Greek and Latin in contact: Roman Corinth

希腊语和拉丁语的联系：罗马科林斯

• 批准号: 2291311
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Manchester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2291311
• 关键词: Greek; Latin; contact; Roman; Corinth

The influence of English, among others, has drawn a lot of attention, since it is the lingua franca of our society. Compared to the modern situation, Latin was the lingua franca of the Roman Empire. For these reasons, even though it is well known that Greek was considered the language of culture among Romans and has had a clear influence on Latin, Latin influence on Greek deserves more attention. The aim of this research is to evaluate the Latin influence (especially morphological and syntactic) in a selection of Greek inscriptions. These works deal with crucial aspects of language contact and bilingualism between Latin and Greek in the ancient world but with a different focus than the one that I will adopt in the proposed research. They either focus on the Latin language or examine only textual material from the earlier phases of the Roman domination or different territories of the Roman empire. What is yet to be done is the analysis of morphological and syntactic features that show Latin influence on Greek in epigraphic material from the imperial period in Corinth. Based on both the findings of historical socio-linguistics and the previously mentioned studies, some of the main problems that this research aims to investigate are the following:What are the distinctive features of the texts under examination?Can it be determined if the use of Latin in the texts was conscious and intended?Are there numerous examples of single-word and/or syntactic switches from one language to the other?How do these aspects of language use in Corinth compare to usage elsewhere during the same period?Can a chronological development be observed in these findings?The study will be corpus-based. The Corinthian inscriptions written over the period under examination are found mostly in the volumes Meritt (1931) and Kent (1966), which collect the results of excavations in the city. Others are collected in volume IV of the Inscriptiones Graecae. In addition, the recent publication (2016) of the Inscriptiones Graecae IV2 (fasc. 3) made available new material produced between IV and VI AD, which makes this a timely study. The Greek inscriptions produced during the period investigated number approximately 500-600.The results of the analysis of the Corinthian inscriptions will be compared with the ones obtained from the study of other material produced in the same period, first of all epigraphic, but also papyrological and literary. The epigraphic sources will be taken for example from Athens, Patras, Olympia and from other cities belonging to different provinces of the empire, like Alexandria in Egypt, Istros, Tomis and Callatis in Moesia Inferior etc., taking into account that Corinth was not a "normal" Greek city in the Roman empire (König 2001). The approach to the study will be fundamentally interdisciplinary since the linguistic characteristics of the texts depend on the historical and social context in which they had been produced.

英语等的影响引起了很多关注，因为它是我们社会的通用语言。与现代情况相比，拉丁语是罗马帝国的通用语言。出于这些原因，尽管众所周知，希腊语被认为是罗马人的文化语言，并且对拉丁语产生了明显的影响，但拉丁语对希腊语的影响值得更多关注。本研究的目的是评估拉丁语对精选希腊铭文的影响（尤其是形态和句法）。这些著作涉及古代世界拉丁语和希腊语之间的语言接触和双语的关键方面，但与我将在拟议研究中采用的重点不同。他们要么专注于拉丁语，要么只研究罗马统治早期或罗马帝国不同领土的文本材料。尚未完成的是对形态和句法特征的分析，这些特征显示了科林斯帝国时期铭文材料中拉丁语对希腊语的影响。基于历史社会语言学的发现和前面提到的研究，本研究旨在调查的一些主要问题如下：所检查文本的显着特征是什么？能否确定文本中拉丁语的使用是否是有意识和有意的？是否存在从一种语言到另一种语言的单词和/或句法转换的大量例子？科林斯语言使用的这些方面与同一时期其他地方的使用情况相比如何？ 时期？可以在这些发现中观察到按时间顺序的发展吗？该研究将基于语料库。在检查期间写下的科林斯铭文主要见于 Meritt (1931) 和 Kent (1966) 两卷书中，这些卷册收集了该市的发掘结果。其他的则收录在 Inscriptiones Graecae 的第四卷中。此外，最近出版的 Inscriptiones Graecae IV2 (fasc.3)（2016 年）提供了公元四世和六世之间产生的新材料，这使得这项研究变得及时。调查期间产生的希腊铭文数量约为 500-600 个。科林斯铭文的分析结果将与对同一时期产生的其他材料的研究所获得的结果进行比较，首先是碑文，还有纸卷学和文学材料。例如，铭文来源将取自雅典、帕特雷、奥林匹亚以及属于帝国不同省份的其他城市，如埃及的亚历山大、下莫西亚的伊斯特罗斯、托米斯和卡拉蒂斯等，考虑到科林斯不是罗马帝国的“正常”希腊城市(König 2001)。研究方法从根本上来说是跨学科的，因为文本的语言特征取决于它们产生的历史和社会背景。