Translations in the History of Languages

The volume collects papers dealing with a variety of dialects/ languages (Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Gothic, Italian, Spanish, English – among other languages), focusing on the role of translations in the history of languages. The papers offer important contributions to the analysis of aspects related to written language contact and the position of translations in historical corpora, such as translation effects and contact-induced change, new meanings and constructions in the Septuagint and Old Testament citations in the New Testament, the diachrony of constructions in biblical and non-biblical translations. In this respect, the volume summarizes the main results in the field achieved by different researchers and presents evidence from various case studies according to an innovative, interdisciplinary perspective of investigating translations in a diachronic linguistic context.