This chapter examines George Amira’s Grammatica syriaca (Rome, 1596) in the framework of sixteenth-century humanistic studies and the development of Oriental Studies within the Republic of Letters. By investigating the grammar’s multiple sources and models, both in earlier Western studies on Oriental languages and in the Syriac grammatical heritage, this study aims at revealing the pathway through which the first Maronite grammarian constructed a Syriac linguistic identity in the eyes of his European readers. A detailed analysis of Amira’s Western antecedents, the didactic models available to him, as well as the Syriac manuscript sources that he used in the preparation of his grammar outlines a conscious process of selection and combination of elements from different linguistic traditions.
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Titolo del capitolo
Transfert, sélection, redéfinition: la grammaire de Georges Amira (1596) comme lieu de construction d’une identité linguistique syriaco-latine
Autori
Margherita Farina
Lingua
French
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0646-4.11
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Anno di pubblicazione
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
Cristiani orientali e Repubblica delle Lettere (XVI-XVIII sec.) / Chrétiens orientaux et République des Lettres (16e-18e s.) / Östliche Christen und die Gelehrtenrepublik (16.-18. Jh.)
Curatori
Marcello Garzaniti, Vassa Kontouma, Vasilios N. Makrides
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Numero di pagine
510
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0646-4
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979-12-215-0645-7
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979-12-215-0646-4
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979-12-215-0647-1
Collana
Europe in between. Histories, cultures and languages from Central Europe to the Eurasian Steppes
ISSN della collana
2975-0318
e-ISSN della collana
2975-0326