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Migration, mobility and language contact in and around the ancient Mediterranean / edited by James Clackson, Patrick James, Katherine McDonald, Livia Tagliapietra, Nicholas Zair.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cambridge classical studies.
- Cambridge classical studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Languages in contact--Mediterranean Region--History.
- Languages in contact.
- Multilingualism--Mediterranean Region--History.
- Multilingualism.
- Historical linguistics--Mediterranean Region.
- Historical linguistics.
- Classical antiquities.
- Inscriptions--Mediterranean Region--History.
- Inscriptions.
- Human beings--Migrations--History--To 1500.
- Human beings.
- Mediterranean Region--Languages.
- Mediterranean Region.
- Mediterranean Region--Antiquities.
- Mediterranean Region--Emigration and immigration--History--To 1500.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxi, 354 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Other Title:
- Migration, Mobility & Language Contact in & around the Ancient Mediterranean
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- Migration, Mobility and Language Contact in and around the Ancient Mediterranean is the first volume to show the different ways in which surviving linguistic evidence can be used to track movements of people in the ancient world. Eleven chapters cover a number of case studies, which span the period from the seventh century BC to the fourth century AD, ranging from Spain to Egypt, from Sicily to Pannonia. The book includes detailed study of epigraphic and literary evidence written in Latin and Greek, as well as work on languages which are not so well documented, such as Etruscan and Oscan. There is a subject index and an index of works and inscriptions cited.
- Contents:
- Inter-ethnic mobility in pre-Roman Etruria : the contribution of onomastics / Daniele F. Maras
- Elusive migrants of ancient Italy / Elena Isayev
- The language of mobile craftsmen in the Western Mediterranean / Katherine McDonald & James Clackson
- Lost and found in transmission : the creation of the Oscan alphabet / Karin W. Tikkanen
- Mobility and orthography : a contextualisation of variant spellings in the Oscan : a contextualisation of variant spellings in the Greek alphabet / Livia Tagliapietra
- The Mamertini in Messina : mobility, migration and mercenaries / Nicholas Zair
- Migration, identity, and multilingualism in late Hellenistic Delos / Francesco Rovai
- Interpretes, negotiatores and the Roman army : mobile professionals and their languages / Rachel Mairs
- 'Hoc primvs vent : Italians and others in Egypt before the Caesars / Patrick James
- Population, migration and language in the city of Rome / Olivia Elder.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 May 2020).
- ISBN:
- 1-108-80294-X
- 1-108-80729-1
- 1-108-76394-4
- OCLC:
- 1170835710
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