Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-334) and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction / T.V. Evans and D.D. Obbink -- Pt. I, Linguistic change and diversity. Auxiliary thélō / John A.L. Lee ; Linguistics diversity in the archive of the engineers Kleon and Theodoros / Willy Clarysse ; Identifying the language of the individual in the Zenon archive / T.V. Evans ; Authorial revision of linguistic style in Greek papyrus letters and petitions, AD i-iv / R. Luiselli ; Imperatives and other directives in the Greek letters from Mons Claudianus / Martti Leiwo ; Do mothers matter? The emergence of metronymics in early Roman Egypt / Mark Depauw ; Variation in complementation to impersonal verba declarandi in Greek papyri from the Roman and Byzantine periods / Patrick James ; Romanes eunt domus! Linguistic aspects of the sub-literary Latin in Pompeian wall inscriptions / Peter Kruschwitz ; Linguistic varieties and language level in Latin non-literary letters / Hilla Halla-Aho -- Pt. II, Language contact. Language contact and personal names in early Ptolemaic Egypt / Brian Muhs ; Bilinguilism in Roman Egypt? Exploring the archive of Phatres of Narmuthis / I.C. Rutherford ; Latin influence and Greek request formulae / Eleanor Dickey ; Greek papyri and Graeco-Latin hybrid compounds / Panagiotis Filos ; Vina fictitia from Latin into Greek : the evidence of the papyri / Anastasia Maravela-Solbakk ; Lexical translations in the papyri : Koine Greek, Greek dialects, and foreign languages / Francesca Schironi ; Building and examining linguistic phenomena in a corpus of representative papyri / S.E. Porter and M.B. O'Donnell.
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