenziando la difficoltà di una ipotesi che ricostruisca una origine prelatina fondandosi sul fraintendimento del confronto con l'albanese.

Di Giovine, P., Typological and Functional Remarks about Reduplication in Ancient Indo-European Languages, in: Maria Carmela Benvenuto, Jens E. Braarvig, Flavia Pompeo, Adriano V. Rossi, Velizar Sadovski (a cura di), Word formation, grammar and lexicology Contrastive, multilingual and comparative-historical perspectives, baar, 2020, 111-119.

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L'articolo, in lingua inglese, illustra alcuni tratti salienti del raddoppiamento nelle lingue indoeuropee antiche: funzione morfologica e lessicale, concorrenza con altre marche morfologiche e conseguente declino, considerato attraverso l'esempio fornito dalle lingue germaniche antiche.

Keidan, Artemij, Kulikov, Leonid, Lavidas, Nikolaos, Morphosyntactic isoglosses in Indo-European. Special Issue of Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, «Poznan studies in contemporary linguistics», 2020, 373-552.

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Guest-editor of a Special issue focused on the morphological isoglosses in the Indo-European languages.

Keidan, Artemij, Grammatičeskaja tipologija i ėffektivnost' sravnitel'nyx konstrukcij, in: Keidan, Artemij (ed.) (a cura di), Druz'ja, slova, tablicy. Sbornik statej v chest' 75-letija A. K. Polivanovoj. Friends, words, tables. Festschrift for the 75th birthday of Anna Polivanova, Kabinetnyj Učenyj, 2020, 179-208.

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The paper discusses a possible structural explanation of the major efficiency of the Indo-European comparative-genetic hypothesis compared to other similar hypotheses.

Keidan, Artemij, Marking of quality modifiers in 2nd-generation IE languages, «Poznan studies in contemporary linguistics», 56, 2020, 477-527, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515%2Fpsicl-2020-0014.

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In PIE, quality modifiers were expressed by stative verbs and nominal epithets, rather than by special adjectival lexemes. Adjectives did not form a separate lexical class. This made the encoding of the NP constituency less explicit. If we consider what I suggest calling “second-generation IE languages” we can observe a general tendency to create new, more explicit morphological means of dependency marking within a NP. The exact outcomes of this diachronic process vary from one language to another. However, if we parametrise the variation, a common pattern becomes clearly observable. In all the languages analysed in the present paper, there is a pronoun undergoing grammaticalisation as a dependency marker. What varies is 1) the position of this element with respect to the nominal base (pre- vs. post- posed); 2) the degree of agglutination (bound morpheme vs. clitic vs. free morpheme); and 3) the locus of marking (head vs. modifier vs. double or alternant marking); 4) the source morpheme that undergoes grammaticalisation (relative vs. demonstrative pronoun).

KEIDAN, ARTEMIJ, Yūto Kawamura, The kāraka theory embodied in the Rāma story. A Sanskrit textbook in Medieval India, «Journal of south asian languages and linguistics», 6, 2019, 309-319.

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The book by Y. Kawamura is critically reviewed.

Lai, Rosangela, Il Raddoppiamento Fonosintattico in sardo medievale, «Studi e saggi linguistici», 59, 75-117.

Logozzo, Felicia, Tronci, Liana, Les constructions à verbe εἶναι ‘être’ et participe présent: status quaestionis et nouvelles propositions, «Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris», 115/1, 2020, 191-239.

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Mancini, Marco, Lat. issula in Plauto e l'assimilazione del gruppo -ps- nel latino parlato, «Rationes rerum», 16, 2020, 289-319.

