32.3819, Calls: Latin; Historical Linguistics/Spain

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Subject: 32.3819, Calls: Latin; Historical Linguistics/Spain

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Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2021 23:10:24
From: Carlotta Viti [21icllsantiago at gmail.com]
Subject: Latin in the Linguistic Context of the Ancient Mediterranean (Workshop at 21st International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics)

 
Full Title: Latin in the Linguistic Context of the Ancient Mediterranean (Workshop at 21st International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics) 

Date: 30-May-2022 - 03-Jun-2022
Location: Santiago de Compostela, Spain 
Contact Person: 21icllsantiago at gmail.com 21icllsantiago at gmail.com
Meeting Email: 21icllsantiago at gmail.com
Web Site: https://www.icll2021.com/index.php/latin-in-the-linguistic-context-of-the-ancient-mediterranean/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): Latin (lat)

Language Family(ies): Indo-European 

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2022 

Meeting Description:

This workshop investigates the relationship between Latin and other languages
and cultures of Italy, of the Mediterranean and of the Middle East in
antiquity, that is, from prehistory until the end of the Roman Empire. On the
one hand, the Romans always acknowledged a cultural and linguistic debt to the
Greeks. Roman intellectuals were normally also fluent in Ancient Greek. Some
of them lamented the fact that Latin could not express abstract concepts and
used Ancient Greek as the source of numerous borrowings, especially in the
domain of philosophy, science and technique. Some others defended the lexical
resources of Latin and preferred to imitate Ancient Greek by means of more
indirect calques. In any case, the comparison between Latin and Ancient Greek
vocabulary remains a crucial topic in the Latin rhetorical tradition. This
comparison can be extended from the lexicon to grammar, since some syntactic
constructions may not be equally natural in both languages. On the other hand,
the Romans were not particularly interested in the languages and cultures of
their conquered countries: apart from Ancient Greek, they found it natural to
destroy “tot populorum discordes ferasque linguas” (Plin. 3,39) and to
complement their military expansion with a complete linguistic control of
their provinces. Still, Latin has always exhibited cases of dialectal
variation as well as language contact with Sabellic and with other
Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages of Ancient Italy and of the
Mediterranean. Similarly, despite the Roman official policy of language
globalization, multilingualism persisted for centuries in the Roman Empire,
which is to be expected given its geographical breadth, and numerous examples
of bilingualism are attested between Latin and Gaulish, Punic, Berber,
Aramaic, etc. These often-fragmentary texts are rarely investigated in Latin
linguistic studies, not only because of their intrinsic philological
difficulties, but also because Latin has been traditionally presented as a
quite homogeneous language, at least in its classical period, transmitted by a
consistent literary tradition with specific models of correct grammar and
elegant style, so that manifestations of internal variation and external
contact have been often neglected. Moreover, in the history of the Latin
language, sources of linguistic interference may change. In the late periods
of the Roman Empire, Latin especially interacts with Germanic languages in the
North and with Semitic languages, such as Aramaic, in the South and in the
East of its territories. These influences may affect different lexical or
grammatical domains and may be especially relevant in different genres and
text types. Some Germanic borrowings concerning colours, such as *blank
“white”, *brūns “brown”, *grīs “grey”, originally described horse coats and
were introduced in Vulgar Latin by Germanic soldiers integrated in the ranks
of the Roman legions; these borrowings will become basic color terms in
several Romance languages. Semitic borrowings, in both lexicon and grammar,
are especially apparent in religious texts related to the early Christian
tradition, which may represent translations of the Hebrew Bible or original
commentaries of it. However, some grammatical deviances in agreement, in the
use of tenses and moods, in clause linkage, etc. from Classical Latin, which
have been traditionally ascribed to features of Hebrew phraseology, also find
parallels in substandard varieties of Latin from archaic to imperial ages, so
it may be controversial to establish whether they are more effectively
triggered by external or internal mechanisms of language change. In this
workshop, we will discuss various manifestations of linguistic variation and
language contact between Latin and other languages of the Roman Republic and
of the Roman Empire, which accompanied the intense exchanges of artefacts,
material products, literary motives and ideas through the Ancient
Mediterranean.


Call for Papers:

We invite papers devoted to Latin in contact with other languages and
cultures. You can send your abstract (not exceeding 500 words, exclusive of
references) to 21icllsantiago at gmail.com 
Deadline is January 15 for this workshop (differently from the general
deadline of the conference but still in agreement with the conference
organizers). Please state that your submission is to be considered for this
workshop. For more information, see the website above.




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