
Allogl??ssoi
Multilingualism and Minority Languages in Ancient Europe
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Allogl??ssoi
Multilingualism and Minority Languages in Ancient Europe
About this book
The studies presented in this volume deal with numerous and often undervalued aspects of multilingualism in Ancient Europe and the Mediterranean. Primarily, but not exclusively, they explore the impact of the great transnational languages, Greek and Latin, on numerous indigenous languages: the latter mostly disappeared apart from a number of written texts, often not well comprehensible, but at the same time provided the dominant languages with loanwords, some of them destined to enduring success. Moreover, Greek and Latin were remarkably affected by their mutual contact, with the complication that Greek was notoriously far from monolithic, and in some areas its different dialects intermingled with each other and with the local languages. The case studies of this volume were conducted in the frame of a European HERA research on Multilingualism and Minority Languages in Ancient Europe, which covered a number of very diverse areas, with an emphasis on Sicily and Southern Italy, Illyria, Epirus, Macedonia, Thrace, Egypt and Asia Minor (also in medieval and modern times). This book makes indispensable reading for anyone with an interest in multilingualism and language contact in Ancient Europe.
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Table of contents
- Preface
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Priscian, the divisio graeca and the History of Word-formation in Graeco-Roman Grammar
- Dream Language and Dream Ideology: Echoes from the Memphis Serapeum
- A Tale of Coins and Suffixes: Syracusan Greek ἑξᾶς, Latin sextāns, and Congeners
- Dialects in Contact in the Ancient Kingdom of Macedon
- Onomastic Formulae from N. Epirus and S. Illyria: Lingustic and Sociocultural Connotations
- Dialect Contact and Koineization: The Case of the Greek Colonies of Aegean Thrace
- The Cappadocian Phrasal Compound παιρ-παίνω [per-péno] “Take Away” as an Example of Turkish Pattern Replication
- Ποσειδῶν, Ποσδαν, Paestum, and a Greek God in Lucanian Attire
- Motion and Posture Verbs in Multiverb Constructions: Evidence from the New Testament
- Contact and Interaction between Greeks and Messapians
- The Etymology and Semantics of Oscan pukam
- The Messapic Inscription from Grotta Poesia MLM 3 Ro: Analysis with Frame Semantics
- Latin uncia à la Heron
- List of Contributors
- General Index