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Nato a Madrid nel 1873, terzogenito del re di Spagna Amedeo d'Aosta, Luigi Amedeo, si dedicò fin da giovanissimo alle sue grandi passioni: l'avventura e l'esplorazione. Conclusa l'Accademia navale di Livorno, viaggiò per mare in tutto il mondo e fra il 1897 e il 1899 realizzò le sue prime spedizioni importanti in Alaska, di cui la seconda raggiunse la latitudine Nord più avanzata dell'epoca. Tra il 1903 e il 1905 circumnavigò la terra passando per lo stretto di Magellano, toccando Cina e Australia e tornando per il mar Rosso. Nel 1906, in veste di alpinista, riuscì a raggiungere le cime più alte della catena del Ruwenzori, vicina alle sorgenti del Nilo.
About the author
Peter John Glanville teaches Arabic and Arabic linguistics at the University of Maryland, where he is Director of the Arabic program. He holds a Ph.D. in Arabic Studies from the University of Texas at Austin, and an M.Sc. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on Arabic morphology and syntax, in addition to Arabic language pedagogy.
Summary
This book is an investigation of Arabic derivational morphology that focuses on the relationship between verb meaning and linguistic form. Beginning with the ground form, the book offers a comprehensive analysis of the most common verb patterns of Arabic from a lexical semantic perspective. Peter Glanville explains why verbs with seemingly unrelated meanings share the same phonological shape, and analyses sets of words that contain the same consonantal root to arrive
at a common abstraction. He uses both contemporary and historical data to explore the semantics of reflexivity, symmetry, causation, and repetition, and argues that the verb patterns of Arabic that express these phenomena have come about as the result of grammaticalization and analogical processes
that are common cross-linguistically. The book adopts an approach to morphology in which rule-based derivation has created word patterns and consonantal roots, with the result that in some derivations roots may be extracted from a source word and plugged in to a pattern. It illustrates the semantic relationship between a source word and its derivative, while also offering evidence to support the view of the consonantal root as a morphological object. The volume will be a valuable resource for
advanced undergraduate and graduate students of Arabic language and linguistics who are interested in understanding the verb patterns of Arabic, the derivational relationships between words, and the construction of meaning in the mind. It will also appeal to researchers and students in morphology,
semantics, historical linguistics, and cognitive linguistics.
