This book deals systematically with communication problems in the Roman world where numerous languages apart from Latin and Greek were spoken. How did the Romans communicate with their subjects in the remoter parts of the Empire? What linguistic policies did they pursue? Differing forms of bilingualism developed, which had a significant effect on the way the Romans and their subjects thought, spoke and wrote. A wide range of cultural, historical and linguistic questions concerning the varying developments in bilingualism are addressed.
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"J.N. Adams solidifies with this imposing book his reputation as the authority on the Latin language."
New England Classical Journal
"...[a] splendid new book..."
The London Review of Books
"The heart of the book comprises a survey of languages in contact with Latin, a detailed analysis of code switching, and a study of the linguistic features Latin developed in contact with other languages. Adams also considers such topics as Latin in Egypt, bilingualism at Delos, and the recently edited bilinguals from the Gallic-Latin pottery at La Gaufesenque. The book has been beautifully produced by Cambridge University Press and is remarkably error-free."
Andrew R. Dyck, Los Angeles
"A marvelously informative study of the contacts between Latin and other languages in the Roman world, exploring the linguistic diversity of the empire on a scale, and at a depth, that no one has done before ... An extraordinarily impressive book and a masterful collection of material [demonstrating] just how central the study of language is to any proper understanding of the ancient world."
The Times Literary Supplement
" ... J. N. Adams's splendid new book ... is essential for all who would study the linguistic situation in the Roman world."
London Review of Books
"... terrific book ...."
JACT
"... exhaustive, theoretically current, philologically exacting, and methodologically rigorous - a landmark publication."
Language in Society
"Among the most enjoyable features of his book are the unexpected, sometimes minor and obscure, texts that turn out to provide material for innovative study and important conclusions."
The Linguist
New England Classical Journal
"...[a] splendid new book..."
The London Review of Books
"The heart of the book comprises a survey of languages in contact with Latin, a detailed analysis of code switching, and a study of the linguistic features Latin developed in contact with other languages. Adams also considers such topics as Latin in Egypt, bilingualism at Delos, and the recently edited bilinguals from the Gallic-Latin pottery at La Gaufesenque. The book has been beautifully produced by Cambridge University Press and is remarkably error-free."
Andrew R. Dyck, Los Angeles
"A marvelously informative study of the contacts between Latin and other languages in the Roman world, exploring the linguistic diversity of the empire on a scale, and at a depth, that no one has done before ... An extraordinarily impressive book and a masterful collection of material [demonstrating] just how central the study of language is to any proper understanding of the ancient world."
The Times Literary Supplement
" ... J. N. Adams's splendid new book ... is essential for all who would study the linguistic situation in the Roman world."
London Review of Books
"... terrific book ...."
JACT
"... exhaustive, theoretically current, philologically exacting, and methodologically rigorous - a landmark publication."
Language in Society
"Among the most enjoyable features of his book are the unexpected, sometimes minor and obscure, texts that turn out to provide material for innovative study and important conclusions."
The Linguist
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This is the first book to deal systematically with problems of communication in the Roman world, in which numerous languages apart from Latin and Greek were spoken. How did the Romans communicate with their subjects in the remoter parts of the Empire? What linguistic policies, if any, did they pursue? Differing forms of bilingualism developed, which had a significant effect on the way both the Romans and their subjects thought, spoke and wrote. Over a dozen languages are considered, and a wide range of cultural, historical and linguistic questions addressed.
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Those bilinguals who have attracted most attention among classicists, implicitly at least, might be called in the current jargon 'elite bilinguals', that is members of the educated classes who had freely chosen to become bilingual. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
morphological interference, imperfect competence, filiation formula, imperfect literacy, plain genitive, syntactic imitation, funerary formulae, orthographic interference, latinate features, epigrafia etrusca, phonetic interference, imperfect learners, bilingual epitaph, bilingual dimension, military provenance, bilingual interference, formulaic parts, poor competence, consular date, nominative inflection, military inscriptions, libens merito, syntactic interference, graphemic form, dowry list Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Amadasi Guzzo, Shackleton Bailey, Levi Della Vida, Mons Claudianus, Res Gestae, Claudius Terentianus, Roman Greek, Social War, Colossus of Memnon, Septimius Severus, Porzio Gernia, Roman Empire, South Shields, African Latin, Agora of the Italians, Gallic Latin, Syringes of Thebes, Marcellus of Bordeaux, Marcius Rex, Asia Minor, Claudius Felix, Greek-speaking Roman, Magna Graecia, Pliny the Elder, Amadusi Guzzo New!
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Those bilinguals who have attracted most attention among classicists, implicitly at least, might be called in the current jargon 'elite bilinguals', that is members of the educated classes who had freely chosen to become bilingual. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
morphological interference, imperfect competence, filiation formula, imperfect literacy, plain genitive, syntactic imitation, funerary formulae, orthographic interference, latinate features, epigrafia etrusca, phonetic interference, imperfect learners, bilingual epitaph, bilingual dimension, military provenance, bilingual interference, formulaic parts, poor competence, consular date, nominative inflection, military inscriptions, libens merito, syntactic interference, graphemic form, dowry list Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Amadasi Guzzo, Shackleton Bailey, Levi Della Vida, Mons Claudianus, Res Gestae, Claudius Terentianus, Roman Greek, Social War, Colossus of Memnon, Septimius Severus, Porzio Gernia, Roman Empire, South Shields, African Latin, Agora of the Italians, Gallic Latin, Syringes of Thebes, Marcellus of Bordeaux, Marcius Rex, Asia Minor, Claudius Felix, Greek-speaking Roman, Magna Graecia, Pliny the Elder, Amadusi Guzzo New!
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- Bilingualism in Ancient Society: Language Contact and the Written Word by J.N. Adams in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Introduction to Vulgar Latin, An by C. H. Grandgent in Back Matter
- The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire: Volume 1, AD 260-395 by A. H. M. Jones in Front Matter
- The Latin Sexual Vocabulary by J. N. Adams in Back Matter
- A. E. Housman (Poet to Poet) by A. E. Housman in Back Matter
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- Roman Manliness: "Virtus" and the Roman Republic by Myles McDonnell on page 77, and Back Matter
- English Literature and Ancient Languages by Kenneth Haynes in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Bilingualism in Ancient Society: Language Contact and the Written Word by J.N. Adams in Front Matter
- The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch by Raffaella Cribiore in Back Matter
- Classical Pasts: The Classical Traditions of Greece and Rome by James I. Porter in Back Matter
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