Lingue Indoeuropee

The theory of Indo-European has been accepted for centuries as the basis of numerous European and Asian languages. However, new historical and archaeological evidence suggests that this theory may have been a construct developed to explain linguistic similarities between populations that, in reality, share a common origin: the Sardinian-Corsican geological block, part of the ancient emerged land of Atlantis. This paper explores the possibility that the languages called Indo-European actually derive from the dialects of the Sea Peoples, who migrated from the lands of Atlantis before and after the semi-submersion of the Sardinian-Corsican block, and that these languages were subsequently exported to Europe and along the Mediterranean coasts by the proto-Nuragic and post-Atlantean peoples.

The IE languages developed different strategies for the encoding of the passive function. In some language branches, the middle voice extended to the passive function to varying extents. In addition, dedicated derivational formations arose in a number of languages, such as the Greek -ē-/-thē-aorist and the Indo-Aryan -ya-presents. Periphrastic formations involving a verbal adjective or a participle are also widely attested, and played an important role in the building of the passive paradigm in e.g. Romance and Germanic languages. As the periphrastic passive is also attested in Hittite alongside passive use of the middle, both strategies seem to be equally ancient. Some minor strategies include lexical passives and the extensive lability of verbs. A survey of possible strategies provides evidence for the rise of a disparate number of morphemes and constructions, and for their ongoing incorporation into the inflectional paradigms (paradigmaticization) of given languages, thus adding ...

The IE languages developed different strategies for the encoding of the passive function. In some language branches, the middle voice extended to the passive function to varying extents. In addition, dedicated derivational formations arose in a number of languages, such as the Greek-ē-/-thē-aorist and the Indo-Aryan-ya-presents. Periphrastic formations involving a verbal adjective or a participle are also widely attested, and played an important role in the building of the passive paradigm in e.g. Romance and Germanic languages. As the periphrastic passive is also attested in Hittite alongside passive use of the middle, both strategies seem to be equally ancient. Some minor strategies include lexical passives and the extensive lability of verbs. A survey of possible strategies provides evidence for the rise of a disparate number of morphemes and constructions, and for their ongoing incorporation into the inflectional paradigms (paradigmaticization) of given languages, thus adding to our knowledge about cross-linguistic sources of passive morphology and grammaticalization processes involved.

A livello mondiale le scuole ereditarie rappresentano una componente sempre più significativa della formazione e crescita personale delle seconde e terze generazioni di comunità migranti. Un corpo di ricerche vasto e in rapida crescita, prevalentemente concentrato sull’indagine di istituzioni ereditarie in paesi con una lunga tradizione di immigrazione come gli Stati Uniti, il Canada, l’Australia e il Regno Unito, ha esplorato obiettivi, pratiche educative, impatto sulla formulazione dell’identità dei frequentanti e rapporti con le comunità minoritarie di queste attività formative complementari. Mancano quasi completamente studi sulle scuole ereditarie presenti in Italia, sebbene esse costituiscano una realtà ormai significativa e in continua crescita nel paese. Questo articolo si propone di colmare almeno parzialmente questa lacuna. Dopo una panoramica della storia, obiettivi e tipologie delle scuole ereditarie, si prendono in considerazione le istituzioni ereditarie presenti in Italia, in
particolare le scuole ereditarie ucraine, espressione della quinta comunità migrante in ordine di grandezza presente sul territorio italiano.

In un saggio di Giovanni Ieropoli la rassegna delle nuove conferme alla rivoluzionaria tesi delle origini semitiche delle lingue indoeuropee, elaborata da Giovanni Semerano, il glottologo scomparso nel 2005 che tanto scandalo ha provocato nella linguistica ufficiale.