Archivio Glottologico Italiano

Il contributo intende sintetizzare alcuni risvolti della storia della linguistica in Italia illustrando i risultati di una ricerca che, servendosi di strumenti statistico–informatici, ha messo a fuoco la trasformazione dei tecnicismi impiegati nell’«Archivio Glottologico Italiano» (AGI) dalle sue origini sino ai giorni nostri: l’avvicendarsi delle principali tematiche e metodologie di ricerca verrà ricostruito induttivamente investigandone i riflessi nel lessico specialistico, la cui mutevole fisionomia è stata catturata
mediante procedure di text data mining e sarà rappresentata avvalendosi di un complesso di dati quantitativi.

Il contributo realizza un confronto, cursorio ma sistematico,
tra «Archivio glottologico italiano» (AGI) e «Lingua nostra» (LN), due
riviste che hanno segnato profondamente la Linguistica italiana e che possono
essere considerate rappresentative, rispettivamente, dell’evoluzione della
Linguistica generale e degli sviluppi della Storia della lingua. Il parallelo viene
tracciato primariamente sul terreno terminologico, con particolare attenzione
per l’intersezione tra parole e storia: affinità e divergenze tra le riviste vengono
interpretate alla luce dei loro profili lessicali.
I dati sui quali la ricerca si fonda provengono da un corpus composto dalle
annate pubblicate sino al 2014: un totale di 4101 articoli e oltre dieci milioni di
parole. L’estensione del campione di riferimento ha richiesto l’adozione di strumenti
statistico-informatici, necessari per dominare una mole di dati altrimenti
soverchia, e ha favorito una prospettiva basata sul distant reading, preziosa in
quanto ha permesso di riconoscere le tendenze generali che governano il rapporto
tra AGI e LN.

In Latin epigraphic sources, a morpheme -e(i)s is sometimes attested as the plural nominative of masculine -o stems. Currently labelled as «irregular», this morpheme is rather a prototypically-structured morphological category, whose members share both formal and semantic features, although at different degrees. The development of this category is here explained in the framework of «lexical connectionism». Finally, an hypothesis is put forward on the origin of this morpheme, which probably arose in a bilingual Oscan/Latin context.

In this paper we examine the opposition in Greek, between eιμι and eρχομαι, with the aim of accounting for middle voice of eρχομαι. It's shown that the middle voice is selected by the presence of a state predicate in the logical structure of eρχομαι. Evidences are given that the Indo-European middle voice and inaccusativity overlap, from a semantic point of view

In the present study a new reading of the Duenos Inscription is proposed which is based primarily on segmenting the second line of the inscription in two autonomous statements and further on the interpretation of the graphic sequence OPETOITE as ope et oite, i.e. "with (productive) property and its 'use'". As for the meaning and function of both vase and text, the words iouesat cosmis uirco and pacari sustain a document in the legal and religious area, as they point particularly to a wedding agreement. The syntactic and lexical patterns exhibited by the 'Duenos'Inscription appear to be consistent with the suggested hypothesis.

In active coding systems, case-marking is semantically grounded, i.e. it marks the opposition between the two semantic macroroles: Actor and Undergoer. In Late Latin, the so-called extended accusative reveals the existence of an active syntactic sub-system. In this paper, I will try to show that the same pattern operates in Early Latin, as reflected by the distribution of two nominal allomorphs.

Apres avoir presente et analyse de maniere critique l'œuvre de l'auteur belge K. Wylin (2000) sur le verbe etrusque, l'A. aborde quelques aspects problematiques du systeme verbal etrusque : •la definition de la fonction des formes en -e, •les formations en -va/enice, •les causatifs en -n(i)(c)e?; l'element -n(i)- et ses applications, •les suffixes participiaux en -as, -anas, -θas -anas; les imperatifs/participes nunθenθ et heχśθ, •les formes en -i-, •le necessitatif -ri et l'indoeuropeen

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that the verbal prefixation modifies the actionality of Latin verbs: unprefixed atelic verbs (facio, molior, etc.) take telic valence when they are prefixed (conficio, emolior, etc.). We shall consider three types of opposition: 1) type molior «I prepare»: emolior «I accomplish». The unprefixed form represents an activity verb; the prefixed form is an accomplishment verb. Both verbs have two arguments. 2) type dormio «I sleep»: obdormio «I fall asleep». The unprefixed form is an activity verb; the prefixed form is an achievement verb. Both verbs have one argument. 3) type laboro «to strive for»: elaboro «to achieve (with effort)». The unprefixed form is an activity verb; the prefixed form is an accomplishment verb (or an achievement verb, depending on the degree of duration of the event the verb denotes). The former has one argument; the latter has two arguments. In the second type, the sole argument (=subject, in nominative case) of the u...

The verbal prefixation in Greek, as well as in Latin, increases the degree of telicity of a given verb and its morphosyntactic reflexes are analogous in both languages, depending on the semantic properties of the verb. It is shown that the proverbs operate on the direct internal argument, the only overt argument which can measure out the event the verb denotes. Then, if a verb has a measuring-out argument, that argument - whether it figures as direct object or subject - shifts, on the continuum of thematic relations, to the prototypical undergoer's pole. When a given verb doesn't have a measuring-out argument, the change of actionality needs an increase in valency: the verb in question takes a direct internal argument. It is also claimed that the categories of applicative and causative are not in opposition, but they occupy different points of the same gradient.

Résumé/Abstract Après avoir présenté et analysé de manière critique l'œuvre de l'auteur belge K. Wylin (2000) sur le verbe étrusque, l'A. aborde quelques aspects problématiques du système verbal étrusque:• la définition de la fonction des formes en-e,• les formations ...