Alloglōssoi : Multilingualism and Minority Languages in Ancient Europe / Albio Cesare Cassio and Sara Kaczko.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cassio, Albio Cesare, editor.

Kaczko, Sara, editor.

Series:

Trends in classics - key perspectives on classical research ; Volume 2.

Trends in Classics - Greek and Latin Linguistics Series ; Volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Languages in contact--Europe--History--To 1500.

Languages in contact.

Languages in contact--Mediterranean Region--History--To 1500.

Multilingualism--Europe--History--To 1500.

Multilingualism.

Multilingualism--Mediterranean Region--History--To 1500.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Alloglо̄ssoi: Multilingualism and Minority Languages in Ancient Europe

Alloglossoi: multilingualism and minority languages in ancient Europe

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston, [2023]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110779684

3110779684