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Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
May 2023
Print publication year:
2023
Online ISBN:
9781009327633
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Book description

This book makes use of digital corpora to give in-depth details of the history and development of the spelling of Latin. It focusses on sub-elite texts in the Roman empire, and reveals that sophisticated education in this area was not restricted to those at the top of society. Nicholas Zair studies the history of particular orthographic features and traces their usage in a range of texts which give insight into everyday writers of Latin: including scribes and soldiers at Vindolanda, slaves at Pompeii, members of the Praetorian Guard, and writers of curse tablets. In doing so, he problematises the use of 'old-fashioned' spelling in dating inscriptions, provides important new information on sound-change in Latin, and shows how much can be gained from a detailed sociolinguistic analysis of ancient texts.

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‘… rewarding for epigraphists and linguists, and indeed for anyone interested in the development of Latin orthography and the Latin language, as well as those interested in sub-elite populations and their textual reflection in the Roman empire.’

Brent Vine Source: Mawr Classical Review

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  • Orthographic Traditions and the Sub-elite in the Roman Empire
    pp i-i
  • Cambridge Classical Studies - Series page
    pp ii-ii
  • Orthographic Traditions and the Sub-elite in the Roman Empire - Title page
    pp iii-iii
  • Copyright page
    pp iv-iv
  • Dedication
    pp v-vi
  • Contents
    pp vii-ix
  • Figures
    pp x-x
  • Tables
    pp xi-xii
  • Foreword
    pp xiii-xiii
  • Note on the Text
    pp xiv-xv
  • Abbreviations
    pp xvi-xviii
  • Chapter 1 - Introduction
    pp 1-44
  • Part I - Old-fashioned Spellings
    pp 45-204
  • Chapter 2 - <ai> for /ae̯/
    pp 47-49
  • Chapter 3 - <ei> and <e> for /iː/
    pp 50-64
  • Chapter 4 - <o> for /u/
    pp 65-73
  • Chapter 5 - <o> for /uː/
    pp 74-74
  • Chapter 6 - Alternation of <u> and <i>
    pp 75-105
  • Chapter 7 - <uo> for /we/ before a Coronal
    pp 106-108
  • Chapter 8 - <uo> and <uu> for /wu/ and /uu/, and <quo> and <quu> for /kwu/
    pp 109-128
  • Chapter 9 - Double Letters to Write Long Vowels
    pp 129-131
  • Chapter 10 - <c> for /g/
    pp 132-133
  • Chapter 11 - <ii> for /jj/
    pp 134-137
  • Chapter 12 - <k> before /a(ː)/ and <q> before /u(ː)/
    pp 138-164
  • Chapter 13 - <qu> for /k/ before Back Vowels
    pp 165-168
  • Chapter 14 - <xs> for /ks/
    pp 169-181
  • Chapter 15 - Geminates and Singletons
    pp 182-201
  • Chapter 16 - spepondi
    pp 202-202
  • Chapter 17 - popl- and pupl- for publ-
    pp 203-204
  • Part II - Apices and i-longa
    pp 205-279

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