Vivarium, Vol. 45, No. 2/3, Special Issue: The Many Roots of Medieval Logic: The Aristotelian and the Non-Aristotelian Traditions (2007), pp. 238-252 (15 pages) The notion of 'symbol' in Eriugena's ...

Abstract: This paper offers a unified approach to Italian spatial prepositions, such as di fronte a 'in front of', verso 'towards', in 'in', dietro a 'behind', and nel mezzo di 'in the middle of'.

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