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Latin in Byzantium: Different forms of Linguistic Contact

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The linguistic Latinization of the East is a non-linear trend, characterised by continuities, interruptions, and role reversals, each of them representing a different combination of bilingual and diglossic phenomena, as well as different degrees of literacy in Latin as a first or second language. This chapter provides the reader with a preliminary clarification. It begins by outlining some incidents of ‘imperfect bilingualism’ in the East (§1). Then it examines and contextualises the following four, non-overlapping case-studies that represent distinct aspects of the above trend: Constantine’s linguistic 'nationalism' (§2), cases of multilingualism in Constantinople during the second half of the fourth century (§3), ‘dual-lingualism’ under Theodosius II (§4), and interlinguistic forms of communication under Justinian (§5). A final section touches on the problem of unilingualism in the subsequent period (§6).
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Alessandro Garcea. Latin in Byzantium: Different forms of Linguistic Contact. Alessandro Garcea; Michela Rosellini; Luigi Silvano. Latin in Byzantium I. Late Antiquity and Beyond, Corpus Christianorum. Lingua Patrum (XII), Brepols, pp.43-70, 2019. ⟨halshs-02427754⟩
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