Title: A multidisciplinary analysis of mon-literary Latin texts from Roman Britain
Source document: Graeco-Latina Brunensia. 2018, vol. 23, iss. 1, pp. 35-47
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35-47
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ISSN1803-7402 (print)2336-4424 (online)
Persistent identifier (DOI): https://doi.org/10.5817/GLB2018-1-3
Stable URL (handle): https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/138096
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Abstract(s)
The present paper is focussed on the major corpora of non-literary documents written on tablets in Roman Britain. This encompasses the stylus tablets from Londinium-Bloomberg, the ink-written tablets from Carlisle and Vindolanda, and the curse tablets incised on lead. The main purpose of this analysis is to show from a quantitative perspective how these different corpora diverge from each other not only in respect of the writing material but also according to the presence or absence of specific linguistic features: gemination, degemination, vowel syncope, and presence or absence of initial h-.
Note
This paper was presented at the Second International Workshop on Computational Latin Dialectology, Budapest, 30–31 March, 2017. This paper is also part of the LatinNow project (latinnow.eu) whose principal investigator is Dr Alex Mullen. LatinNow aims to situate the phenomena of Latinization, literacy, bi- and multilingualism within broader social developments. The project is hosted by the University of Nottingham and based at the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents (CSAD), University of Oxford. LatinNow receives funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 715626).
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[3] Adamik, B. (2016). The Frequency of Syncope in the Latin of the Empire: A Statistical and Dialectological Study Based on the Analysis of Inscriptions. In P. Pocetti (Ed.), XVII Colloquium of Latin Linguistics, May 20th – May 25th 2013 (pp. 3–21). Berlin – Boston: De Gruyter.
[4] Allen, W. S. (1965). Vox Latina: A Guide to the Pronunciation of Classical Latin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
[5] Baldi, P. (1999). Foundations of Latin. Berlin – New York: Mouton-De Gruyter.
[6] Battaglia, M. (2013). I Germani. Genesi di una cultura europea. Roma: Carocci.
[7] Blackshaw, S. M. (1974). The Conservation of the Wooden Writing-Tablets from Vindolanda Roman Fort, Northumberland. Studies in Conservation, 19(4), 244–246. | DOI 10.2307/1505731
[8] Bowman, A. K., & Thomas, J. D. (1983). Vindolanda: The Latin Writing Tablets (Britannia Monographs, 4). London: London Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies.
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[11] Bowman A. K., Thomas, J. D., & Tomlin, R. S. O. (2010). The Vindolanda Writing-Tablets (Tabulae Vindolandenses, IV, part 1). Britannia, 41, 187–224. | DOI 10.1017/S0068113X10000176
[12] Bowman, A. K., Thomas, J. D. & Tomlin, R. S. O. (2011). The Vindolanda Writing-Tablets (Tabulae Vindolandenses, IV, part 2). Britannia, 42, 113–144. | DOI 10.1017/S0068113X11000109
[13] Clackson, J., & G. Horrocks (2007). The Blackwell History of the Latin Language. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell.
[14] Cotugno, F. (in press). Voci di Britannia. In L. Costamagna, A. Marcaccio, S. Scaglione, & B. Turchetta (Eds.), Mutamento linguistico e biodiversità. Atti del XLI Convegno annuale della Società Italiana di Glottologia. Roma: Editore Il Calamo.
[15] Cotugno, F., & Marotta, G. (2017). Geminated Consonants in Vindolanda's Tablets. Empirical Data & Sociolinguistic Remarks. In P. Molinelli (Ed.), Linguistic Representation of Identity (pp. 269–288). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
[16] Faraone, C. A., & Kropp, A. (2010). Inversion, Adversion & Perversion as Strategies in Latin Curse-Tablets. In R. Gordon, & F. M. Simón (Eds.), Magical Practice in the Latin West (pp. 381–398). Leiden: Brill.
[17] Gurney, D. (1986). Settlement, Religion & Industry on the Fen-edge; Three Romano British Sites in Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology Report, 31, 1–193.
[18] Kropp, A. (2008). Defixiones: Ein aktuelles Corpus lateinischer Fluchtafeln. Speyer: Kartoffeldruck-Verlag.
[19] Halla-Aho, H. (2009). The Non-Literary Latin Letters. A Study of Their Syntax & Pragmatics. Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica.
[20] Leumann, M. (1977). Lateinische Laut- und Formenlehre. München: Bech.
[21] Marichal, R. (1988). Les graffites de La Graufesenque (Gallia, Suppl. 47). Paris: Editions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique.
[22] Mullen, A. (2007a). Linguistic Evidence for 'Romanization': Continuity & Change in Romano-British Onomastics. A Study of the Epigraphic Record with Particular Reference to Bath. Britannia, 38, 35–61. | DOI 10.3815/000000007784016548
[23] Mullen, A. (2007b). Evidence for Written Celtic from Roman Britain: a Linguistic Analysis of Tabellae Sulis 14 & 18. Studia Celtica, 41, 29–43.
[24] Mullen, A. (2013). New Thoughts on British Latin: a Curse Tablet from Red Hill, Ratcliffe-on-Soar (Nottinghamshire). Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 187, 266–272.
[25] Mullen, A. (2016). Sociolinguistics. In M. Millett, A. Moore, & L. Revell (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook to Roman Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
[26] Sturtevant, E. (1947). An Introduction to Linguistic Science. New Haven: Yale University Press.
[27] Tomlin, R. S. O. (1988). Tabellae Sulis: Roman Inscribed Tablets on Tin & Lead from the Sacred Spring of Bath. In B. Cunliffe (Ed.), The Temple of Sulis Minerva at Bath, 2: The Finds from the Sacred Spring (Monograph; Oxford University Committee for Acheology, 16; pp. 59–269). Oxford: University Committee for Archaeology.
[28] Tomlin, R. S. O. (1993). The Inscribed Lead Tablets. In A. Woodward, & P. Leach (Eds.), The Uley Shrines: Excavation of a Ritual Complex on West Hill, Uley, Gloucestershire, 1977–79 (pp. 113–126). London: English Heritage.
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[30] Tomlin, R. S. O. (2009). Roman Britain in 2008: III. Inscriptions. Britannia, 40, 313–363. | DOI 10.1017/S0068113X00000143
[31] Tomlin, R. S. O. (2010). Roman Britain in 2009: III. Inscriptions. Britannia, 41, 441–469. | DOI 10.1017/S0068113X10000504
[32] Tomlin, R. S. O. (2011). Roman Britain in 2010: III. Inscriptions. Britannia, 42, 439–466. | DOI 10.1017/S0068113X11000638
[33] Tomlin, R. S. O. (2012). Roman Britain in 2011: III. Inscriptions. Britannia, 43, 395–421. | DOI 10.1017/S0068113X1200044X
[34] Tomlin, R. S. O. (2013). Roman Britain in 2012: III. Inscriptions. Britannia, 44, 381–396. | DOI 10.1017/S0068113X13000408
[35] Tomlin, R. S. O. (2014). Roman Britain in 2013: III. Inscriptions. Britannia, 45, 431–462. | DOI 10.1017/S0068113X14000403
[36] Tomlin, R. S. O. (2015). Roman Britain in 2014: III. Inscriptions. Britannia, 46, 383–420. | DOI 10.1017/S0068113X15000434
[37] Tomlin, R. S. O. (2016). Roman London's First Voices. Writing Tablets from the Bloomberg excavation, 2010–2014. London: MOLA.