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In:Basilio Brollo’s Dictionarium sinico-latinum (Chinese-Latin dictionary): A critical edition of the manuscript Rinuccini 22 (Biblioteca Mediceo-Laurenziana)
Gabriele Tola
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 134] 2026
► pp. 34–53

Chapter 3
Tracing the metalinguistic markedness of Basilio Brollo’s Dictionarium sinico-latinum

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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Terminological expression encapsulated in categories and subcategories: Methodological premise and categorisation criteria
  • 3.Categories’ analysis and further explanations
    • 1.Onomatopoeias
      • 1.1Onomatopoeias with double romanisation
      • 1.2Onomatopoeias with single romanisation
    • 2.Temporal and measurement expressions
    • 3.Classifiers
    • 4.Verbal voice
    • 5.Metaphors, allegories, and similes
    • 6.Adjectives and pronouns
    • 7.Gender and number
    • 8.Declensional Latin cases
    • 9.Titles, nouns, and nouns’ related terms
    • 10.Conjunctions and prepositions
    • 11.Synonymy and antonymy
    • 12.Specific metalinguistic labels
    • 13.Deep immersion into implicit metalinguistic strategies: Other keywords
  • 4.Conclusions
  • Author queries
  • Notes
  • References
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