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The -ps- > -ss- regressive assimilation is admittedly part of a general weakening drift of syllabic codas in late latin, as in the cases of -kt- > -tt- / -xt-, -ks- > -ss- and so forth. The early Plautinian noun issula “mistress” (< ipsula) in a corrupt passage of Cistellaria (v. 450) is traditionally interpreted as the very first occurrence of this well-known vulgar latin phenomenon (cf. ital. esso, scrisse etc.). After a thorough inspection of all the available evidence, both in the inscriptions and in the literary texts, three points should be underlined. First, on the grounds of relative chronology, such an early occurrence of this assimilation (iii BC) is implausible. Secondly, the overwhelmingly attested late -spellings from -ps- must be traced back to a typical use of the latin scripta, namely the “deletion” (lat. demptio) of the “implosive” letter, see e.g. Quintilian, Inst. 1, 7, 29, on lat. columna. Thirdly, within the outlined context a -spelling is clearly deviant from the overall orthographic norm: it systematically occurs only in the case of lat. isse, issus etc. This leads to a new hypothesis: these forms (and only these) were the result of an early morphological reinterpretation in the light of a diagrammatically iconic pseudo-etymology: ipse → is-se / is-sus (whence is-sa, is-sum). A surprisingly similar reinterpretation is attested in a famous Ciceronian passage on nom. Sing. īdem → isdem (Or. 157).

Mancini, Marco, Quando gli scienziati inventarono una lingua: il pahlavī nella filologia dell’Ottocento, in: Serenella Baggio e Pietro Taravacci (a cura di), Lingue naturali, lingue inventate. Atti della Giornata di studi (Trento, Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia, Palazzo P. Prodi, 29 novembre 2019), Edizioni dell’Orso, Alessandria, 2020, 135–195.

Marotta, Giovanna, CLaSSES: Orthographic variationin non-literary Latin, «Studi e saggi linguistici», 58, 39-65, http://dx.doi.org/10.4454%2Fssl.v58i1.287.

Marotta, Giovanna, Consonanti preaspirate nel toscano: mito o realtà?, in: Del Puente P. et al. (a cura di), Tra etimologia romanza e dialettologia, Alessandria, 297-312.

Marotta, Giovanna, Per una rivalutazione del contatto linguistico in area romanza settentrionale, «Studi mediolatini e volgari», LXVI, 91-114.

Milizia, Paolo, Sullo statuto fonologico del sandhi tonale rigvedico, «Atti del sodalizio glottologico milanese», 14 n.s., 2020, 141-172.

Mollo, Paola, Phoenician-Punic: Features and relations with Hebrew, «Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel», 11/2, 2022, 153-178.

Pieroni, Silvia, Missa: note da una prospettiva morfosintattica, «Medioevo Europeo», 6/2, 2022, 79-91.

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Pompeo, Flavia, Le attestazioni di duruj- nell’iscrizione di Bisotun. Un nuovo caso di Ringkomposition?, «Incontri Linguistici», 44, 2021, 11–25.

Pozza, Marianna, Gasbarra, Valentina, Grassmann's law in Greek and its diffusion in waves, «Phaos», 20, 2020, 1-17.

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The paper aims at discussing the chronology of Grassmann’s law (GL), bearing in mind the possibility, put forward by KIPARSKY (1973), of a backdating of its operativeness. Thanks to the comparison between some “relic” forms and data taken from 2nd millennium Greek, we will try to speculate in relation to the chronology of this phonetic change. In particular, the hypothesis here advanced is that we are dealing with different “waves” of a single phenomenon, whose effects were prolonged over time, surfacing sporadically in time and space.

Pozza, Marianna, Gasbarra, Valentina, Methodological premises for a sociolinguistic analysis of Greek-Anatolian contact, «Rivista degli studi orientali», N.s. XCII, 2019, 11-26, http://dx.doi.org/10.19272%2F201903802001.

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Il contributo intende analizzare alcuni dati lessicali tratti dalla documentazione egeo-anatolica di II millennio a.C., alla luce delle nuove acquisizioni della sociolinguistica storica. Lo studio dei fenomeni di interferenza, analizzati in una prospettiva micro-sociolinguistica, può consentire di ottenere risultati utili nella valutazione del multilinguismo delle società antiche. La situazione linguistica dell'area del Mediterraneo occidentale antico è piuttosto composita, dal momento che risultano coinvolte lingue non sempre genealogicamente collegate tra loro (indoeuropee, semitiche, isolate) che interagiscono talora come lingua modello talora come lingua replica, a seconda delle circostanze. I prestiti lessicali rappresentano dunque l'oggetto privilegiato della ricerca, giacché dimostrano una sorta di interazione "faccia a faccia" nel cui ambito lo scrivente si trovava senz'altro a registrare un fenomeno la cui occorrenza era molto probabilmente già diffusa tra i parlanti.

