The article discusses the origin of the three Armenian signs of punctuation called shesht, bowt'' and paroyk. The origin of those punctuation signs can be traced to the Greek signs for the so-called accents (acute, grave and circumflex). The link between Armenian and Greek signs is provided by the tonetic value of both and that testifies the during of the knowledge of the ancient prosodic value associated to the so-called Greek accents, in a time (V century) in which they had lost any tonetic value. The ancient Armenian grammarians realized a noteworthy work of transculturation, i.e. of cultural transferring and revitalization of the Greek so-called accents, conserving the ancient tonetic value and adapting the Greek tonetic signs to the representation of some prosodic features of the Armenian sentences.

Un esempio di inculturazione di logonimi : la vicenda di arm. šešt, bowt', paroyk / A. Scala. - In: AION. ANNALI DEL DIPARTIMENTO DI STUDI DEL MONDO CLASSICO E DEL MEDITERRANEO ANTICO. SEZIONE LINGUISTICA. - ISSN 1125-0240. - 27:(2008), pp. 377-387.

Un esempio di inculturazione di logonimi : la vicenda di arm. šešt, bowt', paroyk

A. Scala
2008

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The article discusses the origin of the three Armenian signs of punctuation called shesht, bowt'' and paroyk. The origin of those punctuation signs can be traced to the Greek signs for the so-called accents (acute, grave and circumflex). The link between Armenian and Greek signs is provided by the tonetic value of both and that testifies the during of the knowledge of the ancient prosodic value associated to the so-called Greek accents, in a time (V century) in which they had lost any tonetic value. The ancient Armenian grammarians realized a noteworthy work of transculturation, i.e. of cultural transferring and revitalization of the Greek so-called accents, conserving the ancient tonetic value and adapting the Greek tonetic signs to the representation of some prosodic features of the Armenian sentences.
armeno; metalinguaggio; logonimi
Settore L-LIN/01 - Glottologia e Linguistica
2008
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