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BILINGUALISM AND THE LATIN LANGUAGE
soneofthemainthemesof
sociolinguistics,butthereareasyetfewlarge-scaletreatmentsofthe
subject specific to the ancient world. This book is the first work to
deal systematically with bilingualism during a period of antiquity
(the Roman period, down to about the fourth century
AD
) in the
light of sociolinguistic discussions of bilingual issues. The general
theme of the work is the nature of the contact between Latin and
numerous other languages spoken in the Roman world. Among
themanyissuesdiscussedthreeareprominent:code-switching(the
practiceofswitchingbetweentwolanguagesinthecourseofasingle
utterance)anditsmotivation,languagecontactasacauseoflinguis-
tic change, and the part played by language choice and language
switching in conveying a sense of identity.
J
.
N
.
ADAMS
isaSeniorResearchFellowofAllSoulsCollege,Oxford
andaFellowoftheBritishAcademy.HewaspreviouslyProfessorof
LatinattheUniversitiesofManchesterandReading.Inadditionto
articles in numerous journals, he has published five books:
TheText
and Language of a Vulgar Latin Chronicle (Anonymus Valesianus II)
(
),
The Latin
),
Wackernagel’s Lawand the Placement of the
Copula
Esse
in Classical Latin
(
) and
Pelagonius and Latin Veterinary
Terminology in the Roman Empire
(
).
Bilingualismhasbecomesincethe
The Vulgar Latin of the Letters of Claudius Terentianus
(
)
Sexual Vocabulary
(
BILINGUALISM AND THE
LATIN LANGUAGE
J. N. ADAMS
Senior Research Fellowof All Souls College, Oxford
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