Author: Olga Tribulato
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107029317
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
A comprehensive and up-to-date account of the languages of ancient Sicily by an international team of experts.
Language and Linguistic Contact in Ancient Sicily
Author: Olga Tribulato
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107029317
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
A comprehensive and up-to-date account of the languages of ancient Sicily by an international team of experts.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107029317
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
A comprehensive and up-to-date account of the languages of ancient Sicily by an international team of experts.
Oscan in Southern Italy and Sicily
Author: Katherine McDonald
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107103835
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
A groundbreaking new interpretation of the relationship between Greek and Oscan, two of the most widely spoken languages of pre-Roman Italy.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107103835
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
A groundbreaking new interpretation of the relationship between Greek and Oscan, two of the most widely spoken languages of pre-Roman Italy.
Ancient Indo-European Languages between Linguistics and Philology
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004508821
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This volume contains a new and up-to date selection of case studies which offer new insights on various topics in Indo-European linguistics, with a focus on contact, variation, and reconstruction, and with methods that straddle the divide between Linguistics and Philology.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004508821
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This volume contains a new and up-to date selection of case studies which offer new insights on various topics in Indo-European linguistics, with a focus on contact, variation, and reconstruction, and with methods that straddle the divide between Linguistics and Philology.
Hellenistic and Roman Greece as a Sociolinguistic Area
Author: Vít Bubeník
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027235511
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
This study concentrates on the Hellenistic and Roman periods in the history of Greek language. It focuses on the gradual contamination of classical dialects by the Hellenistic Koine, their disappearance, the range of intraregional variation, and the process of Koinization from the angle of interregional adjustments. The author draws on recent sociolinguistic methods dealing with lexical and social diffusion of linguistic change, statistical analysis, and research into bilingualism and diglossia.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027235511
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
This study concentrates on the Hellenistic and Roman periods in the history of Greek language. It focuses on the gradual contamination of classical dialects by the Hellenistic Koine, their disappearance, the range of intraregional variation, and the process of Koinization from the angle of interregional adjustments. The author draws on recent sociolinguistic methods dealing with lexical and social diffusion of linguistic change, statistical analysis, and research into bilingualism and diglossia.
Sicily from Aeneas to Augustus
Author: Christopher John Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This volume provides a chronological account of the island's history, interwoven with discussions of Sicilian identity, to show Sicily as a centre of affairs within the context of a fundamentally regional ancient world.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This volume provides a chronological account of the island's history, interwoven with discussions of Sicilian identity, to show Sicily as a centre of affairs within the context of a fundamentally regional ancient world.
Language and Identity in Multilingual Mediterranean Settings
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783110554281
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783110554281
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds
Author: Alex Mullen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 113956062X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Through words and images employed both by individuals and by a range of communities across the Graeco-Roman worlds, this book explores the complexity of multilingual representations of identity. Starting with the advent of literacy in the Mediterranean, it encompasses not just the Greek and Roman empires but also the transformation of the Graeco-Roman world under Islam and within the medieval mind. By treating a range of materials, contexts, languages, and temporal and political boundaries, the contributors consider points of cross-cultural similarity and difference and the changing linguistic landscape of East and West from antiquity into the medieval period. Insights from contemporary multilingualism theory and interdisciplinary perspectives are employed throughout to exploit the material fully.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 113956062X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Through words and images employed both by individuals and by a range of communities across the Graeco-Roman worlds, this book explores the complexity of multilingual representations of identity. Starting with the advent of literacy in the Mediterranean, it encompasses not just the Greek and Roman empires but also the transformation of the Graeco-Roman world under Islam and within the medieval mind. By treating a range of materials, contexts, languages, and temporal and political boundaries, the contributors consider points of cross-cultural similarity and difference and the changing linguistic landscape of East and West from antiquity into the medieval period. Insights from contemporary multilingualism theory and interdisciplinary perspectives are employed throughout to exploit the material fully.
