1. Introduction: What is early Latin? Giuseppe Pezzini and Anna Chahoud; Part I. General (Morphology, Syntax, Lexicon and Metre): 2. Alphabet, epigraphy, and literacy in central Italy in the 7th /5th c. BC Rex Wallace; 3. Identifying Latin in early inscriptions Simona Marchesini; 4. The Egadi Rostra, a linguistic analysis Wolfgang D. C. de Melo; 5. Morphology and syntax in early Latin Wolfgang D. C. de Melo; 6. Early Latin metre Wolfgang D. C. de Melo and Giuseppe Pezzini; 7. Greek Loanwords in early Latin James Clackson; 8. Latin edepol 'by Pollux': background of a Latin aduerbium iuratiuum Brent Vine; 9. Indirect questions in early Latin Peter Barrios-Lech; 10. Ecquis in early Latin: aspects of questions Colette Bodelot; Part II. Authors and Genres: 11. Support verb constructions in Plautus and Terence José Miguel Baños; 12. Early Latin prayers and aspects of coordination James Adams and Veronika Nikitina; 13. 'Early Latin' lexicon in Terence (and Plautus) Giuseppe Pezzini; 14. Early Latin and the fragments of Atellana Comedy Costas Panayotakis; 15. A comparison of the language of comedy and tragedy in early Latin drama Robert Maltby; 16. The language of early Latin epic Sander Goldberg; 17. How 'early Latin' is Lucilius? Anna Chahoud; 18. Repetition in the fragmentary orators: from Cato to C. Gracchus Christa Gray; 19. Greek influences on Cato's Latin Neil O'Sullivan; 20. Some syntactic features of Latin legal texts Olga Spevak; Part III. Reception: 21. Lucretius and early Latin Barnaby Taylor; 22. Cicero and early dramatic Latin Gesine Manuwald; 23. Early Latin texts in Livy John Briscoe; 24. Pliny rewrites Cato Cynthia Damon; 25. Gellius' appreciation and understanding of early Latin Leofranc Holford-Strevens; 26. Views on early Latin in grammatical texts Alessandro Garcea; 27. Nonius Marcellus and the shape of early Latin Jarrett Welsh; 28. Early Latin to Neo-Latin: Festus and Scaliger Anna Chahoud; Conclusions: 29. Early Latin as a Concept James Adams.