Artemij Keidan

Artemij Keidan
Sapienza University of Rome | la sapienza · Italian Institute of Oriental Studies ISO

PhD

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Introduction
Since December 2019 I am employed as an Associate Professor of General and Historical Linguistics at Sapienza University of Rome. I teach introductory course in Linguistics and an advanced course in Morphonology. I am doing research on Sanskrit Grammar, Indo-European Linguistics, Morphonology, Russian grammar.
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December 2011 - present
Sapienza University of Rome
Position
  • Ricercatore a tempo indeterminato
Education
November 2001 - May 2005
Sapienza University of Rome
Field of study
  • Historical Linguistics
November 1996 - July 2001
Sapienza University of Rome
Field of study
  • Germanic Philology

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Publications (37)
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Debunking of Gerard Cheshire's presumed "decipherment" of the Voynich manuscript (2nd revision)
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An emendation of Pāṇini' sutra 1.4.23 is suggested on the ground of some theoretical consideration and a comparison with the Middle-Indian data
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The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, the tools of textual criticism as they will be applied to the analysis of Pāṇini's Aṣṭādhyāyī are discussed, and in the process some unproven assumptions, widespread in this field, concerning the alleged perfect textual transmission of the Aṣṭādhyāyī are critically reviewed. Next, some formal criteria ar...
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The absence of a grammatical subject in Pāṇini’s grammar of Sanskrit had been long time accredited by the specialists. However, this claim heavily depended on the fact that there was no common understanding, among Western scholars, on what a subject is. If we adopt Keenan’s approach to subject, then Pāṇini’s kartr, especially in some post-Pāṇinian...
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In this article we deal with the translation and interpretation of the Indian native theory of grammatical case in China and Japan. After a brief sketch of the kāraka/vibhakti system as it is presented in Pāṇini's Aṣṭādhyāyī, the earliest Chinese accounts on this topic are presented. We argue that this refined theoretical achievement of Pāṇini's wa...
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We analyze two Russian nominal constructions, the type "пойти в солдаты" and the type "силой в три медведя", which have been scrutinized by Igor Mel'čuk in two well-known papers from the 1980s. Both constructions are challenging for the classical description of the Russian case agreement system. Mel'čuk's explanation in both cases is based on a rec...
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This paper presents an analysis of Gothic renderings of New Testament Semitisms. NT Greek deviates from the Greek language of the Classical canon in many respects, including morphology, syntax, and lexicon. Some of these deviations are explicable as Semitisms resulting from the substratum interference of the Semitic varieties — Hebrew and Aramaic —...
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The paper tries to give a formal answer to the following question: how did the Indo-European hypothesis become the most successful one in the comparative linguistics. I interpret this "empirical reliability" of the Indo-European as the availability of a high number of roots shared by all the involved languages (or, at least, by the most representat...
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The paper deals with a morpho-syntactic innovation shared by a group of IE languages: the grammaticalisation of the pronominal linkers in verbless relative NPs as markers of nominal dependency. Three goals are pursued: 1) defining a parametrised framework for a unified description of the highly variable outcomes that this pattern has produced in th...
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The present paper deals with the meaning of the grammatical rule prescribed in Pāṇini's sūtra 1.4.34 that belongs to the subsection describing the sampradāna, i.e. the kāraka role corresponding to the recipient of an action.
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The high efficiency of the Indo-European reconstruction is put into correlation with the grammatical typology common to all of the Old Indo-European languages, i.e. the inflexional one. The idea is defended that the agglutinative languages, instead, are less conservative in their lexicon because of the compositionally of their word-formating morpho...
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The notion of phonological neutralization is critically revised.
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In PIE, quality modifiers were expressed by stative verbs and nominal epithets, rather than by special adjectival lexemes. Adjectives did not form a separate lexical class. This made the encoding of the NP constituency less explicit. If we consider what I suggest calling “second-generation IE languages” we can observe a general tendency to create n...
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The last decades are marked with an increasing interest towards the study of isoglosses shared by some branches of the Indo-European language family. As is well-known, next to well-established branches such as Germanic, Greek or Indo-Iranian, there are larger subdivisions within Indo-European, grouping together several branches, in accordance with...
