Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xix, 828 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780511482977
Content:
Classical Latin appears to be without regional dialects, yet Latin evolved in little more than a millennium into a variety of different languages (the Romance languages: Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese etc.). Was regional diversity apparent from the earliest times, obscured perhaps by the standardisation of writing, or did some catastrophic event in late antiquity cause the language to vary? These questions have long intrigued Latinists and Romance philologists, struck by the apparent uniformity of Latin alongside the variety of Romance. This book, first published in 2007, establishes that Latin was never geographically uniform. The changing patterns of diversity and the determinants of variation are examined from the time of the early inscriptions of Italy, through to late antiquity and the beginnings of the Romance dialects in the western Roman provinces. This is the most comprehensive treatment ever undertaken of the regional diversification of Latin throughout its history in the Roman period
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-0-521-88149-4
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-107-68458-4
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ancient Studies
Keywords:
Latein
;
Diversifikation
;
Altitalienisch
;
Geschichte 200 v. Chr.-600
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511482977
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