The Blackwell History of the Latin Language - James Clackson, Geoffrey Horrocks
- Аннотация
- Preface
- Chapter I Latin and Indo-European
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 The IE Language Family
- 1.3 Reconstructed PIE
- 1.4 Latin and IE
- 1.4.1 Phonology
- 1.4.2 Latin morphosyntactic developments from PIE
- 1.4.3 Nominal declensions
- 1.4.4 The verbal system
- 1.4.5 Syntax
- 1.5 The Position of Latin within the IE family
- Chapter II The Languages of Italy
- 2.1 Latin and the Languages of Italy
- 2.2 The Central-Italian Koiné, 700–400 BC
- 2.3 The Sabellian Languages
- 2.3.1 South Picene
- 2.3.2 Umbrian
- 2.3.3 Oscan
- 2.4 Sabellian and Latin
- 2.4.1 Arguments for the Italic theory
- 2.4.2 Arguments against the Italic theory
- Chapter III The Background to Standardization
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 How and Why Standard Languages Develop
- 3.3 The Roman Context
- 3.3.1 Rome and Italy
- 3.3.2 Rome and the Mediterranean
- 3.3.3 Language diversity and language ‘death’ in the Roman Empire
- 3.4 Conclusion
- Chapter IV ‘Old’ Latin and its Varieties in the Period c.400–150 BC
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Some Characteristic Markers of ‘Old Latin’
- 4.2.1 Phonology and orthography Vowels and diphthongs
- 4.2.2 Morphology
- 4.2.3 Syntax, lexicon and style
- 4.3 An Example: The Columna Rostrata
- 4.4 Dialectal Variation in Latin in the Period c.400–c.150 BC
- 4.4.1 Latin outside Latium
- 4.4.2 Latin within Latium: Praenestine
- 4.4.3 Some examples
- 4.5 Conclusion
- Chapter V The Road to Standardization: Roman Latin of the Third and Second Centuries BC
- 5.1 The Typology of Roman Inscriptions
- 5.2 Dated Roman Inscriptions of the Third and Second Centuries BC
- 5.3 Two Undated Inscriptions: The Scipio Epitaphs CIL I2 6/7 and I2 8/9
- 5.3.1 Old Latin prosody and the Saturnian verse
- 5.3.2 The earliest Scipio epitaphs
- 5.4 Dated Inscriptions of the Second Century: The Official Latin of Senatusconsulta
- 5.5 Carmina and their Impact on Early Latin Prose
- 5.6 Early Latin Poetry
- 5.7 Conclusion
- Chapter VI Elite Latin in the Late Republic and Early Empire
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 The Encounter with Greek
- 6.2.1 Background
- 6.2.2 Some specifics
- 6.3 Cicero
- 6.4 Development and Selection
- 6.4.1 Introduction
- 6.4.2 Word formation
- 6.4.3 Syntax
- 6.5 A General Overview of Classical Literary Latin
- 6.5.1 The language of Classical Latin prose
- 6.5.2 The language of Classical Latin poetry
- 6.6 Conclusion
- Chapter VII Sub-Elite Latin in the Empire
- 7.1 Introduction: The spread of Latin
- 7.2 Bilingualism
- 7.3 The Homogeneity of Spoken Latin
- 7.4 Four Individuals Speaking and Writing Latin in the Early Empire
- 7.4.1 Gaius Nouius Eunus and changes in the phonology of Latin
- 7.4.2 Chrauttius: a non-native speaker?
- 7.4.3 Claudius Terentianus, bilingualism and developments in syntax and morphology
- 7.4.4 Iasucthan and the language of verse
- Chapter VIII Latin in Late Antiquity and Beyond
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Latin, Romance and Proto-Romance
- 8.3 From Latin to Romance
- 8.3.1 Phonology
- 8.3.2 Morphology and Syntax
- 8.3.3 Vocabulary
- 8.4 Latin and Christianity in the Late Roman Empire
- 8.5 Latin after the Collapse of the Roman Empire
- Glossary