Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds

Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Figures......Page 9
Tables......Page 13
Notes on contributors......Page 14
Preface and acknowledgements......Page 15
Abbreviations......Page 17
1 THE ALLURE OF REGINA......Page 21
2 CROSSING BOUNDARIES......Page 25
3 FASHIONABLE BUT NOT PRACTICABLE?......Page 31
4 INTERMINABLE TERMINOLOGIES: INDIVIDUAL BILINGUALISM......Page 35
5 INTERPRETING BILINGUAL PHENOMENA......Page 41
6 SOCIETAL BILINGUALISM......Page 43
7 MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO MULTILINGUALISM......Page 49
1 STABLE AND UNSTABLE MULTILINGUALISM IN THE ANCIENT WORLD......Page 56
2 STABLE AND UNSTABLE BILINGUALISM IN ITALY......Page 58
3 STABLE AND UNSTABLE BILINGUALISM IN GAUL......Page 62
4 VERNACULAR LANGUAGES IN THE EASTERN EMPIRE: ANATOLIA......Page 65
5 VERNACULAR LANGUAGES IN THE EASTERN EMPIRE: STABLE BILINGUALISM IN SYRIA AND EGYPT......Page 67
6 DOMAINS OF LANGUAGE USE IN EGYPT......Page 70
7 A SOCIOLINGUISTIC MODEL FOR THE ROMAN EMPIRE?......Page 72
8 CONCLUSION......Page 77
CHAPTER 3 Why did Coptic fail where Aramaic succeeded?......Page 78
1 INTRODUCTION......Page 97
2 LANGUAGES AND SCRIPTS OF THE PENINSULA......Page 99
3.1 Bilingual inscriptions......Page 103
3.2 Texts displaying bilingual phenomena......Page 105
3.3 Loanwords......Page 107
4 INDIRECT EVIDENCE......Page 110
4.2 Epigraphic influence from Greek......Page 111
4.3 Epigraphic influence from Latin......Page 113
5 PERSONAL NAMES......Page 116
6 IBERIAN IN THE EBRO VALLEY......Page 118
7 FURTHER PROSPECTS......Page 124
1 PETOSIRIS’ DRAFT-MEMORANDUM......Page 126
2 APPROACHING THE PROBLEM OF EGYPTIAN INTERFERENCE......Page 129
3 ASSEMBLING LIKELY SUSPECTS......Page 132
4 INTERPRETING THE DATA-SAMPLE......Page 135
5 PROVISIONAL OBSERVATIONS ON EGYPTIAN GREEK TEXTS......Page 137
6 CONCLUDING REMARKS......Page 142
1 THE FORMS OF RITUAL LANGUAGE......Page 144
2 SACRED LANGUAGES AND RITUAL CODE-SWITCHING......Page 147
2.1 Ritual uses of Greek......Page 148
3 RITUAL TAG-SWITCHING......Page 151
4 OPAQUENESS OF MEANING......Page 153
4.1 Opaqueness of meaning and Hebrew......Page 154
4.2 Opaqueness of meaning and Irish......Page 156
5 VOCES MAGICAE......Page 157
6 CONCLUSION......Page 159
1 INTRODUCTION......Page 161
2 TRANSLATION AND BILINGUALISM......Page 162
3 TYPOLOGIES OF TRANSLATION TECHNIQUES: GENERAL STRATEGIES......Page 163
4 -LATIN’ ELTICIS, CATELTICIS, ALIOTICIS......Page 166
5 BILINGUALISM AND CODE-SWITCHING VS BORROWING VS INTERFERENCE......Page 170
6 FURTHER DISCUSSION OF -CODE-SWITCHING’ AND -BORROWING’......Page 177
7 TERMINOLOGICAL STATUS AND INTEGRATION OF LOANTERMS......Page 180
8 NEW TYPES IN THE LATIN ALEXANDER......Page 183
9 NON-GREEK USE OF GREEK WORDS......Page 184
10 CONCLUSION......Page 188
INTRODUCTION......Page 192
2 EVIDENCE PREVIOUSLY DISCUSSED......Page 194
3 GREEK IN IRISH ETYMOLOGICAL TRACTS......Page 198
4 CONCLUSIONS: KNOWLEDGE OF GREEK......Page 210
1 CAROLINGIAN GAUL AND IRELAND......Page 213
2 GLASTONBURY......Page 217
3 EARLY MEDIEVAL CORNWALL......Page 220
4 SOUTH-EAST WALES......Page 226
5 EARLY INSULAR INSCRIPTIONS FROM WEST WALES......Page 234
6 ROMAN BRITAIN......Page 238
1 INTRODUCTION......Page 245
2 CONSTRUCTING MEANINGS AND CONTEXTS......Page 248
3 -SCHOOL’ TEXTS FROM GRAECO-ROMAN EGYPT......Page 250
4 DEIR EL-BAHRI: ALPHABET TEXTS AND THE MULTIPLE REUSE OF SPACES......Page 255
5 BENI HASAN AND THE BILINGUAL ASPECT OF LEARNING......Page 275
6 CONCLUDING REMARKS......Page 283
1 NEO-PUNIC AND LATIN IN THE EPIGRAPHIC LANDSCAPE OF ROMAN NORTH AFRICA......Page 285
2 BUILDING INSCRIPTIONS FROM LEPCIS MAGNA......Page 292
3 BUILDING INSCRIPTIONS FROM SABRATHA AND OEA......Page 319
4 BILINGUAL AND TRILINGUAL FUNERARY INSCRIPTIONS OF THE ROMAN PERIOD......Page 322
5 NEO-PUNIC BUILDING INSCRIPTIONS OUTSIDE TRIPOLITANIA......Page 326
6 LATINO-PUNIC INSCRIPTIONS......Page 327
7 CONCLUSION......Page 332
CHAPTER 12 Cultures as languages and languages as cultures......Page 337
Bibliography......Page 355
General Index\n......Page 400