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The Regional Diversification of Latin 200 BC - AD 600
Av J. N. Adams
Häftad, 2014
705 kr
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Classical Latin appears to be without regional dialects, yet Latin evolved in little more than a millennium into a variety of different languages (the Romance languages: Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese etc.). Was regional diversity apparent from the earliest times, obscured perhaps by the …
An Anthology of Informal Latin, 200 BC-AD 900
Fifty Texts with Translations and Linguistic Commentary
Av J. N. Adams
Häftad, 2019
586 kr
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This book contains over fifty passages of Latin from 200 BC to AD 900, each with translation and linguistic commentary. It is not intended as an elementary reader (though suitable for university courses), but as an illustrative history of Latin covering more than a millennium, with almost every …
Bilingualism in Ancient Society
Language Contact and the Written Text
Av J. N. Adams, Mark Janse m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
4405 kr
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Bilingualism - the field of language contact - has seen an explosion of work in recent years, yet relatively little of this has focused on written texts. This volume aims to introduce classicists, ancient historians, and other scholars interested in sociolinguistic research to the evidence of …
Bilingualism and the Latin Language
Av J. N. Adams
Häftad, 2008
720 kr
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Since the 1980s, bilingualism has become one of the main themes of sociolinguistics - but there are as yet few large-scale treatments of the subject specific to the ancient world. This book is the first work to deal systematically with bilingualism during a period of antiquity (the Roman period, …
The Regional Diversification of Latin 200 BC - AD 600
Av J. N. Adams
Inbunden, 2007
3187 kr
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Classical Latin appears to be without regional dialects, yet Latin evolved in little more than a millennium into a variety of different languages (the Romance languages: Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese etc.). Was regional diversity apparent from the earliest times, obscured perhaps by the …
Social Variation and the Latin Language
Av J. N. Adams
Inbunden, 2013
2584 kr
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Languages show variations according to the social class of speakers and Latin was no exception, as readers of Petronius are aware. The Romance languages have traditionally been regarded as developing out of a 'language of the common people' (Vulgar Latin), but studies of modern languages …
Latin Sexual Vocabulary
Av J. N. Adams
Häftad, 1990
403 kr
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LIke other languages, Latin contained certain words its speakers considered obscene as well as a rich stock of sexual euphemism and metaphor. Our sources for this information range from surviving graffiti to literary works with a marked sexual content. Yet despite its manifest literary and …
An Anthology of Informal Latin, 200 BC-AD 900
Fifty Texts with Translations and Linguistic Commentary
Av J. N. Adams
Inbunden, 2016
2851 kr
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This book contains over fifty passages of Latin from 200 BC to AD 900, each with translation and linguistic commentary. It is not intended as an elementary reader (though suitable for university courses), but as an illustrative history of Latin covering more than a millennium, with almost every …
Early and Late Latin
Continuity or Change?
Inbunden, 2016
2024 kr
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This book addresses the question of whether there are continuities in Latin spanning the period from the early Republic through to the Romance languages. It is often maintained that various usages admitted by early comedy were rejected later by the literary language but continued in speech, to …
Early Latin
Constructs, Diversity, Reception
Av J. N. Adams, Anna Chahoud m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
2019 kr
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This is the most detailed and comprehensive study to date of early Latin language, literary and non-literary, featuring twenty-nine chapters by an international team of scholars. 'Early Latin' is interpreted liberally as extending from the period of early inscriptions through to the first quarter …
Early Latin
Constructs, Diversity, Reception
Av Giuseppe Pezzini, Anna Chahoud m. fl.
E-bok, 2023
2250 kr
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Early Latin
Constructs, Diversity, Reception
Av Giuseppe Pezzini, Anna Chahoud m. fl.
E-bok, 2023
2299 kr
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Asyndeton and its Interpretation in Latin Literature
History, Patterns, Textual Criticism
Av J. N. Adams
Inbunden, 2021
2451 kr
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Asyndetic coordination (omission of coordinators such as 'but', 'or', 'and') is ancient in Indo-European languages. Most commentaries on Greek and Latin texts index 'asyndeton', but wide-ranging treatments of asyndeton across a variety of literary and non-literary genres are largely lacking, and …
Social Variation and the Latin Language
Av J. N. Adams
Häftad, 2016
804 kr
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Languages show variations according to the social class of speakers and Latin was no exception, as readers of Petronius are aware. The Romance languages have traditionally been regarded as developing out of a 'language of the common people' (Vulgar Latin), but studies of modern languages …
Anthology of Informal Latin, 200 BC-AD 900
Fifty Texts with Translations and Linguistic Commentary
Av J. N. Adams
E-bok, 2016
571 kr
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This book contains over fifty passages of Latin from 200 BC to AD 900, each with translation and linguistic commentary. It is not intended as an elementary reader (though suitable for university courses), but as an illustrative history of Latin covering more than a millennium, with almost every …
Anthology of Informal Latin, 200 BC-AD 900
Fifty Texts with Translations and Linguistic Commentary
Av J. N. Adams
E-bok, 2016
554 kr
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This book contains over fifty passages of Latin from 200 BC to AD 900, each with translation and linguistic commentary. It is not intended as an elementary reader (though suitable for university courses), but as an illustrative history of Latin covering more than a millennium, with almost every …
