Migration, mobility and language contact in and around the ancient Mediterranean /

Migration, mobility and language contact in and around the ancient Mediterranean / edited by James Clackson [and 4 others].

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Migration, Mobility and Language Contact in and around the Ancient Mediterranean is the first volume to show the different ways in which surviving linguistic evidence can be used to track movements of people in the ancient world. Eleven chapters cover a number of case studies, which span the period...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Other Authors: Clackson, James (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambdridge University Press, 2020.
Series:Cambridge classical studies.
Subjects:
To 1500
Languages in contact > Mediterranean Region > History.
Multilingualism > Mediterranean Region > History.
Historical linguistics > Mediterranean Region.
Classical antiquities.
Inscriptions > Mediterranean Region > History.
Human beings > Migrations > History > To 1500.
Antiquities
Classical antiquities
Emigration and immigration
Historical linguistics
Human beings > Migrations
Inscriptions
Language and languages
Languages in contact
Multilingualism
Mediterranean Region > Languages.
Mediterranean Region > Antiquities.
Mediterranean Region > Emigration and immigration > History > To 1500.
Mediterranean Region
History
Table of Contents:
  • Inter-ethnic mobility in pre-Roman Etruria : the contribution of onomastics / Daniele F. Maras
  • Elusive migrants of ancient Italy / Elena Isayev
  • The language of mobile craftsmen in the Western Mediterranean / Katherine McDonald & James Clackson
  • Lost and found in transmission : the creation of the Oscan alphabet / Karin W. Tikkanen
  • Mobility and orthography : a contextualisation of variant spellings in the Oscan : a contextualisation of variant spellings in the Greek alphabet / Livia Tagliapietra
  • The Mamertini in Messina : mobility, migration and mercenaries / Nicholas Zair
  • Migration, identity, and multilingualism in late Hellenistic Delos / Francesco Rovai
  • Interpretes, negotiatores and the Roman army : mobile professionals and their languages / Rachel Mairs
  • 'Hoc primvs vent : Italians and others in Egypt before the Caesars / Patrick James
  • Population, migration and language in the city of Rome / Olivia Elder.

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