Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese

Habù e habiù nei volgari veneti antichi: riflessioni su un caso di sovrabbondanza

Davide Bertocci — 2023-09-06

This paper aims at analysing a case of “polymorphism” in Ancient Venetan dialects, that is the free alternation of (h)abù and (h)abiù in the perfect participle of ‘to have’ attested in XIII-XIV texts of Venice, Padua and Verona. I will treat this alternation as an instance of “overabundance” in order to show that it and similar cases largely attested in Venetan varieties do not represent “canonical” irregularity; on the contrary, they are coherent with diachronic trends and well attested comparatively.

-ata nominalisations in Maltese: a language contact perspective

Sandro Caruana — 2023-09-06

The -ata derivational suffix is attested frequently in nominalisations in Italo-Romance languages and its functions related to ‘event/single instance’ nouns have been documented extensively. This affix with these functions is also present in the derivational morphology of Maltese, in which diachronic and synchronic developments of -ata nominalisations reflect the evolutionary paths of this language, characterised by contact. By investigating the etymology of verbal and nominal bases, this research provides a classification of forms which take the -ata suffix in Maltese to refer to events and single instances within them, through derivation involving contact with Italian, English and Sicilian base forms. -ata nominalisations resulting from etymologically Arabic bases will also be included in the classification.

Una nazione, molti tipi di politeness. Il complimento come esempio di pragmatica variazionale in Italia

Marina Castagneto — 2023-09-06

Framed in variational pragmatics, this work aims at comparing the compliment management in three different regional varieties of Italian. In order to fully understand the different facework dynamics in the compliments in Piemonte Orientale, Cancello ed Arnone (Caserta) and among the Sardinian community (Biella), the compliments have been analyzed having recourse to three different models of politeness: Brown and Levinson (1987), the “Face Constituting Theory” (Arundale 2006), Mursy and Wilson’s “Social Contract of Values” (2001).

Su Luigi Heilmann e la linguistica strutturale

Giovanni Gobber — 2023-09-06

This paper aims to describe Luigi Heilmann’s structural point of view. A philologist and linguist, a specialist in Indology, Semitistics, and Romance dialectology, he subscribed to the Prague School functional perspective and put his structural method in continuity with the comparative-historical method. Heilmann was open to scientific dialogue, also from an interdisciplinary perspective which he based on two principles: a generative humanitas and an interpretative structure.

La ricezione della linguistica strutturale in Italia

Giorgio Graffi — 2023-09-06

The reception of structuralism by Italian linguists can be divided into three periods. In the first of them (roughly, from the 1930s to the end of the 1950s), structural linguistics, while by no means ignored, is essentially rejected (with some exceptions, such as G. Contini or L. Heilmann). The second period roughly coincides with the 1960s, when structural linguistics reaches the height of its success, thanks, primarily, to the work of scholars such as T. De Mauro, G. Lepschy and L. Rosiello. The success of structural linguistics in Italy began to decline from the 1970s onwards: various linguists turned to other conceptual frameworks, such as generative grammar. Some possible reasons for this decline are investigated here.

Per l'etimologia e la storia dei bagaudi

Andrea Nuti — 2023-09-06

The most widespread etymology of bagaudae, the name of rebel groups in late Roman Gaul, connects it to Old Irish bág ‘fight’ and to the IE root *bhē/ōgh- (IEW 115). There are, however, phonetic problems. The historical sources and the current historiographic research do not support an original meaning such as ‘fighters’. A morphological and semantic analysis (doubts about a suffix *-aud-, the connotations associated with the term bagaudae, its use in anthroponymy etc.) points to an old dithematic compound meaning ‘collector of goods (to be allotted)’ (cf. IEW 107 *bhag-; 75 *au(dh)-).

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Maria Patrizia Bologna — 2023-09-06

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Edoardo Nardi — 2023-09-06

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Laura Biondi — 2023-09-06

Elenco degli Autori

Redazione ASGM — 2023-09-06