L'articolo è un breve ricordo della figura di Romano Lazzeroni (1930-2020), focalizzato sulle sue tematiche scientifiche, sul suo metodo intellettuale e sui risultati da lui ottenuti nella lunga e onorata carriera di professore di materie glottologiche.
According to the common opinion, there is no place for the grammatical category of subject in P??ini’s grammar of Sanskrit. This is due to the fact that, according to many scholars of P??ini, Sanskrit lacks this category in its grammar. However, if we take into consideration a wider view of what P??ini’s grammar is and what language it presupposes, we can conclude that speaking of subject becomes more sensible, especially if we take into account some subjecthood features that so far have not been used in this respect.
The present article aims to reconsider in detail the original formulation of Grassmann’s law (GL), proposed by Grassmann (1863), since the main handbooks of Indo-European linguistics often repeat an extremely concise and sometimes incomplete formulation of the phenomenon without going into the details of Grassmann’s original reasoning, from which the definition of the phonetic “law” took its shape.
A major characteristic of the aristocratic attitude—and I would not know how to better de ne the avor that pervades the whole of Abhinavagupta’s work—is the downgrading of all painful e ort, seen as a plebeian feature. The aristocrat intends to show that what inferior people can achieve only at the cost of long and painful exercises is accessible to him promptly and very easily. One of the recur- ring quali cations for Abhinavagupta’s attitude to the spiritual path is precisely absence of e ort, absence of exertion or fatigue, easiness.
The book by Y. Kawamura is critically reviewed.
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