Language and Linguistic Contact in Ancient Sicily

ISBN-13: 9781108731720 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 448 str.

Olga Tribulato

Opis

A comprehensive and up-to-date account of the languages of ancient Sicily by an international team of experts.

Spis treści

Introduction. 'So many Sicilies': introducing language and linguistic contact in ancient Sicily Olga Tribulato; Part I. Non-Classical Languages: 1. Language relations in Sicily: evidence for the speech of the Σικανοί, the Σικελοί and others Paolo Poccetti; 2. The Elymian language Simona Marchesini; 3. Phoenician and Punic in Sicily Maria Giulia Amadasi Guzzo; 4. Oscan in Sicily James Clackson; 5. Traces of language contact in Sicilian onomastics: the evidence from the Great Curse of Selinous Gerhard Meiser; 6. Coins and language in ancient Sicily Oliver Simkin; Part II. Greek: 7. Sicilian Greek before the fourth century BC: a basic grammar Susana Mimbrera; 8. The Sicilian Doric koine Susana Olarte; 9. Intimations of koine in Sicilian Doric: the information provided by the Antiatticist Albio Cesare Cassio; 10. 'We speak Peloponnesian': tradition and linguistic identity in postclassical Sicilian literature Andreas Willi; Part III. Latin: 11. Siculi bilingues? Latin in the inscriptions of early Roman Sicily Olga Tribulato; 12. Sicily in the Roman imperial period: language and society Kalle Korhonen.