Dialect Change
Author: Peter Auer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521806879
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Dialects are constantly changing, and due to increased mobility in more recent years, European dialects have 'levelled', making it difficult to distinguish a native of Reading from a native of London, or a native of Bonn from a native of Cologne. This comprehensive study brings together a team of leading scholars to explore all aspects of recent dialect change, in particular dialect convergence and divergence. Drawing on examples from a wide range of European countries - as well as areas where European languages have been transplanted - they examine a range of issues relating to dialect contact and isolation, and show how sociolinguistic conditions differ hugely between and within European countries. Each specially commissioned chapter is based on original research, giving an overview of work on that particular area and presenting case studies to illustrate the issues discussed. Dialect Change will be welcomed by all those interested in sociolinguistics, dialectology, the relevance of language variation to formal linguistic theories, and European languages.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521806879
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Dialects are constantly changing, and due to increased mobility in more recent years, European dialects have 'levelled', making it difficult to distinguish a native of Reading from a native of London, or a native of Bonn from a native of Cologne. This comprehensive study brings together a team of leading scholars to explore all aspects of recent dialect change, in particular dialect convergence and divergence. Drawing on examples from a wide range of European countries - as well as areas where European languages have been transplanted - they examine a range of issues relating to dialect contact and isolation, and show how sociolinguistic conditions differ hugely between and within European countries. Each specially commissioned chapter is based on original research, giving an overview of work on that particular area and presenting case studies to illustrate the issues discussed. Dialect Change will be welcomed by all those interested in sociolinguistics, dialectology, the relevance of language variation to formal linguistic theories, and European languages.
The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages: Volume 2, Contexts
Author: Martin Maiden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521800730
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
What is the origin of the Romance languages and how did they evolve? When and how did they become different from Latin, and from each other? Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages offers fresh and original reflections on the principal questions and issues in the comparative external histories of the Romance languages. It is organised around the two key themes of influences and institutions, exploring the fundamental influence, of contact with and borrowing from, other languages (including Latin), and the cultural and institutional forces at work in the establishment of standard languages and norms of correctness. A perfect complement to the first volume, it offers an external history of the Romance languages combining data and theory to produce new and revealing perspectives on the shaping of the Romance languages.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521800730
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
What is the origin of the Romance languages and how did they evolve? When and how did they become different from Latin, and from each other? Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages offers fresh and original reflections on the principal questions and issues in the comparative external histories of the Romance languages. It is organised around the two key themes of influences and institutions, exploring the fundamental influence, of contact with and borrowing from, other languages (including Latin), and the cultural and institutional forces at work in the establishment of standard languages and norms of correctness. A perfect complement to the first volume, it offers an external history of the Romance languages combining data and theory to produce new and revealing perspectives on the shaping of the Romance languages.
Crossing Experiences in Digital Epigraphy
Author: Irene Rossi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783110607192
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Although a relevant number of projects digitizing inscriptions are under development or have been recently accomplished, Digital Epigraphy is not yet considered to be a proper discipline and there are still no regular occasions to meet and discuss. By collecting contributions on nineteen projects - very diversified for geographic and chronological context, for script and language, and for typology of digital output - this volume intends to point out the methodological issues which are specific to the application of information technologies to epigraphy. The first part of the volume is focused on data modelling and encoding, which are conditioned by the specific features of different scripts and languages, and deeply influence the possibility to perform searches on texts and the approach to the lexicographic study of such under-resourced languages. The second part of the volume is dedicated to the initiatives aimed at fostering aggregation, dissemination and the reuse of epigraphic materials, and to discuss issues of interoperability. The common theme of the volume is the relationship between the compliance with the theoretic tools and the methodologies developed by each different tradition of studies, and, on the other side, the necessity of adopting a common framework in order to produce commensurable and shareable results. The final question is whether the computational approach is changing the way epigraphy is studied, to the extent of renovating the discipline on the basis of new, unexplored questions.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783110607192
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Although a relevant number of projects digitizing inscriptions are under development or have been recently accomplished, Digital Epigraphy is not yet considered to be a proper discipline and there are still no regular occasions to meet and discuss. By collecting contributions on nineteen projects - very diversified for geographic and chronological context, for script and language, and for typology of digital output - this volume intends to point out the methodological issues which are specific to the application of information technologies to epigraphy. The first part of the volume is focused on data modelling and encoding, which are conditioned by the specific features of different scripts and languages, and deeply influence the possibility to perform searches on texts and the approach to the lexicographic study of such under-resourced languages. The second part of the volume is dedicated to the initiatives aimed at fostering aggregation, dissemination and the reuse of epigraphic materials, and to discuss issues of interoperability. The common theme of the volume is the relationship between the compliance with the theoretic tools and the methodologies developed by each different tradition of studies, and, on the other side, the necessity of adopting a common framework in order to produce commensurable and shareable results. The final question is whether the computational approach is changing the way epigraphy is studied, to the extent of renovating the discipline on the basis of new, unexplored questions.