A multidisciplinary analysis of non-literary Latin texts from Roman Britain

Cotugno, Francesca

Abstract

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-

Citation

Cotugno, F. (2018). A multidisciplinary analysis of non-literary Latin texts from Roman Britain. Graeco-Latina Brunensia, 23(1), 35-47. https://doi.org/10.5817/glb2018-1-3

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Mar 31, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Jun 25, 2018
• Publication Date: Jun 25, 2018
• Deposit Date: Oct 26, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 26, 2019
• Journal: Graeco-Latina Brunensia
• Print ISSN: 1803-7402
• Electronic ISSN: 2336-4424
• Publisher: Masarykova Univerzita, Filozoficka Fakulta
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 35-47
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5817/glb2018-1-3
• Keywords: Classics; Linguistics and Language; Archaeology; Archaeology; History; Language and Linguistics
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1178879
• Publisher URL: https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/handle/11222.digilib/138096