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Orthographic Traditions and the Sub-elite in the Roman Empire

Nicholas Zair
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This book makes use of digital corpora to give in-depth details of the history and development of the spelling of Latin. It focusses on sub-elite texts in the Roman empire, and reveals that sophisticated education in this area was not restricted to those at the top of society. Nicholas Zair studies the history of particular orthographic features and traces their usage in a range of texts which give insight into everyday writers of Latin: including scribes and soldiers at Vindolanda, slaves at Pompeii, members of the Praetorian Guard, and writers of curse tablets. In doing so, he problematises the use of 'old-fashioned' spelling in dating inscriptions, provides important new information on sound-change in Latin, and shows how much can be gained from a detailed sociolinguistic analysis of ancient texts.

Latin Loanwords in Ancient Greek

A Lexicon and Analysis
Eleanor Dickey
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Why, when, and how did speakers of ancient Greek borrow words from Latin? Which words did they borrow? Who used Latin loanwords, and how? Who avoided them, and why? How many words were borrowed, and what kind of word? How long did the loanwords survive? Until now, attempts to answer such questions have been based on incomplete and often misleading evidence, but this study offers the first comprehensive collection of evidence from papyri, inscriptions, and literature from the fifth century BC to the sixth century AD. That collection – included in the book as a lexicon of Latin loanwords – is examined using insights from linguistic work on modern languages to provide new answers that often differ strikingly from earlier ones. The analysis is accessibly presented, and the lexicon offers a firm foundation for future work in this area.

Iliad Book 18
Corporate Author Joint Association of Classical Teachers' Greek Course
Edited with Introduction and Notes by Stephen Anderson, New College, Oxford, Keith Maclennan, Rugby School, Warwickshire, Naoko Yamagata, The Open University, Milton Keynes
General editor John Taylor, University of Manchester
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Grammar Index
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Edited with Introduction and Notes by Stephen Anderson, New College, Oxford, Keith Maclennan, Rugby School, Warwickshire, Naoko Yamagata, The Open University, Milton Keynes
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17 November 2022, pp 193-194
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Edited with Introduction and Notes by Stephen Anderson, New College, Oxford, Keith Maclennan, Rugby School, Warwickshire, Naoko Yamagata, The Open University, Milton Keynes
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Edited with Introduction and Notes by Stephen Anderson, New College, Oxford, Keith Maclennan, Rugby School, Warwickshire, Naoko Yamagata, The Open University, Milton Keynes
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Frontmatter
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List of illustrations
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Preface
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Corporate Author Joint Association of Classical Teachers' Greek Course
Edited with Introduction and Notes by Stephen Anderson, New College, Oxford, Keith Maclennan, Rugby School, Warwickshire, Naoko Yamagata, The Open University, Milton Keynes
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List of abbreviations
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Dedication
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Notes for the Reader
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Vocabulary
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Edited with Introduction and Notes by Stephen Anderson, New College, Oxford, Keith Maclennan, Rugby School, Warwickshire, Naoko Yamagata, The Open University, Milton Keynes
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Introduction
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10 - Germanic
- By Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen, Guus Jan Kroonen
Edited by Thomas Olander, University of Copenhagen
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The Indo-European Language Family

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The chapter establishes Germanic as an Indo-European branch by identifying phonological and morphological innovations common to all Germanic languages, e.g. Rask/Grimm’s Law, Verner’s Law and the grammation of a complex verbal system with strong, weak and preterite-present verbs. Furthermore, the chapter identifies three Germanic sub-branches (East, North, West) and discusses the possibility of binary splits leading to intermediary subgroupings, of which either North-West or North-East Germanic seems credible depending on one’s view on Verschärfung. Alternatively, in a dialect continuum, North Germanic may have shared innovations with first East, then West Germanic prior to the final split. Finally, the chapter examines with which Indo-European branches Germanic shares non-trivial innovations and thus, maybe, a common node on the cladistic tree. Promising innovations shared with Italic and with Balto-Slavic (and Tocharian?) are considered in particular, but the sustained productivity of nominal ablaut and the preterite-presents calls for the conclusion that Germanic split off from Proto-Indo-European relatively early, as these features are mostly lost in the non-Anatolian branches.

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The Indo-European Language Family

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The chapter provides a general introduction to the book, presenting the background and the overall framework. It assesses the relationship between traditional linguistic phylogenetics and more recent computational approaches. After discussing the terminology relevant for linguistic phylogenetic studies it provides an overview of the various chapters of the book, highlighting some of the most important problems discussed by the authors. It then discusses some of the specific results of the individual chapters and the broader perspectives they offer on the phylogenetics of the Indo-European language family.

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