... and aesthetic concerns. It first considers Vergil's use of prestige language—value terms like honor, Gloria, and dignitas, heavy in their social overtones—that are attached to elements of rural life. It then looks at the poem's habit of tracing the traditions...

... practice Mainland Scandinavian infocopying Mailhammer Robert historical linguistics Uralic languages loanwords language contact prestige language The idea that the borrowing of a word indicates the borrowing of the corresponding concept (often associated with Adolphe Pictet’s “linguistic...