More distantly, Tale related to bestiaries: moralising compendia of animal lore, always with ulte... more More distantly, Tale related to bestiaries: moralising compendia of animal lore, always with ulterior Christian allegory. Widely diffused in West; in Byzantium represented by their antecedent, the Physiologus (Sbordone 1936). Physiologus composed 2nd century, ...
Byzantine music is a cover term for the liturgical music used in the Orthodox Church within the B... more Byzantine music is a cover term for the liturgical music used in the Orthodox Church within the Byzantine Empire and the Churches regarded as continuing that tradition. This music is monophonic (with drone notes), exclusively vocal, and almost entirely sacred: very little secular music of this kind has been preserved, although we know that court ceremonial music in Byzantium was similar to the sacred. Byzantine music is accepted to have originated in the liturgical music of the Levant, and in particular Syriac and Jewish music. The extent of continuity between ancient Greek and Byzantine music is unclear, and an issue subject to emotive responses. The same holds for the extent of continuity between Byzantine music proper and the liturgical music in contemporary use—i.e. to what extent Ottoman influences have displaced the earlier Byzantine foundation of the music.
ABSTRACT Ejetåzv th xrsh toy mesaivniko¥ katvitaliko¥ anaforiko¥ tø/tå/tn åper, prospau√ ntaq na ... more ABSTRACT Ejetåzv th xrsh toy mesaivniko¥ katvitaliko¥ anaforiko¥ tø/tå/tn åper, prospau√ ntaq na aitiologsv ton idiørryumø toy syndyasmø oristiko¥ åruroy me plhuyntik anaforik antvnymºa. Symperaºnv:(1) To anaforikø den antapokrºnetai kau'eayt√ se morf thq ...
The opening scenes of the first branch of the medieval Welsh Mabinogion describe the adventures o... more The opening scenes of the first branch of the medieval Welsh Mabinogion describe the adventures of Pwyll, lord of Dyved, in Annwfn, a Welsh otherworld, in a manner in some respects parallel to the early stages of the Irish Wasting Sickness of Cu Chulainn. But paninsular as they may be, such stories of otherworldly exploits so characteristic of medieval Celtic heroes have their best- known reflections in the Arthurian tradition. From Old French, German and Anglo- Norman audiences to their more modern counterparts, the otherworld, its marvels and its fairy lovers are a markedly Celtic contribution to Western literature. Yet, there appear to be three geographically separate traditions of Celtic otherworlds - one in caves and hills, another in lakes and seas, and a third of faraway islands. Moreover, Welsh and Irish tales do not share a single description for such places: among the various designations - Mag Mell ('Delightful Plain'), Tir fo Thuinn ('Land under the Waves'), Inis Witrin ('Isle of Glass'), etc. - only the Welsh name Annwfn (cf. Middle Welsh dwvyn 'deep, world' 'very'). Consequently, the etymological meaning of Welsh Annwfn is not completely clear.
The Modern Greek cluster vy has three origins: the fortition of w in Vwg > Vvy (auy, eυγ, ηυγ)... more The Modern Greek cluster vy has three origins: the fortition of w in Vwg > Vvy (auy, eυγ, ηυγ); the epenthesis of y in Vν_V contexts (δoυλeυω > δoυλeυγω); and the metathesis of kb > γν (Kp > γβ > βγ). I argue that this metathesis occurred under the influence of the already established other instances of vy. In the Greek spoken in Southern Italy, gw appears instead of νγ. Most recent accounts have argued that this gw is an archaism, reflecting the original kb > yv. Reviewing the diachronic record and the synchronic cognates of gw, I argue for the interpretation of the cluster as the result of Romance influence, and that vy was the original form in Southern Italy as well. This is confirmed by recent developments in the Greek spoken in Corsica.
Proceedings - 4th IEEE International Conference on eScience, eScience 2008, 2008
With new scientific instruments growing exponentially in their capability to generate research da... more With new scientific instruments growing exponentially in their capability to generate research data, new infrastructure needs to be developed and deployed to allow researchers to effectively and securely manage their research data from collection to publication. In particular, researchers need to be able to easily acquire data from instruments, store and manage potentially large quantities of data, easily process the
This paper describes the distribution and typology of Greek Rude Negators: a colloquial, producti... more This paper describes the distribution and typology of Greek Rude Negators: a colloquial, productive class of expressions based on the factive connective pu, whose illocutionary effect is emotive and denegatory, comparable to English Rude Negators (e.g. the hell I will). The semantics of this class, and even whether it denies or affirms its referent, is to a large extent motivated by implicature, and by the strength (appropriateness) of the invective introducing it. Other uses of pu, syntactically ambiguous with the rude negator, are seen to have had a clear effect on its interpretation. The existence of the class challenges the established wisdom that pu is factive: it demonstrates the need to understand the presuppositionality of pu in pragmatic rather than truth-conditional terms. I conclude with some speculation on the origins of the construction.
Abstract Education resources and learning objects are stored and maintained in a multitude of col... more Abstract Education resources and learning objects are stored and maintained in a multitude of collections and repositories. Having multiple, distributed sources makes resource discovery, access and use overly complex for most users. Resource federations provide a ...
