Bilingualism and the Latin language /

Bilingualism and the Latin language /

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Author / Creator:	Adams, J. N. (James Noel)
Imprint:	New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Description:	1 online resource (xxviii, 836 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Latin language -- Foreign elements. Languages in contact -- Rome -- History -- To 500. Latin language -- Influence on foreign languages. Latin language -- Foreign words and phrases. Bilingualism -- Rome -- History -- To 1500. Code switching (Linguistics) -- Rome. Bilingualism. Code switching (Linguistics) Languages in contact. Latin language -- Foreign elements. Latin language -- Foreign words and phrases. Latin language -- Influence on foreign languages. Rome (Empire) History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11130064

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ISBN:	0511042736 9780511042737 9780511482960 0511482965 1280434430 9781280434433 0511054483 9780511054488 9780521731515 0521731518 9780521817714 0521817714
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 767-804) and indexes. Print version record.
Summary:	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, down to about the fourth century AD) in the light of sociolinguistic discussions of bilingual issues. The general theme of the work is the nature of the contact between Latin and numerous other languages spoken in the Roman world. Among the many issues discussed three are prominent: code-switching (the practice of switching between two languages in the course of a single utterance) and its motivation, language contact as a cause of change in one or both of the languages in contact, and the part played by language choice and language switching in the establishment of personal and group identities.
Other form:	Print version: Adams, J.N. (James Noel). Bilingualism and the Latin language. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003 0521817714

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. Languages in contact with Latin
2. Code-switching
3. Bilingualism, linguistic diversity and language change
4. Latin in Egypt
5. Bilingualism at Delos
6. Bilingualism at La Graufesenque
7. The Latin of a learner (P. Amh. II 26): a case study
8. Some concluding remarks