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Questo manuale in due volumi, espressamente destinato a studenti interessati all’analisi delle lingue orientali, sia antiche che moderne, e ai classicisti, introduce il lettore alle principali tematiche della linguistica moderna. In questo primo volume, dopo un’introduzione teorica sugli aspetti filosofici e semiotici del linguaggio nel solco della...
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The paper presents the history of reception of the Codex Argenteus, from its discovery until the first printed edition in 1665, with a special reference to the Gothicism debate. Three aspects are taken into consideration: the idea of the Gothic Bible as a historical antecedent of the Protestant vernacular translations of the Bible; the myth of ling...
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According to the communis opinio, there is no place for the grammatical category of subject in Pāṇini’s grammar of Sanskrit. This is due to the fact that, according to many scholars of Pāṇini, Sanskrit lacks this category in its grammar. However, if we take into consideration a wider view of what Pāṇini’s grammar is and what language it presup- pos...
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The authors make an attempt to comparatively analyse some stances of the Old Indian philosophy of language, exemplified by the Medieval Indian author Jayanta, along with the Western tradition of the analytical philosophy of language, and to highlight the differences as well as the similarities.
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During the evolution from the most ancient Indo-European languages to their daughter languages a common phenomenon developed, either independently or not, in different branches of the IE family: a new marking of the NP modifiers were created. Such creation used a common pattern: a relative phrase headed by a relative or a demonstrative pronoun, had...
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Italian language policies are critically revised.
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Si analizza la teoria sintattica di Pāṇini, grammatico antico indiano, in cui si descrive con impressionante precisione il sistema dei ruoli semantici, ma apparentemente si ignorano le relazioni grammaticali, e in particolare la categoria di soggetto grammaticale. Si dimostra che, partendo da un approccio funzionalista alla definizione di soggetto,...
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Chomsky's idea of the innateness of language is critically revised.
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The paper presents the history of the discovery of Codex Argenteus, the largest and most famous extant Gothic manuscript, found in the abbey of Werden in the mid-16th century. The first quotations and excerpts are surveyed, up to the editio princeps in 1665. The ideology of its early reception is then taken into consideration: Codex Argenteus playe...
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The present paper opens this topical issue on translation techniques by drawing a theoretical basis for the discussion of translational issues in a linguistic perspective. In order to forward an audienceoriented definition of translation, I will describe different forms of linguistic variability, highlighting how they present different difficulties...
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The paper is devoted to the labile verbs in the Middle Indo-Aryan languages. To begin with, the general causes of the diachronic development of lability are taken into consideration. The main such cause is suggested to be the casual diachronic deletion of the valency changing morphemes. In this respect, the valency changing verbal morphology of lat...
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Classical analytical philosophy considers common words as having fixed meanings (the meaning of the word ”dog” is a dog) and indexicals as having shifting meanings (because ”I”, ”you” etc. denote different people in every usage). On the contrary, I claim that, in a functionalist approach, it is more convenient to consider indexicals as fixed, since...
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A new contact-based approach to the study of the Indo-European languages is suggested
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A relative chronology of the syntactic rules within Pāṇini's Aṣṭādhyāyī is suggested on the ground of some very strong theoretical inconsistencies to be found therein
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A semiotic approach to some problems of the translation studies is suggested
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The question of the prototypical possessive construction is discussed on the ground of Japanese and Korean material
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Two approaches to the problem of the deictic/indexical words are taken into analysis: the one explicitly defended by the analytical philosophers (Kripke, Kaplan, Perry) and the one implicitly inferable from Saussure's ideas in general linguistics. A new definition of the deixis is eventually suggested.
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A presentation of the Gothic language and the history of the Gothic studies in Europe from the discovery of the Codex Argenteus up to the present days
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A similarity between Pāṇini's approach to the description of Sanskrit and the Avestan philological diaskeuasis is observed and discussed.
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The influence of the Greek Atticism on Wulfila's Gothic translation of the Greek Bible is hypothesized

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