Roman Perspectives on Linguistic Diversity

Guardians of a Changing Language
Herausgeber: Gitner, Adam

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays explores how Roman scholars and grammarians addressed different kinds of linguistic diversity within the Roman Republic and Empire. It is a follow-up to Robert Kaster's Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 157mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 574g
• ISBN-13: 9780197611975
• ISBN-10: 0197611974
• Artikelnr.: 66467004

Autorenporträt

Adam Gitner is a lexicographer at the Thesaurus linguae Latinae (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities) and docent in historical linguistics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Contributors
* Short Title Abbreviations
* Preface
* Adam Gitner
* Introduction
* 1. Counterfeit and Coinage: Gresham's Law and the Grammarian
* James E. G. Zetzel
* Part I: Varro
* 2. Varro the Conservative?
* Katharina Volk
* 3. Varro and the Sabine Language in the De lingua Latina
* Wolfgang D. C. de Melo
* 4. Varro's Word Trees
* Andreas T. Zanker
* Part II: Professional Grammarians
* 5. The Use of Greek in Diomedes' Ars grammatica
* Bruno Rochette
* 6. The Grammarian Consentius on Language Change and Variation
* Tommaso Mari
* 7. Antiquus = squalidus? Pompeius' Attitude towards Antiquity
* Anna Zago
* 8. T(w)o Be or Not T(w)o Be: The dualis numerus according to Latin
Grammarians up to the Early Middle Ages
* Tim Denecker
* 9. Anonymous Grammatical Scholarship: Insights from an Annotated
Juvenal Codex from Egypt
* Alessandro Garcea and Maria Chiara Scappaticcio
* Part III: Scholars and Intellectuals
* 10. Civic Metaphors for Lexical Borrowing from Seneca to Gellius
* Adam Gitner
* 11. Grammar and Grammarians, Linguistic and Social Change from
Gellius to Macrobius
* Leofranc Holford-Strevens
* 12. Language Variation and Grammatical Theory in Roman Legal Texts
* Rolando Ferri
* Epilogue
* The (Very Fragile) Origins of Guardians of Language
* Robert A. Kaster
* Prosopographical Addenda to Guardians of Language
* Robert A. Kaster
* Bibliography
* General Index
* Index of Notable Passages