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020			_a9780511843433 (ebook)
020			_z9780521886147 (hardback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aPA2057 _b.A344 2013
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100	1		_aAdams, J. N., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aSocial Variation and the Latin Language / _cJ. N. Adams.
246	3		_aSocial Variation & the Latin Language
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource (956 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aLanguages 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.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521886147
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511843433
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
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