Bilingualism in Ancient Society

J.N. Adams is Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, OxfordM. Janse is Editor, Biographie Linguistique, The Hague, and Associate Professor of Greek and General LinguisticsS. Swain is Professor of Classics, University of Warwick

• 1. Introduction ; 1 INTRODUCTORY ; 2. Approaching Bilingualism in Corpus Languages ; 3. Dead or Alive? the Status of the Standard Language ; 2. GREEK-LATIN BILINGUALISM ; 4. Greco-Romans and Greco-Latin: a Terminological Framework for Cases of Bilingualism ; 5. Bilingualism at Delos ; 6. Bilingualism in Cicero? The Evidence of Code-Switching ; 7. From Contact to Mixture: Bilingual Inscriptions from Italy ; 3. GREEK AND OTHER LANGUAGES ; 8. Interference of Translationese? Some Patterns in Lycian-Greek Bilingualism ; 9. Bilingualism in Roman Egypt ; 10. Greek and Phrygian in the High Roman Empire ; 11. Res Gestae Divi Saporis: Greek and Middle Iranian in a Document of Sasanian, anti-Roman propaganda ; 12. Bilingualism and Diglossia in Late Antique Syria and Mesopotamis ; 13. Aspects of Bilingualism in the History of the Greek Language ; 4. LATIN AND OTHER LANGUAGES ; 14. Assessing Latin-Gothic Interaction ; 15. Latin-Frankish Bilingualism in Sixth-Century Gaul: the Latin of Clovis

...a very successful and highly interesting book, to be recommended to all students of language contact.