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Oscan in Southern Italy and Sicily - Evaluating Language Contact in a Fragmentary Corpus (Paperback)
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Oscan in Southern Italy and Sicily - Evaluating Language Contact in a Fragmentary Corpus (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Classical Studies
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In pre-Roman Italy and Sicily, dozens of languages and writing
systems competed and interacted, and bilingualism was the norm.
Using frameworks from epigraphy, archaeology and the
sociolinguistics of language contact, this book explores the
relationship between Greek and Oscan, two of the most widely spoken
languages in the south of the peninsula. Dr McDonald undertakes a
new analysis of the entire corpus of South Oscan texts written in
Lucania, Bruttium and Messana, including dedications, curse
tablets, laws, funerary texts and graffiti. She demonstrates that
genre and domain are critical to understanding where and when Greek
was used within Oscan-speaking communities, and how ancient
bilinguals exploited the social meaning of their languages in their
writing. This book also offers a cutting-edge example of how to
build the fullest possible picture of bilingualism in fragmentary
languages across the ancient world.
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