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ISBN 10: 1444343378 

ISBN 13: 9781444343373

Author: James Clackson

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 specialists
• Offers, in a single volume, a detailed account of different literary registers of the Latin language
• Explores the social and political contexts of Latin
• Includes new accounts of the Latin language in light of modern linguistic theory
• Supplemented with illustrations covering the development of the Latin alphabet

Table of contents:

1.Introduction
James Clackson

PART I Sources

2 The Latin Alphabet and Orthography
Rex Wallace

3 Latin Inscriptions and Documents
James Clackson

4 Latin Manuscripts and Textual Traditions
Bruce Gibson

5 Romance Languages as a Source for Spoken Latin
Roger Wright

PART II The Language

6 The Sounds of Latin: Phonology
Matthew McCullagh

7 Latin Prosody and Metrics
Benjamin W. Fortson IV

8 The Forms of Latin: Inflectional Morphology
James Clackson

9 Latin Syntax
Geoffrey Horrocks

10 Latin Vocabulary
Michèle Fruyt

11 Word-Formation in Classical Latin
Michèle Fruyt

12 Latin Particles and the Grammar of Discourse
Caroline Kroon

PART III Latin Through Time

13 The Historical Background to Latin within the Indo-European Language Family
Benjamin W. Fortson IV

14 Archaic and Old Latin
John Penney

15 Classical Latin
James Clackson

16 Late Latin
J.N. Adams

17 Medieval Latin
Greti Dinkova-Bruun

18 Neo-Latin
David Butterfield

PART IV Literary Registers of Latin

19 The Language of Roman Comedy
Wolfgang de Melo

20 The Language of Latin Epic and Lyric Poetry
Rolando Ferri

21 The Language of Latin Verse Satire
Anna Chahoud

22 The Language of Roman Oratory and Rhetoric
J.G.F. Powell

23 The Language of Latin Historiography
Christina Shuttleworth Kraus

24 Epistolary Latin
Hilla Halla-aho

25 Latin as a Technical and Scientific Language
Thorsten Fögen

26 Legal Latin
J.G.F. Powell

27 Christian Latin
Philip Burton

PART V Latin in Social and Political Contexts

28 The Social Dialects of Latin
James Clackson

29 Latin and Other Languages: Societal and Individual Bilingualism
Alex Mullen

30 Language Policies in the Roman Republic and Empire
Bruno Rochette

31 Latin Inside and Outside of Rome
Giovanbattista Galdi

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