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Bilingualism and the Latin language /

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, dow...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Adams, J. N. (James Noel)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • I. Introductory remarks; some issues in the study of bilingualism
  • II. Bilingualism
  • III. Elite and sub-elite bilingualism : anecdotal evidence and its shortcomings
  • IV. Romans, Greeks and others as language learners
  • V. Code-switching, interference and borrowing
  • VI. A further note on loan-words
  • VII. Sources of information
  • VIII. The authorship of inscriptions
  • IX. Pidgins and 'reduced' languages
  • X. Some concluding remarks. App. Attitudes to the Greek accent in Latin
  • 2. Languages in Contact with Latin
  • I. Introduction
  • II. Oscan, Umbrian, Venetic, Messapic
  • III. Etruscan
  • IV. Celtic (Gaulish)
  • V. Punic
  • VI. Libyan, Berber
  • VII. Aramaic.