Roman Perspectives on Linguistic Diversity (eBook, PDF)

Guardians of a Changing Language
Redaktion: Gitner, Adam

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Thirty years ago Robert Kaster's Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity investigated ancient Greco-Roman grammarians as social agents within their social and cultural context. This collection of twelve essays develops that line of inquiry by focusing on one dimension of their activity: how Roman grammarians - as well as scholars and intellectuals more broadly - described, made sense of, and resisted linguistic diversity within the Roman republic and empire. This includes social and diachronic variety within Latin as well as multilingual contact with Greek and other Mediterranean languages. The essays cover five centuries of Latin reflection on language, from Varro to the fifth or sixth century CE. The book concludes with an autobiographical Epilogue by Robert Kaster about the origins of Guardians of Language and updates to the prosopography of known ancient grammarians found in Guardians.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197611982
• Artikelnr.: 69255833

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