Since the 1980s, bilingualism has become one of the main themes of sociolinguistics - but there are as yet few large-scale treatments of the subject specific to the ancient world. This book is the first work to deal systematically with bilingualism during a period of antiquity (the Roman period, down to about the fourth century AD) in the light of sociolinguistic discussions of bilingual issues. The general theme of the work is the nature of the contact between Latin and numerous other languages spoken in the Roman world. Among the many issues discussed three are prominent: code-switching (the practice of switching between two languages in the course of a single utterance) and its motivation, language contact as a cause of change in one or both of the languages in contact, and the part played by language choice and language switching in the establishment of personal and group identities.

This book is the best single volume work on the Latin language. A comprehensive survey of the major topics in Latin linguistics, it is valuable not only to specialists in that field but also to Latin literary scholars, and to students of Indo-European and Romance historical linguistics generally.

The modern study of Classical Latin creates the illusion that it is a precisely-defined and immutable language; but all living languages are changing continuously, and Latin was no exception. Even in the Classical period many varieties of Latin were written and spoken, and as the Empire collapsed Latin, especially the spoken language of the common people, evolved. This language, Vulgar Latin, not the medieval Latin of learned scholars, evolved further into the Romance languages. This book traces the development of Vulgar Latin and will therefore be of interest to medievalists and students of Romance languages. Charles Hall Grandgent was a professor at Harvard from 1896 to 1932. He was highly regarded as a Romance linguist and authority on Dante. He was also a leading expert on American English dialects.

The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations completes our enormously successful and award-winning Latin for the Illiterati series of volumes, rounding off the trilogy with a comprehensive treasury of classic Latin quotations, mottoes, proverbs, and maxims collected from the worlds of philosophy, rhetoric, politics, science, religion, literature, drama, poetics, and war.Distinguished by the combination of user-friendliness and comprehensiveness, this book will provide students, scholars, and general readers with an eminently browsable resource that is as useful as it is enjoyable.

Languages show variations according to the social class of speakers and Latin was no exception, as readers of Petronius are aware. The Romance languages have traditionally been regarded as developing out of a 'language of the common people' (Vulgar Latin), but studies of modern languages demonstrate that linguistic change does not merely come, in the social sense, 'from below'. There is change from above, as prestige usages work their way down the social scale, and change may also occur across the social classes. This book is a history of many of the developments undergone by the Latin language as it changed into Romance, demonstrating the varying social levels at which change was initiated. About thirty topics are dealt with, many of them more systematically than ever before. Discussions often start in the early Republic with Plautus, and the book is as much about the literary language as about informal varieties.
New history of the development of Latin from early Latin to the emergent Romance languages, by a leading expert in the field
Presents new material as well as old evidence that has long been neglected in histories and grammars of the language
Departs from the old concept of 'Vulgar Latin' and is influenced instead by modern sociolinguistic research

Inspired by Theodore Papanghelis' Propertius: A Hellenistic Poet on Love and Death (1987), this collective volume brings together seventeen contributions, written by an international team of experts, exploring the different ways in which Latin authors and some of their modern readers created narratives of life, love and death. Taken together the papers offer stimulating readings of Latin texts over many centuries, examined in a variety of genres and from various perspectives: poetics and authorial self-fashioning; intertextuality; fiction and ‘reality'; gender and queer studies; narratological readings; temporality and aesthetics; genre and meta-genre; structures of the narrative and transgression of boundaries on the ideological and the formalistic level; reception; meta-dramatic and feminist accounts-the female voice. Overall, the articles offer rich insights into the handling and development of these narratives from Classical Greece through Rome up to modern English poetry.

The leading Latin course worldwide Book I begins in the city of Pompeii shortly before the eruption of Vesuvius. Book I is full colour throughout, with a clear layout of stories and language notes. Featuring a glossary for quick reference and comprehension questions, the book also includes a full explanation of language points and grammar practice exercises.

Entirely composed in Latin, Part I, Familia Romana, provides an excellent introduction to Latin, including the essentials of Latin grammar and a basic vocabulary of over 1500 words. The thirty-five chapters describe the life of a Roman family in the 2nd century A.D., and culminate in readings from classical poets and Donatus's Ars Grammatica, the standard Latin school text for a millennium. Each chapter is divided into two or three lectiones (lessons) of a couple pages each followed by a grammar section, Grammatica Latina, and three exercises or Pensa. Hans ??rberg's impeccable Latinity, humorous stories, and the Peer Lauritzen illustrations make this work a classic. The book includes a table of inflections, a Roman calendar, and a word index, Index vocabulorum.

"An absorbing, scholarly account of the history of the Latin language, from its origins in antiquity to its afterlife in our own time..."Ad Infinitum" treats its readers with the dignity of Roman citizens."--"The" "Wall Street Journal" The Latin language has been the one constant in the cultural history of the West for more than two millennia. It has defined the way in which we express our thoughts, our faith, and our knowledge of how the world functions, its use echoing on in the law codes of half the world, in the terminologies of modern science, and, until forty years ago, in the liturgy of the Catholic Church. In his erudite and entertaining "biography," Nicholas Ostler shows how and why Latin survived and thrived even as its creators and other languages failed. Originally the dialect of Rome and its surrounds, Latin supplanted its neighbors to become, by conquest and settlement, the language of all Italy, and then of Western Europe and North Africa. After the empire collapsed, spoken Latin re-emerged as a host of new languages, from Portuguese and Spanish in the west to Romanian in the east, while a knowledge of Latin lived on as the common code of European thought, and inspired the founders of Europe's New World in the Americas. E pluribus unum. Illuminating the extravaganza of its past, Nicholas Ostler makes clear that, in a thousand echoes, Latin lives on, ad infinitum.

