Colloquial and literary Latin
What is colloquial Latin? What can we learn about it from Roman literature, and how does an understanding of colloquial Latin enhance our appreciation of literature? This book sets out to answer such questions, beginning with examinations of how the term 'colloquial' has been used by lingu...
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2010
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction Eleanor / Dickey
- Colloquial language in linguistic studies / James Clackson
- Roman authors on colloquial language / Rolando Ferri and Philomen Probert
- Idiom(s) and literariness in classical literary criticism / Anna Chahoud
- Preliminary conclusions / Eleanor Dickey
- Possessive pronouns in Plautus / Wolfgang David Cirilo de Melo
- Greeting and farewell expressions as evidence for colloquial language: between literary and epigraphical texts / Paolo Poccetti
- Colloquial and literary language in early Roman tragedy / Hilla Halla-aho and Peter Kruschwitz
- The fragments of Cato's Origines / John Briscoe
- Hyperbaton and register in Cicero / J.G.F. Powell
- Notes on the language of Marcus Caelius Rufus / Harm Pinkster
- Syntactic colloquialism in Lucretius / Tobias Reinhardt
- Campaigning for utilitas: style, grammar and philosophy in C. Iulius Caesar / Andreas Willi
- The style of the Bellum Hispaniense and the evolution of Roman historiography / Jan Felix Gaertner
- Grist to the mill: the literary uses of the quotidian in Horace, Satire 1.5 / Richard F. Thomas
- Sermones deorum: divine discourse in Virgil's Aeneid / Stephen Harrison
- Petronius' linguistic resources / Martti Leiwo
- Parenthetical remarks in the Silvae / Kathleen Coleman
- Colloquial Latin in Martial's Epigrams / Nigel Kay
- Current and ancient colloquial in Gellius / Leofranc Holford-Strevens
- Forerunners of Romance -mente adverbs in Latin prose and poetry Brigitte Bauer
- Late sparsa collegimus: the influence of sources on the language of Jordanes / Giovanbattista Galdi
- The tale of Frodebert's Tail / Danuta Shanzer
- Colloquial Latin in the insular Latin scholastic colloquia? / Michael Lapidge
- Conversations in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica / Michael Winterbottom