Bilingualism in Ancient Society Language Contact and the Written Word [Hardcover]

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.

1. Introduction,J.N. Adams and S. Swain
2.1. IntroductoryApproaching Bilingualism in Corpus Languages,D. Langslow
3. Dead or Alive? the Status of the Standard Language,K. Versteegh
4.2. Greek-Latin BilingualismGreco-Romans and Greco-Latin: a Terminological Framework for Cases of Bilingualism,F. Biville
5. Bilingualism at Delos,J.N. Adams
6. Bilingualism in Cicero? The Evidence of Code-Switching,S. Swain
7. From Contact to Mixture: Bilingual Inscriptions from Italy,M. Leiwo
8.3. Greek and other languagesInterference or Translationese? Some Patterns in Lycian-Greek Bilingualism,I. Rutherford
9. Bilingualism in Roman Egypt,P. Fewster
10. Greek and Phrygian in the High Roman Empire,C. Brixhe
11.Res Gestae Divi Saporis: Greek and Middle Iranian in a Document of Sasanian, anti-Roman propaganda,Z. Rubin
12. Bilingualism and Diglossia in Late Antique Syria and Mesopotamia,D. Taylor
13. Aspects of Bilinigualism in the History of the Greek Language,M. Janse
14.4. Latin and other languagesAssessing Latin-Gothic Interaction,P. Burton
15. Latin-Frankish Bilingualism in Sixth-Century Gaul: the Latin of Clovis,P. Flobert

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

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