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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.
Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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Rethinking the publication of premodern sources: Petrus Plaoul on the Sentences

open access: yesRIDE, 2015
Jeffrey Witt’s edition of the lectures on Peter Lombard’s Sentences by Peter Plaoul (1353–1415) uses ‘progressive publication’ to make the text public much sooner than has been previously feasible within traditional print models, bringing many long-held ...
Andrew Dunning
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«Dir lo latí en so de romanç» [PDF]

open access: yes, 1989
The author discusses the relationship between the two techniques of Medieval translation, the loss of Latin as the only written model and the creation of a literary language in Vulgar Latin in the 14th and 15th ...
Nadal, Josep M.
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"Utrum figura dictionis sit fallacia in dictione. et quod non videtur". A Taxonomic Puzzle or how Medieval Logicians Came to Account for an Odd Question by an Impossible Answer [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
One of the singularities of Latin exegesis of Aristotle’s Sophistici elenchi, is that it arbitrarily brought together two families of fallacies, the «figure of speech» and the «accident», despite the fact that they are on either side of the divide ...
Gazziero, Leone
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Romance Loans in Middle Dutch and Middle English: Retained or Lost? A Matter of Metre1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Romance words have been borrowed into all medieval West‐Germanic languages. Modern cognates show that the metrical patterns of loans can differ although the Germanic words remain constant: loan words Dutch kolónie, English cólony, German Koloníe compared with Germanic words Dutch wéduwe, English wídow, German Wítwe.
Johanneke Sytsema, Aditi Lahiri
wiley   +1 more source

EDV – Italian Medieval Epigraphy in the Vernacular. Some Editorial Problems Discussed, [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
EDV (Epigraphic Database Vernacular) is a database collecting the vernacular inscriptions produced in Italy from the late Medieval to the Early Modern Age, and is a part of the EAGLE and IDEA projects. The present contribution illustrates the criteria
Cannata, Nadia
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One Voice, Ancient and Resigned [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
While we know, or at least can imagine, what Gower looked like in his old age, it is hard to imagine or hear his voice. And yet, given what we know about his old age and visual impairments, his voice necessarily was important to his old age and ...
Rogers, Will
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The Venetian Vernacular Lexicon in Eleventh‐ and Twelfth‐Century Latin Documents: Insights from the Codice Diplomatico Veneziano

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates the lexicographical potential of Medieval Latin documentation from the Venetian area of the Italo‐Romance domain, highlighting the need for a systematic approach to bridge Latin and vernacular linguistic developments. The project MEDITA – Medieval Latin Documentation and Digital Italo‐Romance Lexicography.
Jacopo Gesiot
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Inter-disciplinarité et trans-nationalisme

open access: yesPerspectives Médiévales, 2016
This article examines the state of research and teaching of medieval French in the current context of the transnational approaches that influence interdisciplinary programs in medieval studies in North America.
Anne-Hélène Miller
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Manilio y Venancio [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
In the first half of the I st century A.D. the Latin poet M. Manilius wrote out a poem on astrology entitled Astronomica. Before the XI th century neither a direct nor and indirect evidence of its survival existed which can be considered really ...
Maranini, Anna
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