Edoardo Nardi
List of John Benjamins publications in which Edoardo Nardi is involved.
Articles
2026 The category of preposición in early missionary grammars of Aymara (Bertonio 1603 and Torres Rubio 1616): Between inflection and suffixation Historiographia Linguistica: Online-First Articles | Article
In this contribution, I investigate the conceptual and terminological relation between ‘prepositions’ (preposiciones) and a set of suffixes, mainly case markers, in Bertonio’s (1603) and Torres Rubio’s (1616) Aymara grammars. These morphemes are classified as prepositions or inflectional… read more
2025 The metalinguistic development of the term ‘periphrasis’ in the western grammatical tradition from Antiquity to the Enlightenment Historiographia Linguistica 52:1, pp. 63–101 | Article
In 1993, Hoffmann published a study on the historical development of the term ‘periphrasis’ in grammars, which originally indicated a figure of speech, used for stylistic and rhetorical purposes. To date, Hoffmann’s article remains the only contribution to the question. In this paper, we further… read more
2024 The spread of participial clauses in Biblical Greek: Semitic interference and multilingualism Journal of Historical Linguistics 14:3, pp. 427–471 | Article
In this study, a construction marginally found in Ancient Greek is addressed, namely the participial clause, which is a clause whose main verb is a participle. This construction displays a considerable increase in frequency in Biblical Greek (mainly between the 2nd century bce and the 2nd… read more