Social variation and the Latin language
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Social variation and the Latin language
Cambridge University Press, 2013
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  Miyagi
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  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 872-910) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Languages show variations according to the social class of speakers and Latin was no exception, as readers of Petronius are aware. The Romance languages have traditionally been regarded as developing out of a 'language of the common people' (Vulgar Latin), but studies of modern languages demonstrate that linguistic change does not merely come, in the social sense, 'from below'. There is change from above, as prestige usages work their way down the social scale, and change may also occur across the social classes. This book is a history of many of the developments undergone by the Latin language as it changed into Romance, demonstrating the varying social levels at which change was initiated. About thirty topics are dealt with, many of them more systematically than ever before. Discussions often start in the early Republic with Plautus, and the book is as much about the literary language as about informal varieties.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction: 'Vulgar Latin' and social variation
- Part II. Phonology and Orthography: 2. Phonology: introductory remarks
- 3. Vowel system
- 4. Diphthongs
- 5. Syncope
- 6. Hiatus
- 7. The aspirate
- 8. Final consonants
- 9. Contact assimilation
- 10. B/V
- 11. Phonology: conclusions
- Part III. Case and Prepositions: 12. The nominative and accusative
- 13. Oblique cases and prepositional expressions
- 14. Miscellaneous uses of the accusative
- 15. Locative, directional and separative expressions: some variations and conflations
- 16. The reflexive dative
- 17. Prepositions and comparative expressions
- 18. Case and prepositions: some conclusions
- Part IV. Aspects of Nominal, Pronominal and Adverbial Morphology and Syntax: 19. Gender
- 20. Demonstrative pronouns: some morphological variations
- 21. The definite article and demonstrative pronouns
- 22. Suffixation (mainly adjectival) and non-standard Latin
- 23. Compound adverbs and prepositions
- Part V. Aspects of Verbal Morphology and Syntax: 24. Past participle + habeo
- 25. The periphrastic future and conditional, and present for future
- 26. Reflexive constructions and the passive
- 27. The ablative of the gerund and the present participle
- Part VI. Aspects of Subordination: 28. Reported speech
- 29. Indirect questions
- Part VII. Aspects of the Lexicon and Word Order: 30. The lexicon, a case study: anatomical terms
- 31. The lexicon: suppletion and the verb 'go'
- 32. Word order, a case study: infinitive position with auxiliary verbs
- Part VIII. Summing Up: 33. Final conclusions.
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