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Book SynopsisFor a dead language, Latin has achieved an elevated stature unmatched by few living languages -- its cultural cachet evidenced through countless terms and phrases utilized in Western law, medicine, and science.
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations viii
Notes on Contributors x
Abbreviations of Ancient Authors and Works xiv
Abbreviations of Modern Sources xx
Symbols Used xxiv
Linguistic and Other Abbreviations xxv
1 Introduction 1
James Clackson
PART I Sources 7
2 The Latin Alphabet and Orthography 9
Rex Wallace
3 Latin Inscriptions and Documents 29
James Clackson
4 Latin Manuscripts and Textual Traditions 40
Bruce Gibson
5 Romance Languages as a Source for Spoken Latin 59
Roger Wright
PART II The Language 81
6 The Sounds of Latin: Phonology 83
Matthew McCullagh
7 Latin Prosody and Metrics 92
Benjamin W. Fortson IV
8 The Forms of Latin: Inflectional Morphology 105
James Clackson
9 Latin Syntax 118
Geoffrey Horrocks
10 Latin Vocabulary 144
Michèle Fruyt
11 Word-Formation in Classical Latin 157
Michèle Fruyt
12 Latin Particles and the Grammar of Discourse 176
Caroline Kroon
PART III Latin Through Time 197
13 The Historical Background to Latin within the Indo-European Language Family 199
Benjamin W. Fortson IV
14 Archaic and Old Latin 220
John Penney
15 Classical Latin 236
James Clackson
16 Late Latin 257
J.N. Adams
17 Medieval Latin 284
Greti Dinkova-Bruun
18 Neo-Latin 303
David Butterfield
PART IV Literary Registers of Latin 319
19 The Language of Roman Comedy 321
Wolfgang de Melo
20 The Language of Latin Epic and Lyric Poetry 344
Rolando Ferri
21 The Language of Latin Verse Satire 367
Anna Chahoud
22 The Language of Roman Oratory and Rhetoric 384
J.G.F. Powell
23 The Language of Latin Historiography 408
Christina Shuttleworth Kraus
24 Epistolary Latin 426
Hilla Halla-aho
25 Latin as a Technical and Scientific Language 445
Thorsten Fögen
26 Legal Latin 464
J.G.F. Powell
27 Christian Latin 485
Philip Burton
PART V Latin in Social and Political Contexts 503
28 The Social Dialects of Latin 505
James Clackson
29 Latin and Other Languages: Societal and Individual Bilingualism 527
Alex Mullen
30 Language Policies in the Roman Republic and Empire 549
Bruno Rochette
31 Latin Inside and Outside of Rome 564
Giovanbattista Galdi
References 582
Index Locorum 619
Index 627