More distantly, Tale related to bestiaries: moralising compendia of animal lore, always with ulte... more More distantly, Tale related to bestiaries: moralising compendia of animal lore, always with ulterior Christian allegory. Widely diffused in West; in Byzantium represented by their antecedent, the Physiologus (Sbordone 1936). Physiologus composed 2nd century, ...
Byzantine music is a cover term for the liturgical music used in the Orthodox Church within the B... more Byzantine music is a cover term for the liturgical music used in the Orthodox Church within the Byzantine Empire and the Churches regarded as continuing that tradition. This music is monophonic (with drone notes), exclusively vocal, and almost entirely sacred: very little secular music of this kind has been preserved, although we know that court ceremonial music in Byzantium was similar to the sacred. Byzantine music is accepted to have originated in the liturgical music of the Levant, and in particular Syriac and Jewish music. The extent of continuity between ancient Greek and Byzantine music is unclear, and an issue subject to emotive responses. The same holds for the extent of continuity between Byzantine music proper and the liturgical music in contemporary use—i.e. to what extent Ottoman influences have displaced the earlier Byzantine foundation of the music.
ABSTRACT Ejetåzv th xrsh toy mesaivniko¥ katvitaliko¥ anaforiko¥ tø/tå/tn åper, prospau√ ntaq na ... more ABSTRACT Ejetåzv th xrsh toy mesaivniko¥ katvitaliko¥ anaforiko¥ tø/tå/tn åper, prospau√ ntaq na aitiologsv ton idiørryumø toy syndyasmø oristiko¥ åruroy me plhuyntik anaforik antvnymºa. Symperaºnv:(1) To anaforikø den antapokrºnetai kau'eayt√ se morf thq ...
The opening scenes of the first branch of the medieval Welsh Mabinogion describe the adventures o... more The opening scenes of the first branch of the medieval Welsh Mabinogion describe the adventures of Pwyll, lord of Dyved, in Annwfn, a Welsh otherworld, in a manner in some respects parallel to the early stages of the Irish Wasting Sickness of Cu Chulainn. But paninsular as they may be, such stories of otherworldly exploits so characteristic of medieval Celtic heroes have their best- known reflections in the Arthurian tradition. From Old French, German and Anglo- Norman audiences to their more modern counterparts, the otherworld, its marvels and its fairy lovers are a markedly Celtic contribution to Western literature. Yet, there appear to be three geographically separate traditions of Celtic otherworlds - one in caves and hills, another in lakes and seas, and a third of faraway islands. Moreover, Welsh and Irish tales do not share a single description for such places: among the various designations - Mag Mell ('Delightful Plain'), Tir fo Thuinn ('Land under the Waves'), Inis Witrin ('Isle of Glass'), etc. - only the Welsh name Annwfn (cf. Middle Welsh dwvyn 'deep, world' 'very'). Consequently, the etymological meaning of Welsh Annwfn is not completely clear.
The Modern Greek cluster vy has three origins: the fortition of w in Vwg > Vvy (auy, eυγ, ηυγ)... more The Modern Greek cluster vy has three origins: the fortition of w in Vwg > Vvy (auy, eυγ, ηυγ); the epenthesis of y in Vν_V contexts (δoυλeυω > δoυλeυγω); and the metathesis of kb > γν (Kp > γβ > βγ). I argue that this metathesis occurred under the influence of the already established other instances of vy. In the Greek spoken in Southern Italy, gw appears instead of νγ. Most recent accounts have argued that this gw is an archaism, reflecting the original kb > yv. Reviewing the diachronic record and the synchronic cognates of gw, I argue for the interpretation of the cluster as the result of Romance influence, and that vy was the original form in Southern Italy as well. This is confirmed by recent developments in the Greek spoken in Corsica.
Proceedings - 4th IEEE International Conference on eScience, eScience 2008, 2008
With new scientific instruments growing exponentially in their capability to generate research da... more With new scientific instruments growing exponentially in their capability to generate research data, new infrastructure needs to be developed and deployed to allow researchers to effectively and securely manage their research data from collection to publication. In particular, researchers need to be able to easily acquire data from instruments, store and manage potentially large quantities of data, easily process the
This paper describes the distribution and typology of Greek Rude Negators: a colloquial, producti... more This paper describes the distribution and typology of Greek Rude Negators: a colloquial, productive class of expressions based on the factive connective pu, whose illocutionary effect is emotive and denegatory, comparable to English Rude Negators (e.g. the hell I will). The semantics of this class, and even whether it denies or affirms its referent, is to a large extent motivated by implicature, and by the strength (appropriateness) of the invective introducing it. Other uses of pu, syntactically ambiguous with the rude negator, are seen to have had a clear effect on its interpretation. The existence of the class challenges the established wisdom that pu is factive: it demonstrates the need to understand the presuppositionality of pu in pragmatic rather than truth-conditional terms. I conclude with some speculation on the origins of the construction.
Abstract Education resources and learning objects are stored and maintained in a multitude of col... more Abstract Education resources and learning objects are stored and maintained in a multitude of collections and repositories. Having multiple, distributed sources makes resource discovery, access and use overly complex for most users. Resource federations provide a ...
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