Table of Contents

List of Illustrations. Notes on Contributors. Abbreviations of Ancient Authors and Works. Abbreviations of Modern Sources. Symbols Used. Linguistic and Other Abbreviations. 1 Introduction ( James Clackson). PART I Sources. 2 The Latin Alphabet and Orthography ( Rex Wallace). 3 Latin Inscriptions and Documents ( James Clackson). 4 Latin Manuscripts and Textual Traditions ( Bruce Gibson). 5 Romance Languages as a Source for Spoken Latin ( Roger Wright). PART II The Language. 6 The Sounds of Latin: Phonology ( Matthew McCullagh). 7 Latin Prosody and Metrics ( Benjamin W. Fortson IV). 8 The Forms of Latin: Inflectional Morphology ( James Clackson). 9 Latin Syntax ( Geoffrey Horrocks). 10 Latin Vocabulary ( Michele Fruyt). 11 Word-Formation in Classical Latin ( Michele Fruyt). 12 Latin Particles and the Grammar of Discourse ( Caroline Kroon). PART III Latin Through Time. 13 The Historical Background to Latin within the Indo-European Language Family ( Benjamin W. Fortson IV). 14 Archaic and Old Latin ( John Penney). 15 Classical Latin ( James Clackson). 16 Late Latin ( J.N. Adams). 17 Medieval Latin ( Greti Dinkova-Bruun). 18 Neo-Latin ( David Butterfield). PART IV Literary Registers of Latin. 19 The Language of Roman Comedy ( Wolfgang de Melo). 20 The Language of Latin Epic and Lyric Poetry ( Rolando Ferri). 21 The Language of Latin Verse Satire ( Anna Chahoud). 22 The Language of Roman Oratory and Rhetoric ( J.G.F. Powell). 23 The Language of Latin Historiography ( Christina Shuttleworth Kraus). 24 Epistolary Latin ( Hilla Halla-aho). 25 Latin as a Technical and Scientific Language ( Thorsten Fogen). 26 Legal Latin ( J.G.F. Powell). 27 Christian Latin ( Philip Burton). PART V Latin in Social and Political Contexts. 28 The Social Dialects of Latin ( James Clackson). 29 Latin and Other Languages: Societal and Individual Bilingualism ( Alex Mullen). 30 Language Policies in the Roman Republic and Empire ( Bruno Rochette). 31 Latin Inside and Outside of Rome ( Giovanbattista Galdi). References. Index Locorum. Index.

About the Author

James Clackson is University Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Indo-European Languages (2007) and The Linguistic Relationship between Armenian and Greek (1994). He is co-author of The Blackwell History of the Latin Language (with Geoffrey Horrocks, Wiley-Blackwell 2007), and co-editor of Indo-European Word Formation (with Birgit Anette Olsen, 2004), and Natural Composition in Indo-European Languages (with Torsten Meissner, 2002).