Javier Uría
Javier Uría Varela is currently full professor at the University of Zaragoza (Spain). Formerly B.A. (1989) and PhD (1995) at the University of Oviedo (Spain), and postdoc Leverhulme Fellow (2000-2001) at the University of Wales, Swansea (UK). He works mainly on the history of linguistics in antiquity, and is particularly interested in the late Latin grammarians (especially Charisius) and fragmentary Latin grammarians.
Supervisors: José Luis Moralejo Álvarez and Joan Booth
Supervisors: José Luis Moralejo Álvarez and Joan Booth
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terminology, by focusing in the lexicon of ancient Latin grammar. By starting from two basic distinctions, namely those of metalanguage vs. grammatical terminology and meaning vs. reference, we raise issues such as: 1) the problems for establishing a corpus which implies different levels of technical density; 2) the identification of technical concepts and their adscription to different word-classes; 3) the link of technical vocabulary with common language and its communicative function, which explains apparent shortcomings in terminologies; 4) the contribution of componential analysis to
the census of technical terms; 5) the importance of hyperonymy and hyponymy in the structuring of terminologies; 6) the types of terminological synonyms.
terminology, by focusing in the lexicon of ancient Latin grammar. By starting from two basic distinctions, namely those of metalanguage vs. grammatical terminology and meaning vs. reference, we raise issues such as: 1) the problems for establishing a corpus which implies different levels of technical density; 2) the identification of technical concepts and their adscription to different word-classes; 3) the link of technical vocabulary with common language and its communicative function, which explains apparent shortcomings in terminologies; 4) the contribution of componential analysis to
the census of technical terms; 5) the importance of hyperonymy and hyponymy in the structuring of terminologies; 6) the types of terminological synonyms.
class of grammar" (R. Ferri - A. Zago, "Introduction", p. 13).
the words prototypon and absolutum in ancient Latin grammarians. Both terms are
used to refer to the positive degree of the adjective. It is shown how these terms
have often lost the precise meaning they had in the Greek sources. Still, there are
some passages where the original nuance seems to have been preserved. Some aspects
of the adaptation of Greek terminology to Latin grammar teaching are dealt
with. Proposals for textual emendations are also put forward.