This volume aims to introduce classicists, ancient historians, and other scholars interested in sociolinguistic research to the evidence of bilingualism in the ancient Mediterranean world. The fifteen original essays in this collection, which have been written by well-regarded experts, cover theoretical and methodological issues and key aspects of the contact between Latin and Greek and among Latin, Greek, and other languages.
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This book illustrates the changing character of Latin over 1000 years, through detailed linguistic commentaries on fifty passages. Aimed at students of Latin interested in diachronic change and sociolinguistic variation, and at Latin and Romance historical linguists. It will also interest social and cultural historians and students of Biblical and Christian Latin.
Classical Latin appears to be without regional dialects, yet Latin evolved in little more than a millennium into a variety of different languages (the Romance languages: Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese etc.). Was regional diversity apparent from the earliest times, obscured perhaps by the standardisation of writing, or did some catastrophic event in late antiquity cause the language to vary? These questions have long intrigued Latinists a...
This book, first published in 2007, is a comprehensive examination of regional diversification in Latin from the earliest beginnings to late antiquity.
This is the first book to deal systematically with problems of communication in the Roman world, in which numerous languages apart from Latin and Greek were spoken. Over a dozen languages are considered, and a wide range of cultural, historical and linguistic questions concerning the varying developments in bilingualism addressed.