Oscan in Southern Italy and Sicily: Evaluating Language Contact in a Fragmentary Corpus

ISBN-13: 9781107103832 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 325 str.

Katherine McDonald

Opis

Groundbreaking new interpretation of the relationship between Greek and Oscan, two of the most widely spoken languages of pre-Roman Italy.

Recenzje

'This volume is the first thorough study on the interaction between Oscan and Greek based on the written evidence, but it can also be regarded as an up-to-date collection of the South Oscan inscriptions … We believe that this book will be a reference work for anyone interested either in South Oscan epigraphy or in language contact phenomena of the ancient world.' Manuela Anelli, Ancient History Bulletin

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Bilingualism and language contact in written texts; 3. Alphabets, orthography and epigraphy; 4. Dedicatory inscriptions; 5. Curse tablets; 6. Legal and official texts; 7. Shorter texts: funerary inscriptions, graffiti and signatures; 8. Conclusions; Appendix 1. Datings of inscriptions; Appendix 2. Catalogue of sites.