Matteo Tarsi
List of John Benjamins publications in which Matteo Tarsi is involved.
Journal
ISSN 0108-8416 | E‑ISSN 2212‑9715
2023 Linguistic terminology in Swedish and Danish with comparison of Icelandic NOWELE 76:1, pp. 23–59 | Article
This article examines the acquisition of Swedish and Danish linguistic terminology. Onomasiological in nature, the data gathering for these two languages follows that carried out for Icelandic in an earlier study (Tarsi 2022a). The analytical model used builds on that employed in Tarsi (2022b),… read more
2022 Grammatical core terminology in Icelandic: An onomasiological study NOWELE 75:2, pp. 123–159 | Article
The article addresses a selection of meanings fundamental to linguistic discourse in Icelandic. Their diverse lexical manifestations were collected from twenty-four works, produced during eight centuries: from the First Grammatical Treatise (1130–1140) to Alexander Jóhannesson’s Frumnorræn… read more
2019 Lat. scrībere in Germanic NOWELE 72:1, pp. 42–59 | Article
The present article deals with the reflexes of Lat. scrībere in Germanic. It is proposed that the word was borrowed into Germanic at quite an early stage (1st century AD) as a result of contacts between West-Germanic-speaking populations and the Romans. Special stress is put on the importance of… read more
2018 Two Short Essays by Árni Magnússon on the Origins of the Icelandic Language Historiographia Linguistica 45:1/2, pp. 71–98 | Article
This article presents two essays by the renowned Icelandic manuscript collector Árni Magnússon (1663‒1730): De gothicæ lingvæ nomine [On the expression ‘the Gothic language’] and Annotationes aliqvot de lingvis et migrationibus gentium septentrionalium [Some notes on the languages and migrations… read more