Bilingualism in Ancient Society: Language Contact and the Written Word

by J.N. Adams, M. Janse, S. Swain

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199245062
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/06/2003
Pages:	494
Product dimensions:	8.70(w) x 5.60(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

J.N. Adams is Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford M. Janse is Editor, Biographie Linguistique, The Hague, and Associate Professor of Greek and General Linguistics S. Swain is Professor of Classics, University of Warwick

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, J.N. Adams and S. Swain2. 1. Introductory, D. Langslow3. Dead or Alive? the Status of the Standard Language, K. Versteegh4. 2. Greek-Latin Bilingualism, F. Biville5. Bilingualism at Delos, J.N. Adams6. Bilingualism in Cicero? The Evidence of Code-Switching, S. Swain7. From Contact to Mixture: Bilingual Inscriptions from Italy, M. Leiwo8. 3. Greek and other languages, I. Rutherford9. Bilingualism in Roman Egypt, P. Fewster10. Greek and Phrygian in the High Roman Empire, C. Brixhe11. Res Gestae Divi Saporis: Greek and Middle Iranian in a Document of Sasanian, anti-Roman propaganda, Z. Rubin12. Bilingualism and Diglossia in Late Antique Syria and Mesopotamia, D. Taylor13. Aspects of Bilinigualism in the History of the Greek Language, M. Janse14. 4. Latin and other languages, P. Burton15. Latin-Frankish Bilingualism in Sixth-Century Gaul: the Latin of Clovis, P. Flobert

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"Will remain a reference work of central importance."— Religious Studies Review

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