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Texts written in Latin, Greek and other languages provide ancient
historians with their primary evidence, but the role of language as
a source for understanding the ancient world is often overlooked.
Language played a key role in state-formation and the spread of
Christianity, the construction of ethnicity, and negotiating
positions of social status and group membership. Language could
reinforce social norms and shed light on taboos. This book presents
an accessible account of ways in which linguistic evidence can
illuminate topics such as imperialism, ethnicity, social mobility,
religion, gender and sexuality in the ancient world, without
assuming the reader has any knowledge of Greek or Latin, or of
linguistic jargon. It describes the rise of Greek and Latin at the
expense of other languages spoken around the Mediterranean and
details the social meanings of different styles, and the attitudes
of ancient speakers towards linguistic differences.
Migration, Mobility and Language Contact in and around the Ancient
Mediterranean is the first volume to show the different ways in
which surviving linguistic evidence can be used to track movements
of people in the ancient world. Eleven chapters cover a number of
case studies, which span the period from the seventh century BC to
the fourth century AD, ranging from Spain to Egypt, from Sicily to
Pannonia. The book includes detailed study of epigraphic and
literary evidence written in Latin and Greek, as well as work on
languages which are not so well documented, such as Etruscan and
Oscan. There is a subject index and an index of works and
inscriptions cited.
Texts written in Latin, Greek and other languages provide ancient
historians with their primary evidence, but the role of language as
a source for understanding the ancient world is often overlooked.
Language played a key role in state-formation and the spread of
Christianity, the construction of ethnicity, and negotiating
positions of social status and group membership. Language could
reinforce social norms and shed light on taboos. This book presents
an accessible account of ways in which linguistic evidence can
illuminate topics such as imperialism, ethnicity, social mobility,
religion, gender and sexuality in the ancient world, without
assuming the reader has any knowledge of Greek or Latin, or of
linguistic jargon. It describes the rise of Greek and Latin at the
expense of other languages spoken around the Mediterranean and
details the social meanings of different styles, and the attitudes
of ancient speakers towards linguistic differences.
The Indo-European language family consists of many of the modern
and ancient languages of Europe, India and Central Asia, including
Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Russian, German, French, Spanish and
English. Spoken by an estimated three billion people, it has the
largest number of native speakers in the world today. This textbook
provides an accessible introduction to the study of the
Indo-European languages. It clearly sets out the methods for
relating the languages to one another, presents an engaging
discussion of the current debates and controversies concerning
their classification, and offers sample problems and suggestions
for how to solve them. Complete with a comprehensive glossary,
almost 100 tables in which language data and examples are clearly
laid out, suggestions for further reading, discussion points, and a
range of exercises, this text will be an essential toolkit for all
those studying historical linguistics, language typology and the
Indo-European languages for the first time.
This book contains twenty articles on the subject of derivational
morphology in Indo-European languages, and is the result of the
conference "Indo-European Word Formation", held in Copenhagen,
October 20th - 22nd 2000. The papers, covering all areas of
Indo-European, make substantial contributions to the current
intensive research on word formation, and many of them break new
ground or shed new light on old problems. While some contributions
are particularly concerned with the construction of theoretical
models of Indo-European, others continue the traditional
philological research into corpus languages. Finally, such issues
as the borderland between morphology and syntax and the potential
connection between Indo-European and other language families are
brought up for discussion. Contributions by: Fabrice Cavoto, Paul
S. Cohen, George Dunkel, Adam Hyllested, Britta Irslinger, Folke
Josephson, Konstantin Krasukhin, Martin Kummel, Jenny Larsson,
Rosemarie Luhr, Michael Meier-Brugger, Benedicte Nielsen, Alan
Nussbaum, Birgit Olsen, Natalia Pimenova, Jens Elmegard Rasmussen,
Elisabeth Rieken, Velizar Sadovski, Woiciech Smoczynski, Brent Vine
og Gordon Whittaker.
Migration, Mobility and Language Contact in and around the Ancient
Mediterranean is the first volume to show the different ways in
which surviving linguistic evidence can be used to track movements
of people in the ancient world. Eleven chapters cover a number of
case studies, which span the period from the seventh century BC to
the fourth century AD, ranging from Spain to Egypt, from Sicily to
Pannonia. The book includes detailed study of epigraphic and
literary evidence written in Latin and Greek, as well as work on
languages which are not so well documented, such as Etruscan and
Oscan. There is a subject index and an index of works and
inscriptions cited.
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