| Description |
1 online resource (x, 483 pages) |
| Contents |
Approaching bilingualism in corpus languages / D.R. Langslow -- Dead or alive? The status of the standard language / Kees Versteegh -- Graeco-Romans and Graeco-Latin : a terminological framework for cases of bilingualism / Frédérique Biville -- Bilingualism at Delos / J.N. Adams -- Bilingualism in Cicero? : the evidence of code-switching / Simon Swain -- From contact to mixture : bilingual inscriptions from Italy / Martti Leiwo -- Interference or translationese? : some patterns in Lycian-Greek bilingualism / Ian Rutherford -- Bilingualism in Roman Egypt / Penelope Fewster -- Interactions between Greek and Phyrgian under the Roman Empire / Claude Brixhe -- Res Gestae Divi Saporis : Greek and Middle Iranian in a document of Sasanian anti-Roman propaganda / Zeev Rubin -- Bilingualism and diglossia in Late Antique Syria and Mesopotamia / David G.K. Taylor -- Aspects of bilingualism in the history of the Greek language / Mark Janse -- Assessing Latin-Gothic interaction / Philip Burton -- Latin-Frankish bilingualism in sixth-century Gaul : the Latin of Clovis / Pierre Flobert |
| Summary |
Focusing on written texts, this book provides an introduction to the evidence of bilingualism in the ancient Mediterranean world. Language contact intruded into virtually every aspect of ancient life, including literature, philosophy, law, medicine, provincial administration, army, magic and trade, and topics which have been fashionable in sociolinguistics for some time have now begun to attract the attention of scholars working in Graeco-Roman studies. The fifteen chapters in this collection cover theoretical and methodological issues and key aspects of the contact between Latin and Greek and among Latin, Greek, and other languages |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-476) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Bilingualism -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 1500
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Latin language -- Social aspects
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Greek language -- Social aspects
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Languages in contact -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 1500
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Bilingualism.
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Greek language -- Social aspects.
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Languages in contact.
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Latin language -- Social aspects.
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Philology & Linguistics.
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Languages & Literatures.
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Mediterranean Region.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Adams, J. N. (James Noel)
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Janse, Mark, 1959-
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Swain, Simon
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| ISBN |
9780191715129 |
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0191715123 |
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