Mara Nicosia
Biographic Data
| ID | 6518265 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mara Nicosia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mara |
| FAMILY NAME | Nicosia |
| SIGNATURE | NICOSIA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | British Academy |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8736-9158 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Antony of Tagrit and the Progymnasmata
This paper investigates the engagement with Greek progymnasmata exercises shown by the first rhetorical handbook in Syriac: Antony of Tagrit’s On Rhetoric (ninth century). Despite lacking any specific reference to progymnastic authors or texts and having its own peculiarities and foundations, the rhetorical theory presented in Antony’s treatise bears many connections to the progymnasmata, which will be presented here. Moreover, the paper position…
Greek Influences on Syriac and Contact-Induced Changes
This paper reviews and comments upon a recent monograph by Aaron M. Butts on linguistic contacts between Greek and Syriac, Language Change in the Wake of Empire : this volume is also used as an opportunity to discuss the expectations for this kind of studies in the future years, and to reflect upon their past. The importance of Butts’ book as a crucial tool for the scholarly community involved in contact-induced studies is here highlighted. Butts…
Western Neo-Aramaic as an Islamic Language? A Look at Some Lexical and Sociolinguistic Issues
Western Neo-Aramaic ( WNA ) is spoken as a minority language by less than 10.000 people in 3 villages of the Qalamūn plateau, 60 km to the north-east of Damascus (Syria). The whole populace of Baxʕā and Ǧubbʕadīn and about one-third of the inhabitants of Maʕlūla are Muslim, while the rest of the inhabitants of the third village are Christian, as is still a minority of the people of the region, since the parallel processes of religious Islamizatio…
From Antony of Tagrit to the Arabic Version
Article From Antony of Tagrit to the Arabic Version: The Syriac Technical Vocabulary of Rhetoric and the Migration of Words was published on January 1, 2020 in the journal Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies (volume 23, issue 1)
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Western Neo-Aramaic as an Islamic Language? A Look at Some Lexical and Sociolinguistic Issues
Western Neo-Aramaic ( WNA ) is spoken as a minority language by less than 10.000 people in 3 villages of the Qalamūn plateau, 60 km to the north-east of Damascus (Syria). The whole populace of Baxʕā and Ǧubbʕadīn and about one-third of the inhabitants of Maʕlūla are Muslim, while the rest of the inhabitants of the third village are Christian, as is still a minority of the people of the region, since the parallel processes of religious Islamizatio…
From Antony of Tagrit to the Arabic Version
Article From Antony of Tagrit to the Arabic Version: The Syriac Technical Vocabulary of Rhetoric and the Migration of Words was published on January 1, 2020 in the journal Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies (volume 23, issue 1)
Greek Influences on Syriac and Contact-Induced Changes
This paper reviews and comments upon a recent monograph by Aaron M. Butts on linguistic contacts between Greek and Syriac, Language Change in the Wake of Empire : this volume is also used as an opportunity to discuss the expectations for this kind of studies in the future years, and to reflect upon their past. The importance of Butts’ book as a crucial tool for the scholarly community involved in contact-induced studies is here highlighted. Butts…
Antony of Tagrit and the Progymnasmata
This paper investigates the engagement with Greek progymnasmata exercises shown by the first rhetorical handbook in Syriac: Antony of Tagrit’s On Rhetoric (ninth century). Despite lacking any specific reference to progymnastic authors or texts and having its own peculiarities and foundations, the rhetorical theory presented in Antony’s treatise bears many connections to the progymnasmata, which will be presented here. Moreover, the paper position…
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