Pozza, Marianna, Gasbarra, Valentina, Percorsi lessicali nel Mediterraneo orientale antico, Edizioni dell’Orso, Alessandria, 2019.

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Il volume analizza i principali fenomeni di interferenza linguistica sul versante lessicale che si manifestano tra greco, ittito e lingue semitiche (in particolare l’accadico), sia al fine di offrire una panoramica generale sul contatto tra queste lingue, sia per sondare la portata del fenomeno alla luce di un possibile ruolo di mediazione dell’ittito tra le lingue semitiche e il greco miceneo, sorta di trait d’union, dunque, tra mondo indoeuropeo e mondo non indoeuropeo. Le voci oggetto di prestito vengono prese in esame alla luce dei più generali processi di interferenza nei quali si inquadrano (dovuti a ragioni di ordine commerciale, diplomatico, culturale, letterario, religioso), nell’arco cronologico del II e I millennio a.C., e se ne valutano le rese fonologiche e la eventuale produttività a livello morfologico, allo scopo di ricostruire alcune linee di prestito e di appurare i diversi gradi di assimilazione di questi stessi prestiti all’interno del vocabolario della lingua-replica. Oltre ad offrire una panoramica sulle lingue indoeuropee e non indoeuropee dell’Anatolia antica e sul contatto con il mondo miceneo (secondo la nota ipotesi di Aḫḫiyawa), il contatto egeo-anatolico viene trattato anche dal punto di vista dei ritrovamenti archeologici. Un’ampia parte del lavoro è dedicata alla presentazione dei sistemi grafici ittito e miceneo e di alcuni specifici aspetti che presentano problemi interpretativi e richiedono dunque un riesame critico. Le Autrici si propongono di offrire un ulteriore contributo al già vivace dibattito scientifico sull’argomento, che rappresenta un tema su cui si è fortemente focalizzata l’attenzione degli studiosi negli ultimi anni.

Pozza, Marianna, Gasbarra, Valentina, Tra τέχνη e processi mentali. Riflessioni su alcuni dati linguistici ittiti e micenei, «Acta Classica», 63, 2020, 186–204.

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The aim of the present paper is twofold. Through the analysis of some words related to the process of weaving in Mycenaean and Hittite documentation, we have tried to verify the presence of a semantic shift from this ‘practical’ concept towards a metaphorical usage. This ‘semantic reworking’ does not seem to be present in either of those second millennium languages, but it is possible to observe some specific peculiarities. On the one hand, Mycenaean data show some linguistic indications of this metaphorical shift that are also attested in the later Homeric epics. On the other hand, as regards the Anatolian sector (where cases of metaphorical shifts are not clearly documented), the historical outcomes of the principal Indo-European roots connected with the idea of ‘weaving’ – but also ‘connecting’, ‘joining’, ‘assembling’, and ‘mixing’ – will be analyzed, in order to verify to what extent these roots have been preserved in Hittite.

Pozza, Marianna, On the original formulation and on the resonance over time of Grassmann’s Law. Remarks on a still open issue, «Lingua posnaniensis», 61, 2019, 107-130, http://dx.doi.org/10.2478%2Flinpo-2019-0007.

