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Oscan in southern Italy and Sicily : evaluating language contact in a fragmentary corpus / Katherine McDonald.

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  • Oscan in Southern Italy & Sicily
Published
  • Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2015
Physical description
1 online resource (xix, 306 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN
  • 1-316-39715-7
  • 1-316-39935-4
  • 1-316-40043-3
  • 1-316-40097-2
  • 1-316-39989-3
  • 1-316-39877-3
  • 1-316-21845-7
Notes
  • Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
  • Based on the author's doctoral dissertation.
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • Mode of access: World Wide Web
  • English
  • Available in electronic full text to members of the University via the Library web catalogue.
  • Print version record.
Contents
  • Introduction -- Bilingualism and language contact in written texts -- Alphabets, epigraphy and orthography -- Dedicatory inscriptions -- Curse tablets -- Legal texts -- Official inscriptions, coins, funerary inscriptions, stamps and graffiti -- Conclusions -- Appendix 1: catalogue of sites -- Appendix 2: dating of inscriptions and concordances.
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  • English
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Summary

  • In pre-Roman Italy and Sicily, dozens of languages and writing systems competed and interacted, and bilingualism was the norm. Using frameworks from epigraphy, archaeology and the sociolinguistics of language contact, this book explores the relationship between Greek and Oscan, two of the most widely spoken languages in the south of the peninsula. Dr McDonald undertakes a new analysis of the entire corpus of South Oscan texts written in Lucania, Bruttium and Messana, including dedications, curse tablets, laws, funerary texts and graffiti. She demonstrates that genre and domain are critical to understanding where and when Greek was used within Oscan-speaking communities, and how ancient bilinguals exploited the social meaning of their languages in their writing. This book also offers a cutting-edge example of how to build the fullest possible picture of bilingualism in fragmentary languages across the ancient world.
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University of Birmingham Libraries Online location Cambridge Core All Books
University of Bradford Online location
University of Bradford: J B Priestley Library
British Library: General Reference Collection, St Pancras Reading Rooms YC.2015.a.14451
British School at Rome Library and Archive: British School at Rome 233.2.M.1
University of Cambridge Libraries: Classical Faculty Library: Main Library J 5.61 17
University of Cambridge Libraries: Gonville & Caius College: Reserve Stock [request at Enquiry Desk] 479.9 M
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Cardiff University Libraries: Talybont Research Reserve: Ask at desk PA2452.M2
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University of Exeter Library: Forum Library 479.9 MACD
University of Exeter Library: Forum Library 479.9 MACD
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University of Liverpool Library: Sydney Jones Library, Grove Wing, 2nd Floor PA2452.M13
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The London Library: Philology Philology, Oscan
University of Manchester Library: Main Library: Blue Area Floor 2 479.112
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National Library of Scotland: General Reading Room, Edinburgh (stored offsite) HB2.215.11.444
National Library of Scotland: General Reading Room, Edinburgh (stored offsite) PB5.218.861/1
National Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru: Contact the National Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru PRINT 2015 LDA 10920
Newcastle University Libraries: Philip Robinson Library: Robinson Shefton Level 4 913.38 MCD
University of Oxford Libraries: All Souls College Library: Stack ground floor Lang.81
University of Oxford Libraries: Art, Archaeology and Ancient World Library: Lower Ground Floor 109 McD
University of Oxford Libraries: Somerville College Library 415 MCD 1
University of Oxford Libraries: Wolfson College Library: Floersheimer 479 MCD
University of Oxford Libraries: Christ Church Library: Library of Congress sequence PA 2452 MCD 2015
University of St Andrews Library: Main Library PA2452.M37
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