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Dei Genitrix: A Generative Grammar for Traditional Litanies Galofaro, Francesco Kubas, Magdalena Maria Litany generative grammar computational narratology digital humanities semiotics The object of the present paper is a study of two traditional litanies, Litany of the Saints and Litany of Loreto, in their most ancient attested form. We will design a narrative grammar to show how their litanic structures can be generated. We propose the notion of n-selection, a narrative rule which can't be reduced to syntax or semantics: it depends on culture. We will test the grammar on the Litany to the Divine Mercy, written by Saint Faustina Kowalska in the XXth century. Our purpose is to identify the rules of the genre which allow its reproduction in more recent versions. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik Francesco Galofaro and Magdalena Maria Kubas 2016 Is Part Of OASIcs, Volume 53, 7th Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN 2016) InProceedings Text doc-type:ResearchArticle publishedVersion application/pdf doi:10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2016.12 urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-67135 https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2016.12 eng https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode