This chapter examines George Amira’s Grammatica syriaca (Rome, 1596) in the framework of sixteenth-century humanistic studies and the development of Oriental Studies within the Republic of Letters. By investigating the grammar’s multiple sources and models, both in earlier Western studies on Oriental languages and in the Syriac grammatical heritage, this study aims at revealing the pathway through which the first Maronite grammarian constructed a Syriac linguistic identity in the eyes of his European readers. A detailed analysis of Amira’s Western antecedents, the didactic models available to him, as well as the Syriac manuscript sources that he used in the preparation of his grammar outlines a conscious process of selection and combination of elements from different linguistic traditions.
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Chapter Title
Transfert, sélection, redéfinition: la grammaire de Georges Amira (1596) comme lieu de construction d’une identité linguistique syriaco-latine
Authors
Margherita Farina
Language
French
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0646-4.11
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Publication Year
2024
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Book Title
Cristiani orientali e Repubblica delle Lettere (XVI-XVIII sec.) / Chrétiens orientaux et République des Lettres (16e-18e s.) / Östliche Christen und die Gelehrtenrepublik (16.-18. Jh.)
Editors
Marcello Garzaniti, Vassa Kontouma, Vasilios N. Makrides
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Number of Pages
510
Publication Year
2024
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0646-4
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0645-7
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979-12-215-0646-4
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979-12-215-0647-1
Series Title
Europe in between. Histories, cultures and languages from Central Europe to the Eurasian Steppes
Series ISSN
2975-0318
Series E-ISSN
2975-0326