Social Variation and the Latin Language
Social Variation and the Latin Language
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New York: Cambridge University Press
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2013
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English
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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 t...
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Social Variation and the Latin Language
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TN_cdi_askewsholts_vlebooks_9781107357198
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_askewsholts_vlebooks_9781107357198
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9780521886147,0521886147,9781316629499,131662949X
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10.1017/CBO9780511843433
