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<p>List of Illustrations viii</p> <p>Notes on Contributors x</p> <p>Abbreviations of Ancient Authors and Works xiv</p> <p>Abbreviations of Modern Sources xx</p> <p>Symbols Used xxiv</p> <p>Linguistic and Other Abbreviations xxv</p> <p>1 Introduction 1<br /><i>James Clackson</i></p> <p><b>PART I Sources 7</b></p> <p>2 The Latin Alphabet and Orthography 9<br /><i>Rex Wallace</i></p> <p>3 Latin Inscriptions and Documents 29<br /><i>James Clackson</i></p> <p>4 Latin Manuscripts and Textual Traditions 40<br /><i>Bruce Gibson</i></p> <p>5 Romance Languages as a Source for Spoken Latin 59<br /><i>Roger Wright</i></p> <p><b>PART II The Language 81</b></p> <p>6 The Sounds of Latin: Phonology 83<br /><i>Matthew McCullagh</i></p> <p>7 Latin Prosody and Metrics 92<br /><i>Benjamin W. Fortson IV</i></p> <p>8 The Forms of Latin: Inflectional Morphology 105<br /><i>James Clackson</i></p> <p>9 Latin Syntax 118<br /><i>Geoffrey Horrocks</i></p> <p>10 Latin Vocabulary 144<br /><i>Michèle Fruyt</i></p> <p>11 Word-Formation in Classical Latin 157<br /><i>Michèle Fruyt</i></p> <p>12 Latin Particles and the Grammar of Discourse 176<br /><i>Caroline Kroon</i></p> <p><b>PART III Latin Through Time 197</b></p> <p>13 The Historical Background to Latin within the Indo-European Language Family 199<br /><i>Benjamin W. Fortson IV</i></p> <p>14 Archaic and Old Latin 220<br /><i>John Penney</i></p> <p>15 Classical Latin 236<br /><i>James Clackson</i></p> <p>16 Late Latin 257<br /><i>J.N. Adams</i></p> <p>17 Medieval Latin 284<br /><i>Greti Dinkova-Bruun</i></p> <p>18 Neo-Latin 303<br /><i>David Butterfield</i></p> <p><b>PART IV Literary Registers of Latin 319</b></p> <p>19 The Language of Roman Comedy 321<br /><i>Wolfgang de Melo</i></p> <p>20 The Language of Latin Epic and Lyric Poetry 344<br /><i>Rolando Ferri</i></p> <p>21 The Language of Latin Verse Satire 367<br /><i>Anna Chahoud</i></p> <p>22 The Language of Roman Oratory and Rhetoric 384<br /><i>J.G.F. Powell</i></p> <p>23 The Language of Latin Historiography 408<br /><i>Christina Shuttleworth Kraus</i></p> <p>24 Epistolary Latin 426<br /><i>Hilla Halla-aho</i></p> <p>25 Latin as a Technical and Scientific Language 445<br /><i>Thorsten Fögen</i></p> <p>26 Legal Latin 464<br /><i>J.G.F. Powell</i></p> <p>27 Christian Latin 485<br /><i>Philip Burton</i></p> <p><b>PART V Latin in Social and Political Contexts 503</b></p> <p>28 The Social Dialects of Latin 505<br /><i>James Clackson</i></p> <p>29 Latin and Other Languages: Societal and Individual Bilingualism 527<br /><i>Alex Mullen</i></p> <p>30 Language Policies in the Roman Republic and Empire 549<br /><i>Bruno Rochette</i></p> <p>31 Latin Inside and Outside of Rome 564<br /><i>Giovanbattista Galdi</i></p> <p>References 582</p> <p>Index Locorum 619</p> <p>Index 627</p>

<p><b>James Clackson</b> is Professor of Comparative Philology at the University of Cambridge.  He is the author of <i>Language and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds</i> (2015), <i>Indo-European Languages</i> (2007) and <i>The Linguistic Relationship between Armenian and Greek</i> (1994).  He is co-author of <i>The Blackwell History of the Latin Language</i> (with Geoffrey Horrocks, Wiley-Blackwell 2007), and co-editor of <i>Indo-European Word Formation</i> (with Birgit Anette Olsen, 2004), and <i>Nominal Composition in Indo-European Languages</i> (with Torsten Meißner, 2002).</p>

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