Oscan in southern Italy and Sicily evaluating language contact in a fragmentary corpus
Introduction -- Bilingualism and language contact in written texts -- Alphabets, epigraphy and orthography -- Dedicatory inscriptions -- Curse tablets -- Legal texts -- Official inscriptions, coins, funerary inscriptions, stamps and graffiti -- Conclusions -- Appendix 1: catalogue of sites -- Append...
Gespeichert in:
| 1. Verfasser: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | UnknownFormat |
| Sprache: | eng |
| Veröffentlicht: |
Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2015
|
| Schriftenreihe: | Cambridge classical studies
|
| Schlagworte: | |
| Tags: |
Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
|
Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction -- Bilingualism and language contact in written texts -- Alphabets, epigraphy and orthography -- Dedicatory inscriptions -- Curse tablets -- Legal texts -- Official inscriptions, coins, funerary inscriptions, stamps and graffiti -- Conclusions -- Appendix 1: catalogue of sites -- Appendix 2: dating of inscriptions and concordances. "In pre-Roman Italy and Sicily, dozens of languages and writing systems competed and interacted, and bilingualism was the norm. Using frameworks from epigraphy, archaeology and the sociolinguistics of language contact, this book explores the relationship between Greek and Oscan, two of the most widely spoken languages in the south of the peninsula. Dr McDonald undertakes a new analysis of the entire corpus of South Oscan texts written in Lucania, Bruttium and Messana, including dedications, curse tablets, laws, funerary texts and graffiti. She demonstrates that genre and domain are critical to understanding where and when Greek was used within Oscan-speaking communities, and how ancient bilinguals exploited the social meaning of their languages in their writing. This book also offers a cutting-edge example of how to build the fullest possible picture of bilingualism in fragmentary languages across the ancient world." -- |
|---|---|
| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 276-294. - Indexe |
| Beschreibung: | xix, 306 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781107503403 978-1-107-50340-3 9781107103832 978-1-107-10383-2 |