Oscan in Southern Italy and Sicily
Evaluating Language Contact in a Fragmentary Corpus
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Word Count
81,250 words, Guess
Page Count
325 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139781107103832
- ISBN-101107103835
- Library of Congress Control Number2015009423
- OCLC Control Number904905230
- Better World Books9781107103832
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- Open LibraryOL28570642M
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- LCCPA2452 .M37 2015
Description
"In pre-Roman Italy and Sicily, dozens of languages and writing systems competed and interacted, and bilingualism was the norm. Using frameworks from epigraphy, archaeology and the sociolinguistics of language contact, this book explores the relationship between Greek and Oscan, two of the most widely spoken languages in the south of the peninsula. Dr McDonald undertakes a new analysis of the entire corpus of South Oscan texts written in Lucania, Bruttium and Messana, including dedications, curse tablets, laws, funerary texts and graffiti. She demonstrates that genre and domain are critical to understanding where and when Greek was used within Oscan-speaking communities, and how ancient bilinguals exploited the social meaning of their languages in their writing. This book also offers a cutting-edge example of how to build the fullest possible picture of bilingualism in fragmentary languages across the ancient world." --
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