The Blackwell history of the Latin language / James Clackson and Geoffrey Horrocks.
James Clackson
Book"Languages show variations according to the social class of speakers, and Latin was no exception, as readers of Petronius are aware. The Romance languages have traditionally been regarded as developing out of a 'language of the common people' (Vulgar Latin), but studies of modern languages demonstrate that linguistic change does not merely come, in the social sense, 'from below'. There is change from above, as prestige usages work their way down the social scale, and change may also occur across the social classes. This book is a history of many of the developments undergone by the Latin language as it changed into Romance, demonstrating the varying social levels at which change was initiated. About thirty topics are dealt with, many of them more systematically than ever before. Discussions often start in the early Republic with Plautus, and the book is as much about the literary language as about informal varieties"--Provided by publisher.
Title |
Social variation and the Latin language / J. N. Adams. |
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Publisher |
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press |
Creation Date |
2013 |
Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 872-910) and indexes. |
Content |
Machine generated contents note: Preface Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction: 'Vulgar Latin' and social variation Part II. Phonology and Orthography: 2. Phonology: introductory remarks 3. Vowel system 4. Diphthongs 5. Syncope 6. Hiatus 7. The aspirate 8. Final consonants 9. Contact assimilation 10. B/V 11. Phonology: conclusions Part III. Case and Prepositions: 12. The nominative and accusative 13. Oblique cases and prepositional expressions 14. Miscellaneous uses of the accusative 15. Locative, directional and separative expressions: some variations and conflations 16. The reflexive dative 17. Prepositions and comparative expressions 18. Case and prepositions: some conclusions Part IV. Aspects of Nominal, Pronominal and Adverbial Morphology and Syntax: 19. Gender 20. Demonstrative pronouns: some morphological variations 21. The definite article and demonstrative pronouns 22. Suffixation (mainly adjectival) and non-standard Latin 23. Compound adverbs and prepositions Part V. Aspects of Verbal Morphology and Syntax: 24. Past participle + habeo 25. The periphrastic future and conditional and present for future 26. Reflexive constructions and the passive 27. The ablative of the gerund and the present participle Part VI. Aspects of Subordination: 28. Reported speech 29. Indirect questions: Part VII. Aspects of the Lexicon and Word Order: 30. The lexicon, a case study: anatomical terms 31. The lexicon: suppletion and the verb 'go' 32. Word order, a case study: infinitive position with auxiliary verbs Part VIII. Summing Up: 33. Final conclusions. |
Extent |
xxi, 933 pages 24 cm. |
Language |
English |
National Library system number |
990035449410205171 |
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