A Companion to the Latin Language presents a collection of original essays from international scholars that track the development and use of the Latin language from its origins to its modern day usage. Brings together contributions from...
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A Companion to the Latin Language presents a collection of original essays from international scholars that track the development and use of the Latin language from its origins to its modern day usage. Brings together contributions from internationally renowned classicists, linguists and Latin language specialistsOffers, in a single volume, a detailed account of different literary registers of the Latin languageExplores the social and political contexts of LatinIncludes new accounts of the Latin language in light of modern linguistic theorySupplemented with illustrations covering the developme Sources -- The language -- Latin through time -- Literary registers of Latin -- Latin in social and political contexts.
Front MatterIntroduction / James Clackson -- Sources. The Latin Alphabet and Orthography / Rex Wallace -- Latin Inscriptions and Documents / James Clackson -- Latin Manuscripts and Textual Traditions / Bruce Gibson -- Romance Languages as a Source for Spoken Latin / Roger Wright -- The Language. The Sounds of Latin: Phonology / Matthew McCullagh -- Latin Prosody and Metrics / Benjamin W Fortson -- The Forms of Latin: Inflectional Morphology / James Clackson -- Latin Syntax / Geoffrey Horrocks -- Latin Vocabulary / Mich͏̈le Fruyt -- Word-Formation in Classical Latin / Mich͏̈le Fruyt -- Latin Particles and the Grammar of Discourse / Caroline Kroon -- Latin through Time. The Historical Background to Latin within the Indo-European Language Family / Benjamin W Fortson -- Archaic and Old Latin / John Penney -- Classical Latin / James Clackson -- Late Latin / J N Adams -- Medieval Latin / Greti Dinkova-Bruun -- Neo-Latin / David Butterfield -- Literary Registers of Latin. The Language of Roman Comedy / Wolfgang de Melo -- The Language of Latin Epic and Lyric Poetry / Rolando Ferri -- The Language of Latin Verse Satire / Anna Chahoud -- The Language of Roman Oratory and Rhetoric / J G F Powell -- The Language of Latin Historiography / Christina Shuttleworth Kraus -- Epistolary Latin / Hilla Halla-aho -- Latin as a Technical and Scientific Language / Thorsten F̱gen -- Legal Latin / J G F Powell -- Christian Latin / Philip Burton -- Latin in Social and Political Contexts. The Social Dialects of Latin / James Clackson -- Latin and Other Languages: Societal and Individual Bilingualism / Alex Mullen -- Language Policies in the Roman Republic and Empire / Bruno Rochette -- Latin inside and outside of Rome / Giovanbattista Galdi -- References -- Index Locorum -- Index.
SourcesThe language -- Latin through time -- Literary registers of Latin -- Latin in social and political contexts.
A companion to the Latin language
Published:
2011
Publisher:
Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA
A Companion to the Latin Language presents a collection of original essays from international scholars that track the development and use of the Latin language from its origins to its modern day usage. Brings together contributions from...
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A Companion to the Latin Language presents a collection of original essays from international scholars that track the development and use of the Latin language from its origins to its modern day usage. Brings together contributions from internationally renowned classicists, linguists and Latin language specialistsOffers, in a single volume, a detailed account of different literary registers of the Latin languageExplores the social and political contexts of LatinIncludes new accounts of the Latin language in light of modern linguistic theorySupplemented with illustrations covering the developme Sources -- The language -- Latin through time -- Literary registers of Latin -- Latin in social and political contexts.
Front MatterIntroduction / James Clackson -- Sources. The Latin Alphabet and Orthography / Rex Wallace -- Latin Inscriptions and Documents / James Clackson -- Latin Manuscripts and Textual Traditions / Bruce Gibson -- Romance Languages as a Source for Spoken Latin / Roger Wright -- The Language. The Sounds of Latin: Phonology / Matthew McCullagh -- Latin Prosody and Metrics / Benjamin W Fortson -- The Forms of Latin: Inflectional Morphology / James Clackson -- Latin Syntax / Geoffrey Horrocks -- Latin Vocabulary / Mich͏̈le Fruyt -- Word-Formation in Classical Latin / Mich͏̈le Fruyt -- Latin Particles and the Grammar of Discourse / Caroline Kroon -- Latin through Time. The Historical Background to Latin within the Indo-European Language Family / Benjamin W Fortson -- Archaic and Old Latin / John Penney -- Classical Latin / James Clackson -- Late Latin / J N Adams -- Medieval Latin / Greti Dinkova-Bruun -- Neo-Latin / David Butterfield -- Literary Registers of Latin. The Language of Roman Comedy / Wolfgang de Melo -- The Language of Latin Epic and Lyric Poetry / Rolando Ferri -- The Language of Latin Verse Satire / Anna Chahoud -- The Language of Roman Oratory and Rhetoric / J G F Powell -- The Language of Latin Historiography / Christina Shuttleworth Kraus -- Epistolary Latin / Hilla Halla-aho -- Latin as a Technical and Scientific Language / Thorsten F̱gen -- Legal Latin / J G F Powell -- Christian Latin / Philip Burton -- Latin in Social and Political Contexts. The Social Dialects of Latin / James Clackson -- Latin and Other Languages: Societal and Individual Bilingualism / Alex Mullen -- Language Policies in the Roman Republic and Empire / Bruno Rochette -- Latin inside and outside of Rome / Giovanbattista Galdi -- References -- Index Locorum -- Index.
SourcesThe language -- Latin through time -- Literary registers of Latin -- Latin in social and political contexts.