This is a comprehensive introduction to Latin forms and syntax, designed to train the student in reading ancient texts at an early stage.

《拉丁语语法新编》是 20 世纪以来英语世界最权威也最受欢迎的拉丁语语法书，经过多次修订和重版。本书对拉丁语语法的解释细致、全面、井井有条，兼具深度和广度。 本书主要分为三个部分。第一部分是词与词形，包括变格、变位和单词的构成； 第二部分是句法，介绍格、时态、语式的用法以及各种从句的句法；第三部分讲解诗律。书中还有附录多种。《拉丁语语法新编》对于初学者和资深学者而言都是必备的工具书。
《拉丁语语法新编》的中文版还具有如下特点：
• 汉语学界中首次系统、完整并且详细地介绍拉丁语词法、句法以及诗歌格律。
• 编译自英语世界最权威、流通最广泛的拉丁语语法工具书 。
• 全部例词、例句皆附有汉译；例句近3000条，大多选自经典拉丁语作品 。
• 订正原书各类排印错误、引文标注错误232处 。
• 补充译注451条、 译按108条，便于自学。

A Latin grammar and reader all in one, "Learn to Read Latin" presents basic Latin morphology and syntax with clear explanations and examples, and it offers direct access to great works of Latin literature even at the earliest stages of learning the language. As beginning students learn basic forms and grammar, they also gain familiarity with patterns of Latin word order and other features of style, thus becoming well prepared for later, more difficult texts. No other beginning Latin book contains unaltered versions of ancient texts. "Learn to Read Latin" includes the writings of such authors as Caesar, Cicero, Sallust, Catullus, Vergil, and Ovid, arranged chronologically and accompanied by introductions to each author and each work. These readings serve as the chief training texts around which the book's 15 chapters are constructed. A workbook is also available, providing abundant drills for each chapter of the text. The workbook exercises can be used in the classroom, for homework assignments, for extra individual drill work, or as a home study tool.

随着罗马帝国打遍天下的拉丁文，曾经是西方文明的重要源头。虽然罗马帝国瓦解了，但拉丁文深厚的文化和知识宝库依然让这种语言流传至今。拉丁文孕育了许多文明的种子，它的文字深深影响了西方世界的各种语言，至今，所有生物物种的学名仍然以拉丁文命名。
文艺复兴运动后，拉丁文在16 世纪获得史无前例的重视。天主教教会决定以拉丁文作为礼仪语言，学校也以教拉丁文为主，西方世界沉浸在拉丁文的世界中。虽然当时各地方言日益抬头，拉丁文仍以其优异的文化传统屹立不摇。拉丁文是各种方言词汇之母，是学习西方语言所无法规避的必经之路。然而随着讲求效益的近代社会出现，西方世界面临了一场语言的大革命。虽然各界领袖极力拥护拉丁文，声称拉丁文是人文主义教育的根源，但仍不敌实用性的挑战。如今拉丁文不再独占教会礼仪，学校也不再强制学习拉丁文，但仍有些许学生投入拉丁文的怀抱，缅怀那份文明源头的历史。本书资料丰富，分析透彻，将带你重温拉丁文及西方文化的近代史。
本书讲述了拉丁文从16 世纪复兴到20 世纪中期衰落的历程，讲述了它如何在此期间从文化上团结起整个欧洲，就如同汉语维系着中国一样。欧盟的命运令人忧心，但诚如《卫报》所说：“就某种不同寻常的严肃角度而言，我们要想从欧洲的过去中读到它的未来，不妨看看这本迷人的《拉丁文帝国》。”

《韦洛克拉丁语教程》是20 世纪后半期以来英语世界最受欢迎的拉丁语教材，初版于1956 年，很快就因其严密的组织结构、清晰的叙述讲解、循序渐进的设计安排、适中的难易程度以及其中收录的丰富的古代文献而被誉为“拉丁语学习的标准著作”，其“拉丁语学习首选教材”的地位无可撼动。
全书共分四十课，以简洁而不学究气的语言，系统讲解了拉丁语的基本词形、句法，并通过丰富的词汇学习、众多的英语词源研究、英拉句子互译和古典拉丁语作家原文赏读，来锻炼拉丁语学习者使用单词的灵活性和精确性，培养其观察、分析、判断和评价的能力，加强对语言形式、清晰性和美的感受；并通过探讨战争、友谊、未来、生老病死等发人深省的主题来学习古典作家的思想和技艺，分享他们的人文主义传统。第6 版更是增补了课后的词汇表，修订了拉丁语的背景介绍、语言演变和一些词源学知识，从而使自学拉丁语变得更加容易。