James Clackson is Professor of Comparative Philology at the University of Cambridge.  He is the author of Language and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds (2015), Indo-European Languages (2007) and The Linguistic Relationship between Armenian and Greek (1994).  He is co-author of The Blackwell History of the Latin Language (with Geoffrey Horrocks, Wiley-Blackwell 2007), and co-editor of Indo-European Word Formation (with Birgit Anette Olsen, 2004), and Nominal Composition in Indo-European Languages (with Torsten Meißner, 2002).

• List of Illustrations viiiNotes on Contributors xAbbreviations of Ancient Authors and Works xivAbbreviations of Modern Sources xxSymbols Used xxivLinguistic and Other Abbreviations xxv1 Introduction 1James ClacksonPART I Sources 72 The Latin Alphabet and Orthography 9Rex Wallace3 Latin Inscriptions and Documents 29James Clackson4 Latin Manuscripts and Textual Traditions 40Bruce Gibson5 Romance Languages as a Source for Spoken Latin 59Roger WrightPART II The Language 816 The Sounds of Latin: Phonology 83Matthew McCullagh7 Latin Prosody and Metrics 92Benjamin W. Fortson IV8 The Forms of Latin: Inflectional Morphology 105James Clackson9 Latin Syntax 118Geoffrey Horrocks10 Latin Vocabulary 144Michèle Fruyt11 Word-Formation in Classical Latin 157Michèle Fruyt12 Latin Particles and the Grammar of Discourse 176Caroline KroonPART III Latin Through Time 19713 The Historical Background to Latin within the Indo-European Language Family 199Benjamin W. Fortson IV14 Archaic and Old Latin 220John Penney15 Classical Latin 236James Clackson16 Late Latin 257J.N. Adams17 Medieval Latin 284Greti Dinkova-Bruun18 Neo-Latin 303David ButterfieldPART IV Literary Registers of Latin 31919 The Language of Roman Comedy 321Wolfgang de Melo20 The Language of Latin Epic and Lyric Poetry 344Rolando Ferri21 The Language of Latin Verse Satire 367Anna Chahoud22 The Language of Roman Oratory and Rhetoric 384J.G.F. Powell23 The Language of Latin Historiography 408Christina Shuttleworth Kraus24 Epistolary Latin 426Hilla Halla-aho25 Latin as a Technical and Scientific Language 445Thorsten Fögen26 Legal Latin 464J.G.F. Powell27 Christian Latin 485Philip BurtonPART V Latin in Social and Political Contexts 50328 The Social Dialects of Latin 505James Clackson29 Latin and Other Languages: Societal and Individual Bilingualism 527Alex Mullen30 Language Policies in the Roman Republic and Empire 549Bruno Rochette31 Latin Inside and Outside of Rome 564Giovanbattista GaldiReferences 582Index Locorum 619Index 627