ISBN:
9781009327633
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Cambridge classical studies
DDC:
471/.52
Keywords:
Latin language Orthography and spelling
;
Latin language - Orthography and spelling
Abstract:
This book makes use of digital corpora to give in-depth details of the history and development of the spelling of Latin. It focusses on sub-elite texts in the Roman empire, and reveals that sophisticated education in this area was not restricted to those at the top of society. Nicholas Zair studies the history of particular orthographic features and traces their usage in a range of texts which give insight into everyday writers of Latin: including scribes and soldiers at Vindolanda, slaves at Pompeii, members of the Praetorian Guard, and writers of curse tablets. In doing so, he problematises the use of 'old-fashioned' spelling in dating inscriptions, provides important new information on sound-change in Latin, and shows how much can be gained from a detailed sociolinguistic analysis of ancient texts
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover -- Half-title page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Note on the Text -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- What This Book Is About -- Sub-elite Education in Literacy -- Defining 'Old-fashioned' Spelling -- Standard and Non-standard Spelling -- Structure of the Book -- Methodology -- Scribes, Writers and Authors -- Finding and Counting Old-fashioned Spelling -- The Sub-elite Corpora -- The Tablets of the Sulpicii (TPSulp.) -- The Tablets of Caecilius Jucundus (CIL 4.3340)
Description / Table of Contents:
The Tablets from Herculaneum (TH2) -- The Tablets from London (WT) -- The Vindonissa Tablets (T. Vindon.) -- The Vindolanda Tablets (Tab. Vindol.) -- The Bu Njem Ostraca (O. BuNjem) -- Papyrus and Parchment from Dura Europos (P. Dura) -- Graffiti from the Paedagogium -- Curse Tablets (Kropp) -- Letters (CEL) -- Funerary Inscriptions from the Isola Sacra (IS) -- Writers on Language -- A Sketch of the Latin Vowel System through Time -- Part I Old-fashioned Spellings -- Chapter 2 for /ae̯/ -- Chapter 3 and for /iː/ -- for /iː/ -- for /iː/ -- Chapter 4 for /u
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 5 for /uː/ -- Chapter 6 Alternation of and -- /u/ and /i/ in Initial Syllables after /l/ and before a Labial -- /u/ and /i/ in Medial Syllables before a Labial -- Chapter 7 for /we/ before a Coronal -- Chapter 8 and for /wu/ and /uu/, and and for /kwu/ -- Chapter 9 Double Letters to Write Long Vowels -- Chapter 10 for /g/ -- Chapter 11 for /jj/ -- Chapter 12 before /a(ː)/ and before /u(ː)/ -- before /a(ː)/ -- before /u(ː)/ -- Chapter 13 for /k/ before Back Vowels -- Chapter 14 for /ks
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 15 Geminates and Singletons -- and -- and -- Singletons for Geminate Consonants after Original Long Vowels -- Chapter 16 spepondi -- Chapter 17 popl- and pupl- for publ- -- Part II Apices and i-longa -- Chapter 18 Apices and i-longa : Introduction -- Chapter 19 Apices and i-longa in the Isola Sacra Inscriptions -- Chapter 20 Apices in the Vindolanda Tablets -- Chapter 21 Apices in the Tablets of the Sulpicii -- Chapter 22 Apex Use in the Vindolanda and TPSulp. Tablets in Comparison -- Chapter 23 Apices in the Tablets from Herculaneum
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 24 i-longa in the Tablets of the Sulpicii and the Tablets from Herculaneum -- Chapter 25 Conclusions -- Old-Fashioned Spelling? Problems and Different Histories -- Optional Spellings and Sub-elite Education -- The Education of Scribes and Stonemasons -- Optional Spellings: Evidence for Sound Change -- Appendix: and in Catullus -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index