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Oscan in Southern Italy and Sicily: Evaluating Language Contact in a Fragmentary Corpus - Cambridge Classical Studies
McDonald, Katherine (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
Oscan in Southern Italy and Sicily: Evaluating Language Contact in a Fragmentary Corpus - Cambridge Classical Studies
McDonald, Katherine (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
In pre-Roman Italy and Sicily, dozens of languages and writing systems competed and interacted. Using new archaeological evidence and modern theories of bilingualism, this book explores the relationship between Greek and Oscan, two of the most widely spoken languages in the south of the peninsula.
302 pages, 26 b/w illus. 4 maps 28 tables
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | October 1, 2015 |
ISBN13 | 9781107103832 |
Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 325 |
Dimensions | 223 × 150 × 22 mm · 572 g |