Francesca Murano
2018- : Associate Professor in Historical and General Linguistics
2010: PhD in Linguistics at University of Florence, Department of Linguistics
My research interests lie in the field of the Historical Linguistics and focus on four related topics.
1) Indo-European languages, especially the languages of ancient Italy, with a focus on the Oscan; in this field, I worked on Sabellic inscriptions, analyzing them from the linguistic, historical, cultural and historiographical perspective. In particular, my book Murano 2013 is an edition of the corpus of Oscan curse tablets.
2) Ancient aggressive magic, especially investigated on the basis of Greek, Latin and Oscan curse tablets.
3) Ferdinand de Saussure and the Geneva School of Linguistics; I worked on the manuscripts concerning the Historical Linguistics and on the edition of unpublished ones.
4) Digital Humanities. I worked on the development of digital tools for the study of ancient texts. In particular, I’m working on the development of CRMtex, an extension of CIDOC CRMcreated to support the study of ancient documents by identifying relevant textual entities and by modelling the scientific process related with the investigation of texts (from inscription to modern manuscripts) on the base of a semiotic analysis (http://www.cidoc-crm.org/crmtex/).
Address: Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia
Università degli Studi di Firenze
Piazza Brunelleschi, 4
50121 Firenze
2010: PhD in Linguistics at University of Florence, Department of Linguistics
My research interests lie in the field of the Historical Linguistics and focus on four related topics.
1) Indo-European languages, especially the languages of ancient Italy, with a focus on the Oscan; in this field, I worked on Sabellic inscriptions, analyzing them from the linguistic, historical, cultural and historiographical perspective. In particular, my book Murano 2013 is an edition of the corpus of Oscan curse tablets.
2) Ancient aggressive magic, especially investigated on the basis of Greek, Latin and Oscan curse tablets.
3) Ferdinand de Saussure and the Geneva School of Linguistics; I worked on the manuscripts concerning the Historical Linguistics and on the edition of unpublished ones.
4) Digital Humanities. I worked on the development of digital tools for the study of ancient texts. In particular, I’m working on the development of CRMtex, an extension of CIDOC CRMcreated to support the study of ancient documents by identifying relevant textual entities and by modelling the scientific process related with the investigation of texts (from inscription to modern manuscripts) on the base of a semiotic analysis (http://www.cidoc-crm.org/crmtex/).
Address: Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia
Università degli Studi di Firenze
Piazza Brunelleschi, 4
50121 Firenze
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Books by Francesca Murano
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The book deals with the notes taken down by Ch. Bally, successor of F. de Saussure and editor of the Cours de linguistique générale, during his attendance at the courses on Greek language held by Saussure at the University of Geneva between 1893 and 1903, and with some notes that Saussure himself wrote for one of these courses.
The book provides a commentary to the courses and contextualizes them within the scientific debate of that time on the various aspects of Greek (but not only) linguistics, giving an account of the state of the art and subsequent developments. A historiographical and documentary path of the development lines of Saussure's thought is also drawn up on individual themes particularly frequent in these courses, through an interpretative framework facilitating the reading of the manuscripts.
Al fine di fornire elementi utili alla comprensione del ruolo che la ricerca etimologica ha avuto all’interno degli studi saussuriani di indoeuropeistica e di linguistica generale, l’analisi del contenuto del corso viene accompagnata dall’esame di altri scritti in cui Saussure fa riferimento all’etimologia.
Papers by Francesca Murano
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The book deals with the notes taken down by Ch. Bally, successor of F. de Saussure and editor of the Cours de linguistique générale, during his attendance at the courses on Greek language held by Saussure at the University of Geneva between 1893 and 1903, and with some notes that Saussure himself wrote for one of these courses.
The book provides a commentary to the courses and contextualizes them within the scientific debate of that time on the various aspects of Greek (but not only) linguistics, giving an account of the state of the art and subsequent developments. A historiographical and documentary path of the development lines of Saussure's thought is also drawn up on individual themes particularly frequent in these courses, through an interpretative framework facilitating the reading of the manuscripts.
Al fine di fornire elementi utili alla comprensione del ruolo che la ricerca etimologica ha avuto all’interno degli studi saussuriani di indoeuropeistica e di linguistica generale, l’analisi del contenuto del corso viene accompagnata dall’esame di altri scritti in cui Saussure fa riferimento all’etimologia.
The new CIDOC extension, CRMtex, developed on the base of a semiotic analysis of this typology of documents, is very responsive to the specific needs of the realted disciplines. Therefore, the model is suitable also for the description of the entities concerning modern manuscripts and provides all the necessary semantic tools for the investigation, the encoding and the integration of all the elements involved with research on this class of documents, including the Saussurian corpus.
The project will investigate the cultures of ancient Italy on the basis of their linguistic documentation, only consisting in epigraphic evidence, by means of computational tools specifically developed for this purpose.
Poster presented at Epigraphy.info Workshop V (Leuven, November 3rd-6th, 2020)