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The present article aims to reconsider in detail the original formulation of Grassmann’s law (GL), proposed by Grassmann (1863), since the main handbooks of Indo-European linguistics often repeat an extremely concise and sometimes incomplete formulation of the phenomenon without going into the details of Grassmann’s original reasoning, from which the definition of the phonetic “law” took its shape. In fact, we intend to highlight, on the one hand, the route whereby the scholar arrived at the decisive formulation of the principle which took its name from him, on the other the research ideas already present in the article of 1863 and only partially taken into account by subsequent studies. In addition to offering an overview, as complete as possible, of the resonance and influence of GL among linguists (both within a general and a historical linguistic perspective), over the years, the intent is to show the fruitfulness of ideas that still today could be used for new studies on the topic and to offer a possible, new interpretation of this phonetic change.

Pozza, Marianna, On the semantics of the Proto-Indo-European roots *mel-, *men-, and *steh2: from the external-positional to the internal-cognitive perspective, «Cuadernos de filologia clasica - estudios griegos e indoeurpoeos», 30, 2020, 11-22, http://dx.doi.org/10.5209%2FCFCG.68473.

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The present discussion, which is articulated within the theoretical framework of cognitive semantics, aims to reconsider the homonymy between the Indo-European roots *men- ‘to think, to have in mind’ and *men- ‘to delay, linger, remain’. We should instead imagine the existence of a single archetype, whose different semantic values represent the developments of a metaphorical shift from a concrete to an abstract meaning, exactly as in the case of the historical products of IE *steh2- ‘to stay’, and *mel- ‘to delay, linger, remain’; ‘to think, take care of’, which convey meanings related to both ‘stasis’ and ‘reflection/knowledge’

Pozza, Marianna, Traces of “crystallized” conceptual metaphors in ancient Indo-European languages. The relationship of language with space and body, «Studii de lingvistica», 10, 2020, 225-241.

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The paper aims at discussing some cases of metaphorical linguistic expressions in some ancient Indo-European languages, in order to show how conceptual metaphors (in the sense of Lakoff and Johnson 1980) “materialize” in certain linguistic expressions through the use of concepts such as spatiality and embodiment. Furthermore, it will be observed that in some circumstances it is possible to imagine, already for the reconstructed linguistic phase, a polysemy of certain Proto-Indo-European (PIE) roots – usually interpreted as homonymic – precisely by virtue of the metaphorical logics mentioned above. The idea of a one-to-one correspondence between form and function of a linguistic sign and that of an intrinsic “naturalness” and “transparency” will also be object of reflections, in the light of the more general linguistic change process.

Romagno, Domenica, L’alternanza fra ὁράω e καθοράω nel mito platonico della caverna: la rappresentazione del vedere nel continuum di transitività, «Inverbis», IX, 319-331, http://dx.doi.org/10.7368%2F96995.

Romagno, Domenica, State representation and dynamic processes in Homeric Greek. The case of the aorist in -ην, in: MICHELA CENNAMO & Claudia Fabrizio (a cura di), Historical Linguistics 2015 – Selected Papers from the 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 272-286, http://dx.doi.org/10.1075%2Fcilt.348.

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In the present paper, we assess the relationship between different Indo-European strategies for encoding the representation of a subject’s state and focus on data from Homeric poems. Specifically, we propose an explanation for the function and the distribution of the aorist in –ην that 1) accounts for its various occurrences within a unitary model, 2) sheds new light on the co-existence of stative and dynamic components in this formation, 3) allows us to solve the supposed aporia whereby a stative marker has been integrated into the aorist system. Moreover, we investigate the relationship between the aorist in –ην and the two major categories that entail a state predicate, that is, the old perfect and the middle voice, in order to clarify their distinctive functions and mutual distribution.

Romagno, Domenica, Strategies for aligning syntactic roles and case marking with semantic properties: The case of the accusative of respect in ancient Greek, in: Bridget Drinka (a cura di), Historical Linguistics 2017 - Selected Papers from the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, TX, USA, July 31-Aug. 4, 2017, Amsterdam - Philadelphia, 9-28, http://dx.doi.org/10.1075%2Fcilt.350.

