Nicholas Zair

Orthographic Traditions and the Sub-elite in the Roman Empire (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009327657
• Artikelnr.: 68954128

Autorenporträt

NICHOLAS ZAIR is a Senior Lecturer in Classics (Classical Linguistics and Comparative Philology) at the University of Cambridge and Fellow in Classics and Linguistics at Peterhouse. He recently held a ProFutura Scientia Fellowship at SCAS (Uppsala) and CRASSH (Cambridge). He is also the author of The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Celtic (2012) and Oscan in the Greek Alphabet (Cambridge, 2016), and co-editor of Migration, Mobility and Language Contact in and around the Ancient Mediterranean (Cambridge, 2020).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction; Part I. Old-fashioned Spellings: 2. for
ä
; 3. and for
i:
; 4. for
u
; 5. for
u:
; 6. Alternation of and ; 7. for
we
before a coronal; 8. and for
wu
and
uu
, and and for
kwu
; 9. Double letters to write long vowels; 10. for
g
; 11. for
jj
; 12. before
(a:)
and before
u(:)
; 13. for
k
before back vowels; 14. for
ks
; 15. Geminates and singletons; 16. spepondi; 17. popl- and pupl- for publ-; Part II. Apices and i-longa: 18. Introduction; 19. Apices and i-longa in the Isola Sacra inscriptions; 20. Apices in the Vindolanda tablets; 21. Apices in the tablets of the Sulpicii; 22. Apex use in teh Vindolanda and TPSupl. tablets in comparison; 23. Apices in the tablets from Herculaneium; 24. I-longa in the tablets of the Sulpicii and the tablets from Herculaneum; 25. Conclusions; Appendix.