...The late Republican polymath Varro's second triad of ‘books’ on the Latin language (De Lingua Latina) were aimed at exploring the semiotic relationship between time, space, and movement in the development of Latin. These books explore how langue (the conventions...

... Latin translations of Greek works, which indicate that there was a Latin-language market for natural philosophical and astronomical texts. Some bilingual Roman authors translated Greek works into Latin, such as Cicero. He is an example of an author who sought to make Greek philosophy accessible to Latin...

... Sanskrit Syriac Dante Alighieri De vulgari eloquentia Italian vernacular Latin language Latin and Italian in Italy, early fourteenth century Inter alias ergo scientias gramatica potest dici semita vel viculus sive kiasso tum quia stricta est cum a nullius alterius scientie ingressu...

... Henry I Henry the Liberal legittera Moses signs Thomas à Kempis Borst Arno ḥasan Khurāfa person Petrarch Francesco shuʿūbiyya movement Sībawayhi Death Cab for Cutie “I Will Possess Your Heart” Death Cab for Cutie Latin language Arabic language cosmopolitan language Secundus Philip...

... of the superior knowledge that these poets possess of the relationship between language and the natural world. Roman scholars attributed to poets the privileged knowledge of an early poetic language, one that had access to mythic and folkloric associations dating back to the period when the Latin language...

.... ” Journal of Roman Studies 84: 87–112. —— . 2003 . Bilingualism and the Latin Language . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. —— . 2007 . The Regional Diversification of Latin, 200 bc–ad 600. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press...

.... It describes dramatic activity in English colleges, focusing on the College of St. Omers and the work of its premier playwright Joseph Simons. It also discusses views on the usefulness of the drama in memory training, in teaching oratorical skills, and in improving students’ Latin language skills. Jesuit drama...

... writing at Rome) is to examine the ways in which, and the extent to which, the expressive capabilities of the Latin language gave distinctive shape and character to Roman philosophical discourse. While the birth of philosophical discourse in Latin is naturally implicated in Rome’s ongoing negotiation...

... period Latin language Etruscan Faliscan Celtic Venetic diglossia linguistic shift epichoric epigraphy linguistic interference The reason why the Latinization of the Italian peninsula attracted the attention of scholars quite early is that it combines two characteristics that are rarely found...

... arrived. The monks who came to convert the island to Christianity brought their Latin language with them, and they also brought the Latin alphabet. They set about translating religious texts into the language of the people they encountered, a language that by this time had coalesced into something...

... the Great Christianity Judaea Providence Athens Rome stratoracy Etruscans Latins providence Roman state Latin language antiquity we now approach the coast that, for most of the states hitherto under consideration, has been the cause of their often terrible downfall: from Rome a flood...

... vulgari eloquentia vernacular languages terms for Beethoven Ludwig van Boccaccio Giovanni late style works Bashshār ibn Burd Petrarch Latin language vernacular translation Theodor Adorno late work late style cosmopolitan language Latin in Paris, 1361; Italian in the Veneto, 1374...

...This article discusses the function and character of Latin in Roman Egypt. Within the multilingual speech community of Roman Egypt the Latin language played a minor role. Greek was employed by the Romans as a spoken and written lingua franca. As far as we can judge from scattered and heterogeneous...

...The History of the Latin Language by Friedrich Stolz remains a solid product of historical-comparative linguistics. It has two blind spots, both dependent on its method: it privileges the evolution of Latin over its characteristics; and it sacrifices literary language...

...The twenty-eight articles in this Handbook represent some of the current thinking in the study of Latin language and literature in the Middle Ages. The insights offered by the collective of authors not only illuminate the field of medieval Latin literature, but shed new light on broader questions...

.... ” In Bilingualism in Ancient Society , eds. J.N. Adams , M. Janse , and S. Swain , 102–127. Oxford. Adams, J.N.   2003 . Bilingualism and the Latin Language . Cambridge. Adams, J.N.   2007 . The Regional Diversification of Latin 200 BC—AD 600...

... that even when a Roman immersed himself in the Greek way of life, he still could not reconcile being addressed in Greek by a Roman fellow-citizen with his—still Roman—identity. Albucius’ hostile behaviour towards Scaevola indicates that using the Latin language was at the heart of ‘being Roman...

... in this chapter, with regards to the argument about the Latin language. In part ii of this book, I shall move on to the question of how humanist Latin eventually negotiated a working relationship with the discourse of argument and logical proof. That process, however, as we shall see, was precipitated...

... of the 16th century. An examination of St. Ann and her respective cult provides a detailed description of the events that show some facets of the Latin language divide that was occurring in Germany during that time. Our exploration of some facets of the Latin language divide in Germany will focus...

...This book provides an entirely new look at an era of radical change in the history of West European thought, the period between 1480 and 1540, mainly in France and Germany. The lens for this novel perspective is the Latin language shift, from the Latin idiom in which late medieval intellectual...