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In the present paper, we show that: 1. the accusative of respect, a case marker for inalienable possession in ancient Greek, represents a strategy for aligning syntactic roles and case marking with animacy; 2. this hypothesis can consistently account for a series of issues that remained unsettled; 3. the semantic properties of the predicate involved in the accusative of respect are fundamental to defining its function and specifically govern its distribution. Our analysis comprises Greek literary texts, from Homer to the fifth century B.C.

Romagno, Domenica, The curious case of the functional distinction between aorist and imperfect: evidence from Vedic and Homeric Greek, in: Aliffi, M.L., Bartolotta, A. & Nigrelli, C. (a cura di), Perspectives on Language and Linguistics. Essays in honour of Lucio Melazzo (Series: "Hermes. Collana di Scienze del Linguaggio", Palermo University Press), Palermo, 457-502.

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This paper addresses the function and distribution of aorist and imperfect in Vedic and Homeric Greek and shows that: 1. the principle underlying the selection of aorist vs. imperfect is not originally based on an alignment of the telic/atelic distinction with the perfective/ imperfective distinction: rather, the interaction between aspect and actionality in the development of the opposition between aorist and imperfect is consequent to the grammaticalization of characterized presents; 2. the distribution of aorist and imperfect does not consistently encode aspectual distinctions and, specifically, the perfective/ imperfective distinction; 3. the interplay between tense, aspect and actionality in the alternation between aorist and imperfect reveals that the creation of the functional opposition between these two categories is an ongoing process in Rig Vedic and Homeric texts, and indicates that their aspectual functions are not yet grammaticalized in the archaic phase of the Vedic and Greek verb system and, therefore, cannot be attributed to the Indo-European tradition passed on into the Vedic and Greek verb system

Romagno, Domenica, The extension of a linguistic category: middle voice in Homeric Greek between subject affectedness, reflexivity and possession, «Archivio glottologico italiano», 105, -.

Rovai, Francesco, Alcune osservazioni sul nome dei Papirii, in: Del Puente, P., Guazzelli, F., Molinu, L., Pisano, S. (a cura di), Tra etimologia romanza e dialettologia. Studi in onore di Franco Fanciullo, Alessandria, 453-464.

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Il contributo propone un’interpretazione in chiave sociolinguistica della distribuzione delle tre varianti Papirius, Paperius e Papeirius, con particolare riferimento ai criteri di selezione delle forme che, nell’ambito del più ampio processo di elaborazione di una varietà di lingua standard conforme ai principi della latinitas, hanno condotto a obliterare completamente le ultime due varianti in favore della prima, almeno a partire dagli inizi del I secolo a.C.

Rovai, Francesco, Consul tertium o consul tertio? Dubbi metalinguistici, sincretismo e variazione nelle formule di iterazione delle cariche pubbliche, «Studi e saggi linguistici», 58, 33-63.

Rovai, Francesco, Migration, Identity, and Multilingualism in Late Hellenistic Delos, in: James Clackson, Patrick James, Katherine McDonald, Livia Tagliapietra, Nicholas Zair (a cura di), Migration, Mobility and Language Contact in and Around the Ancient Mediterranean, Cambridge, 171-202, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017%2F9781108763943.008.

Rovai, Francesco, On the standardisation of the Latin language and writing in the Late Republic, «Studi classici e orientali», 67, 435-458, http://dx.doi.org/10.12871%2F978883339503620.

Tamponi, Lucia, On back and front vowels in Latin inscriptions from Sardinia, «Acta antiqua academiae scientiarum hungaricae», 59, 71-83.

Tamponi, Lucia, Remarks on vowel deletion in Latin inscriptions from Sardinia, «Acta classica universitatis scientiarum debreceniensis», 57, 35-50.

Tronci, Liana, Le traduzioni latine delle subordinate introdotte da ὅτι: breve saggio sulle ricorrenze nel Vangelo di Matteo, in: L. Unceta Gómez, C. González Vázquez, R. López Gregoris, A. M. Martín Rodríguez (a cura di), Amice benigneque honorem nostrum habes. Estudios lingüísticos en homenaje al profesor Benjamín García-Hernández, UAM Ediciones, Madrid, 2021, 469-484.

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