Crasis

Abstract: hiatus occasioned by the use of this phrase; any notion of separation will be accidental. One is rather more apt to conclude that Homer tolerated hiatus under certain conditions. And why, after all, should he not? Fortassier nowhere discusses what hiatus is phonologically: he evidently believes that it constitutes a perceptible break in the utterance of a line, but nowhere argues this. In fact, however, hiatus need be nothing of the sort, and instances of crasis, both in Homer and later, tend to indicate that hiatus has quite the opposite effect. Non-elision of vowels is the rule within a word, elision is the rule between words: hiatus thus tends to obscure word divisions. Elision and shortening of final vowels are phenomena of external sentence sandhi, whereas hiatus and preservation of vowel length even before vowels are (to the extent that they occur) phenomena of internal sandhi. One has contraction within the word, crasis between words. In the Homeric hexameter, then, in principle every foot/word begins with a consonant. Fortassier does not treat the question of hiatus linguistically, but instead leaps over linguistics to artistic considerations; his hypothesis is therefore

Abstract: Finance and technology—Fintech, from the crasis of Finance and Technology—are currently present in many everyday activities. Innovation is creating huge opportunities but also new threats, which deserve to be examined and monitored. As already stated by the Financial Stability Board, a global approach is essential, however it needs to be shared with emerging economies. Technology and “Big Data” are changing the shapes of financial industry. Such a revolution pushes operators, investors and regulators towards unexplored territories, so that the legal and economic questions deriving therefrom need to be answered. The Business Science Department has started an interdisciplinary study, whose interesting results will be verified and delved into in the next two years.

Abstract: These notes aim to describe the treatment applied to ancient Greek texts to standardise the forms indicated by accents of enclisis, ellipsis and contraction (crasis), identified and listed in various resources of UNITEX, a software conceived for the lexical and syntactic analysis of texts. All the applications illustrated concern Clemens of Alexandria's Exhortation To The Greeks and show how the developments in computer technology of the Research Project in Greek Lexicology advance towards the conception of a functional tool for analysis and a powerful research engine into the domain of ancient Greek language studies. The project will be fulfilled by the publication of lemmatised concordances. Lexical data supplied by this analysis are stored in an electronic dictionary (now resulting in 280,733 forms, classified under 58,598 entries) and in various linguitic resources.