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Understanding Grammars through Diachronic Change
(Frontiers Media, 2017-07-31)
In this paper, I will vindicate the importance of syntactic change for the study of synchronic stages of natural languages, according to the following outline. First, I will analyze the relationship between the diachrony ...
About the limits of metalanguage: An essay on the modelisation of Latin grammatical lexicography
(Universitatea din Craiova, Facultatea de Litere, Centrul de Cercetare în Onomastica si Lexilologie, 2011)
[EN] Progress in methodology in specific fields is usually very closely linked to
the technological progress in other areas of knowledge. This justifies the fact that
lexicographical techniques have had to wait for the ...
Etymological notes on Aleut (III). With methodological notes on (Eskimo-Aleut) historical linguistics
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitateko Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2011)
[EN] The goal of this contribution is twofold: on the one hand, to review two relatively recent contributions in the field of Eskimo-Aleut historical linguistics in which it is proposed that Eskimo-Aleut languages are ...
Euripides’ Critique of Athletics in Autolykus, fr. 282 N2
(Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. Institut für Alte Geschichte und Alterkumskunde; Weidmannsche Verlagsbuchhandlung GmbH, 2010)
[ES] Son numerosos los testimonios, tanto en la literatura como en el arte, que dan cuenta del importante papel que el tema del deporte tuvo en la Antigüedad. Aunque la mayor parte de ellos ofrecen una imagen positiva de ...
Basque legacy in the New World: on the surnames of Latin American presidents
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitateko Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2011)
[EN] In this article we explain the etymology of the surnames of Basque origin that some presidents of Latin American countries have or have had in the past. These family names were created in the language called Euskara, ...
Sophocles’ Ajax and its double agon in light of some intertextual relations
(Franz Steiner Verlag, 2018-12)
It has been said that Sophocles’ Ajax lacks unity, and that its conclusion loses part of its tragic effect. This paper examines the tragedy’s structure and the associated innovations introduced by Sophocles, focusing ...
The rhetoric of weapons in Euripides’ Heracles. Bow versus spear
(Brill, 2020)
Euripides’ Heracles includes an agon scene between Lycus and Amphitryon in which great prominence is attached to the value of the bow as opposed to that of the spear. According to some scholars, this debate about the weapons ...
Roman Voting Tribes, Citizenship, and Epigraphic Habit: The Case Study of Hispania Citerior
(Brill, 2023-10-25)
This paper analyses the epigraphic evidence from Hispania Citerior that mentions Roman voting tribe and its connection to the epigraphic habit. Provincial elites used it in their public self-representation in different ...
On Partial Null Subject languages: Why pro-drop in Brazilian Portuguese and Russian became similar but not identical
(Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2022-12-01)
In this paper, I claim that a parametric view on change in pro-drop does not contradict the fact that not all the Partial Null Subject (PNS) languages display identical properties. I show that the contingent nature of ...
Defective pronouns in the history of Russian: null subjects and object clitics
(University of Nova Gorica, 2023-12-24)
In this paper, I present a unified account for the change in referential null subjects and accusative clitics in Russian. Clitics and null subjects are minimal defective pronouns. In Old Russian, long verb movement was the ...