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 development of the Latin alphabet
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For a dead language, Latin has achieved an elevated stature unmatched by few living languages -- its cultural cachet evidenced through countless terms and phrases utilized in Western law, medicine, and science.
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List of Illustrations viii Notes on Contributors x Abbreviations of Ancient Authors and Works xiv Abbreviations of Modern Sources xx Symbols Used xxiv Linguistic and Other Abbreviations xxv 1 Introduction 1James Clackson PART I Sources 7 2 The Latin Alphabet and Orthography 9Rex Wallace 3 Latin Inscriptions and Documents 29James Clackson 4 Latin Manuscripts and Textual Traditions 40Bruce Gibson 5 Romance Languages as a Source for Spoken Latin 59Roger Wright PART II The Language 81 6 The Sounds of Latin: Phonology 83Matthew McCullagh 7 Latin Prosody and Metrics 92Benjamin W. Fortson IV 8 The Forms of Latin: Inflectional Morphology 105James Clackson 9 Latin Syntax 118Geoffrey Horrocks 10 Latin Vocabulary 144Michèle Fruyt 11 Word-Formation in Classical Latin 157Michèle Fruyt 12 Latin Particles and the Grammar of Discourse 176Caroline Kroon PART III Latin Through Time 197 13 The Historical Background to Latin within the Indo-European Language Family 199Benjamin W. Fortson IV 14 Archaic and Old Latin 220John Penney 15 Classical Latin 236James Clackson 16 Late Latin 257J.N. Adams 17 Medieval Latin 284Greti Dinkova-Bruun 18 Neo-Latin 303David Butterfield PART IV Literary Registers of Latin 319 19 The Language of Roman Comedy 321Wolfgang de Melo 20 The Language of Latin Epic and Lyric Poetry 344Rolando Ferri 21 The Language of Latin Verse Satire 367Anna Chahoud 22 The Language of Roman Oratory and Rhetoric 384J.G.F. Powell 23 The Language of Latin Historiography 408Christina Shuttleworth Kraus 24 Epistolary Latin 426Hilla Halla-aho 25 Latin as a Technical and Scientific Language 445Thorsten Fögen 26 Legal Latin 464J.G.F. Powell 27 Christian Latin 485Philip Burton PART V Latin in Social and Political Contexts 503 28 The Social Dialects of Latin 505James Clackson 29 Latin and Other Languages: Societal and Individual Bilingualism 527Alex Mullen 30 Language Policies in the Roman Republic and Empire 549Bruno Rochette 31 Latin Inside and Outside of Rome 564Giovanbattista Galdi References 582 Index Locorum 619 Index 627
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Latin, the lingua franca of the ancient Romans, flourished long after the demise of the mighty empire. In fact, for a ”dead” language, Latin went on to achieve an elevated stature unmatched by few living languages -- its cultural cachet evidenced through countless terms and phrases utilized in Western law, medicine, religion, and science. To celebrate this extraordinary legacy, A Companion to the Latin Language offers a comprehensive account of the evolution of Latin from its Indo-European origins to its modern-day usage. Internationally renowned classicists, linguists, and Latin language specialists offer contributions on topics such as Latin language sources; the linguistic structure of Latin; the idioms and styles characteristic of a range of Latin literary registers; and the social and political contexts of the language. Unmatched in breadth of coverage and scholarly rigor, A Companion to the Latin Language presents the most thorough and up-to-date consideration of the rich complexities and enduring legacy of the Latin language available today.
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List of Figures List of Tables Notes on Contributors Symbols Used Abbreviations of Ancient Authors and Works Abbreviations of Modern Sources Linguistic and Other Abbreviations Introduction: James Clackson Part I: Sources Part II: The Language Part III: Latin Through Time Part IV: Literary Registers of Latin Part V: Latin in Social and Political Contexts Bibliography Indexes
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9781405186056
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2011-08-12
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Wiley-Blackwell
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1334 gr
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254 mm
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180 mm
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41 mm
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UP, 05
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Engelsk
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664

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Biographical note

James Clackson is Professor of Comparative Philology at the University of Cambridge.  He is the author of Language and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds (2015), Indo-European Languages (2007) and The Linguistic Relationship between Armenian and Greek (1994).  He is co-author of The Blackwell History of the Latin Language (with Geoffrey Horrocks, Wiley-Blackwell 2007), and co-editor of Indo-European Word Formation (with Birgit Anette Olsen, 2004), and Nominal Composition in Indo-European Languages (with Torsten Meißner, 2002).