Il manoscritto Saibante-Hamilton 390, Edizione critica diretta da Maria Luisa Meneghetti, coordinamento editoriale di Ro...
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Published in Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie
Published in Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie
This paper studies the graphemes and in a corpus of medieval Latin manuscripts from the 8th to the 12th centuries, containing texts by three Hispanic writers: Isidore of Seville († 636), Braulio of Zaragoza († 651), and Ildefonso of Toledo († 667). The manuscripts written in Hispania are compared with those produced outside the Iberian Peninsula ...
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This article presents a case study on the differential marking of direct objects (DOM) in Balkan Judeo-Spanish, an endangered language (sub)group that still lacks detailed, systematic documentation of its (comparative) morphosyntax. Countering recent claims that the phenomenon is frequently absent in Judeo-Spanish, I demonstrate the robust presence...
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This study describes the development of our thinking and of the analyses that we carried out while preparing the article */'ram‑u/ n.n. ‘branch; set of branches of a tree’ as part of the Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman (DÉRom) project. Throughout our contribution, we will focus our attention on the Romanian and Italian lexical items used to reconst...
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The custom of breaking the table over which an insolvent or fraudulent money changer transacts his business, thereby making his insolvency obvious, was described in medieval times in Italy with the word field of It. rompere(il banco) (recorded since 1392) and Medieval Latin (bancherium) rumpere (c1407). That practice was adopted also in France wher...
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In the cantigas de amor – the main genre adopted by Galician-Portuguese troubadours – the speech uttered by the lyrical voice of the male lover in confessing his love or love-sorrow occasionally appears in alternation with the voice of the lady, who intervenes to offer her response. Our attention here will focus, in the first place, on the composit...
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Since Bosque (1982; 1984a) extrapolated to Spanish grammar the concept of concealed exclamation introduced by Elliot (1971; 1974) and Grimshaw (1979), the analysis of determiner phrases (DPs) such as los libros que le gustan in Ya te imaginas los libros que le gustan and la altura del edificio in Me sorprendió la altura del edificio has not been ho...
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The sermons preached in Valencia by Saint Vincent Ferrer during Lent in the year 1413 are an excellent model of the type of preaching carried out by the Valencian Dominican. This article offers a critical edition of one of these sermons (number XXVI, with the theme “Erat praedicans in synagogis Galilaeae”) accompanied by explanatory notes on its st...
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Delocutives are normally formed from conventional phrases of the same language. However, due to the pervasive presence of Latin in cultivated and religious circles up to the 20th century, French borrowed from that language a small series of delocutives. Regional languages have been no less present as a source of delocutives, at least in the areas w...