Latin and Other Languages: Societal and Individual Bilingualism

A Companion to the Latin Language

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 527-548

  Mullen, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Language contact, and maintenance languages in contact, continuing to be spoken; Latin and individual bilingualism pre imperial period, and Cicero's epistolary code switching; Latin and other languages societal and individual bilingualism; Latin and societal bilingualism pre imperial period, involving Latin, contact with Italy; Latin, in contact with other languages evidence for Latin interaction, with Oscan, Gaulish, Greek and Palmyrene; Literary evidence, copious information for reconstructing bilingualism of specific individuals; Roman Republic and Empire Greco Roman, bicultural creations, bilingual from the outset; Romans, debating nature of their biculturalism status and function of utraque lingua, "both our languages"; Societal and individual bilingualism "bilingual" applied to communities and individuals

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EID: 84885569913     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444343397.ch29     Document Type: Chapter

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