Languages show variations according to the social class of speakers
and Latin was no exception, as readers of Petronius are aware. The
Romance languages have traditionally been regarded as developing
out of a 'language of the common people' (Vulgar Latin), but
studies of modern languages demonstrate that linguistic change does
not merely come, in the social sense, 'from below'. There is change
from above, as prestige usages work their way down the social
scale, and change may also occur across the social classes. This
book is a history of many of the developments undergone by the
Latin language as it changed into Romance, demonstrating the
varying social levels at which change was initiated. About thirty
topics are dealt with, many of them more systematically than ever
before. Discussions often start in the early Republic with Plautus,
and the book is as much about the literary language as about
informal varieties.
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