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Rule-Based Machine Translation for the Italian–Sardinian Language Pair

open access: yes, 2017
This paper describes the process of creation of the first machine translation system from Italian to Sardinian, a Romance language spoken on the island of Sardinia in the Mediterranean.
Adrià Martín-Mor   +3 more
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A corpus-based analysis of the vitality of Sardinian. A comparison with Māori [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Sardinian and Māori are two endangered languages belonging to similar language systems, despite their territorial distance. Both language systems are set on insular settings and shaped by language contact interactions involving local autochthonous ...
Gianni, Onnis
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Sardinian

open access: yes
Sardinian is documented in continuous texts from the 11th century onward, at a historical period when the Republic of Pisa, at that time a maritime power, exerted its influence (linguistic and otherwise) on the island.
Loporcaro, Michele, Putzu, Ignazio
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A Holistic Wellness Prescription for Parkinson's Disease: Evidence‐Based Perspectives and Unmet Needs

open access: yesMovement Disorders Clinical Practice, Volume 13, Issue 3, Page 631-646, March 2026.
Abstract Background In modern medicine the concept of wellness is often accompanied by various misconceptions arising from several factors, including a lack of clear definitions, the commercialization of wellness, and prevailing biases and stereotypes.
Indu Subramanian   +40 more
wiley   +1 more source

Italian dialects and language contact

open access: yesIsogloss
In this short introduction to the Special Issue of Isogloss, dedicated to language contact involving Italian dialects, we show that the study of the non-standard varieties of Italy has a great heuristic potential, which is at least threefold: (i ...
Mario Wild   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Venetian Vernacular Lexicon in Eleventh‐ and Twelfth‐Century Latin Documents: Insights from the Codice Diplomatico Veneziano

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 168-199, March 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Restoring Mediterranean heathlands for declining birds: Initial responses to mosaic cutting and prescribed burning in the Natura 2000 LIFE program

open access: yesJournal of Applied Ecology, Volume 63, Issue 2, February 2026.
Initial responses of open habitat birds indicate that mechanical cutting and burning in heathlands can maintain habitat to support open habitat bird species when applied in a mosaic approach. Vegetation treatments that resemble historic disturbance regimes (spatially and temporally staggered small‐scale interventions) are recommended to regenerate ...
Frederick W. Rainsford   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Contrastive Analysis of Use and Attitudes Towards the Sardinian Language: The Case of University Students from Cagliari and Nuoro

open access: yes, 2023
L'obiettivo di questa tesi è l'analisi contrastiva dell’uso e degli atteggiamenti degli studenti di Cagliari e Nuoro nei confronti della lingua sarda. Tutti gli intervistati sono studenti dell’Università di Cagliari.
Ljevaja, Natali
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Costruzioni a schema fisso in alcune varietà diatopiche d’Italia.

open access: yesLinguistik Online
The paper is devoted to the analysis of partially lexically specified constructions in different diatopic varieties of Italian. These word combinations can be defined as constructions since they are pairings of form and meaning characterized by the ...
Valentina Piunno, Simone Pisano
doaj   +1 more source

Plant conservation in a changing Mediterranean world

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 1, Page 49-72, January 2026.
The Mediterranean is one of five climatic regions on the planet characterised by a prolonged summer drought, exceptional plant diversity and high rates of endemism. We provide a framework to link the ecology of plant species conservation in the context of rapid and extreme climate deregulation to a philosophical typology of temporal attitudes (i.e ...
John D. Thompson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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