Overview

Bilingualism - the field of language contact - has seen an explosion of work in recent years, yet relatively little of this has focused on written texts. 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. Language contact intruded into virtually every aspect of ancient life, and topics which have been fashionable in sociolinguistics for some time have now begun to attract the attention of scholars working in Graceo-Roman studies. 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. The collection is held together by a wide-ranging introduction which discusses the many important topics recurring in the volume in the light of current work in classics and sociolinguistics.

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Author:   J. N. Adams (, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford) ,  Mark Janse (, Editor of ^IBibliographie Linguistique^R, Associate Professor of Greek and General Linguistics at Ghent University, and a Research Fellow at the University of Amsterdam) ,  Simon Swain (, Professor of Classics, University of Warwick)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.60cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 22.40cm
Weight:   0.745kg
ISBN:  

9780199245062

ISBN 10:   0199245061
Pages:   494
Publication Date:   21 November 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: J. N. Adams and S. Swain: Introduction 1 Introductory 2: D. Langslow: Approaching Bilingualism in Corpus Languages 3: K. Versteegh: Dead or Alive? the Status of the Standard Language 2. Greek-Latin Bilingualism 4: F. Biville: Greco-Romans and Greco-Latin: a Terminological Framework for Cases of Bilingualism 5: J. N. Adams: Bilingualism at Delos 6: S. Swain: Bilingualism in Cicero? The Evidence of Code-Switching 7: M. Leiwo: From Contact to Mixture: Bilingual Inscriptions from Italy 3. Greek and other Languages 8: I. Rutherford: Interference of Translationese? Some Patterns in Lycian-Greek Bilingualism 9: P. Fewster: Bilingualism in Roman Egypt 10: C. Brixhe: Greek and Phrygian in the High Roman Empire 11: Z. Rubin: Res Gestae Divi Saporis: Greek and Middle Iranian in a Document of Sasanian, anti-Roman propaganda 12: D. Taylor: Bilingualism and Diglossia in Late Antique Syria and Mesopotamis 13: M. Janse: Aspects of Bilingualism in the History of the Greek Language 4. Latin and Other Languages 14: P. Burton: Assessing Latin-Gothic Interaction 15: P. Flobert: Latin-Frankish Bilingualism in Sixth-Century Gaul: the Latin of Clovis

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...a very successful and highly interesting book, to be recommended to all students of language contact. Journal of Sociolinguistics ...an outstanding and admirably coherent volume. Bryn Mawr Classical Review All in all, this is a very successful and highly interesting book, to be recommended to all students of language contact. Journal of Sociolinguistics

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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

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