A Companion to the Latin Language

Clackson, James (Editor)

Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World

1. Edition August 2011
664 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-1-4051-8605-6

John Wiley & Sons

Short Description

For a "dead" language, Latin has achieved an elevated stature unmatched by few living languages -- its cultural cachet evidenced through countless terms and phrases utilized in Western law, medicine, and science. To celebrate this extraordinary legacy, A Companion to the Latin Language offers a comprehensive account of the evolution of Latin from its Indo-European origins to its modern-day usage. Unmatched in breadth of coverage and scholarly rigor, A Companion to the Latin Language presents the most thorough and up-to-date consideration of the rich complexities and enduring legacy of the Latin language available today.

Further versions

A Companion to the Latin Language presents a collection of original essays from international scholars that track the development and use of the Latin language from its origins to its modern day usage.
* Brings together contributions from internationally renowned classicists, linguists and Latin language specialists
* Offers, in a single volume, a detailed account of different literary registers of the Latin language
* Explores the social and political contexts of Latin
* Includes new accounts of the Latin language in light of modern linguistic theory
* Supplemented with illustrations covering the development of the Latin alphabet

List of Figures

List of Tables

Notes on Contributors

Symbols Used

Abbreviations of Ancient Authors and Works

Abbreviations of Modern Sources

Linguistic and Other Abbreviations

Introduction: James Clackson

Part I: Sources

Part II: The Language

Part III: Latin Through Time

Part IV: Literary Registers of Latin

Part V: Latin in Social and Political Contexts

Bibliography

Indexes

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).

J. Clackson, University of Cambridge, UK