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Papers by James Clackson

Research paper thumbnail of Indo-European

The Ancient Languages of Europe, 2008

Research paper thumbnail of Verbal morphology

Research paper thumbnail of Nominal morphology

Research paper thumbnail of The Indo-European language family

Research paper thumbnail of Oscan in Sicily

Language and Linguistic Contact in Ancient Sicily, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of A companion to the Latin language

... W. Kallendorf A Companion to Roman Rhetoric Edited by William Dominik and Jon Hall A Companio... more ... W. Kallendorf A Companion to Roman Rhetoric Edited by William Dominik and Jon Hall A Companion to Greek Rhetoric Edited by Ian Worthington A Companion to Ancient Epic Edited by John Miles Foley A Companion to Greek Tragedy Edited by Justina Gregory A ... Adelphi An ...

Research paper thumbnail of Dangerous Lunatics: Comparative Philology in Cambridge and Beyond

Research paper thumbnail of Latinitas, Ἑλληνισμός and standard languages

In this paper, I ask whether we can usefully relate the terms Latinitas and Hellenismos with the ... more In this paper, I ask whether we can usefully relate the terms Latinitas and Hellenismos with the modern concept of ‘Standard Languages’, and I examine the similarities and differences between ancient and modern notions of ‘correct’ language. The Greek term Hellenismos is recognized to have covered a wider range of linguistic varieties than encompassed under modern standard languages, and I argue that in the late Republic and the first century of the Roman Empire Latinitas was a similarly elastic concept. Through the example of variant orthographic practices in epigraphically attested legal texts, I show that there was considerable variation in written Latin texts throughout this period. Latin was not yet fully standardized (in the modern sense of the term) in the year 100 AD.

Research paper thumbnail of Indo-European word formation : proceedings of the conference held at the University of Copenhagen, October 20th-22nd 2000

This book contains twenty articles on the subject of derivational morphology in Indo-European lan... more This book contains twenty articles on the subject of derivational morphology in Indo-European languages, and is the result of the conference "Indo-European Word Formation", held in Copenhagen, October 20th - 22nd 2000. The papers, covering all areas of Indo-European, make substantial contributions to the current intensive research on word formation, and many of them break new ground or shed new light on old problems. While some contributions are particularly concerned with the construction of theoretical models of Indo-European, others continue the traditional philological research into corpus languages. Finally, such issues as the borderland between morphology and syntax and the potential connection between Indo-European and other language families are brought up for discussion. Contributions by: Fabrice Cavoto, Paul S. Cohen, George Dunkel, Adam Hyllested, Britta Irslinger, Folke Josephson, Konstantin Krasukhin, Martin Kummel, Jenny Larsson, Rosemarie Luhr, Michael Meier...

Research paper thumbnail of 64. The lexicon of Armenian

Research paper thumbnail of A. WILLI Origins of the Greek Verb. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xxxi + 713. £120. 9781107195554

The Journal of Hellenic Studies

Research paper thumbnail of Arms and the Boy: On the New Festival Calendar from Arkadia

Research paper thumbnail of World Philology ed. by Sheldon Pollock, Benjamin A. Elman, and Kevin Ku-Ming Chang

Journal of World History, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Latin as a source for the Romance languages

The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Language variation

Language and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Arm. Ariw 'blood

Depuis 1897 (Hubschmann), le mot armenien ariwn 'sang' est considere comme le cognat d&#3... more Depuis 1897 (Hubschmann), le mot armenien ariwn 'sang' est considere comme le cognat d'autres mots, correspondant egalement a 'sang', dans d'autres langues indo-europeennes. Les differentes formes apparentees connues aujourd'hui proviennent du hittite, du grec, du tokharien, du vedique, du latin et du lette. Les voyelles initiales de ces mots sont de deux types : 1. *e- (pour le grec, le hittite, ...) et 2. *a- (pour le latin, le lette...). L'A. etudie l'origine de la voyelle initiale du mot armenien arwin et cherche a montrer que ce mot derive d'une forme pre-armenienne dont l'initiale est *a < *h1-

Research paper thumbnail of The Comparative Method and Comparative Reconstruction

The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Syntax, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of The language of a Pompeian tavern: submerged Latin?

Early and Late Latin, 2000

A discussion of the language of CIL 4. 3494

Research paper thumbnail of R. MASSARELLI, I TESTI ETRUSCHI SU PIOMBO (Biblioteca di studi etruschi 53). Pisa/Rome: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2014. Pp. 320, illus.isbn 9788862275712. €585.00

Journal of Roman Studies, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of A Greek payrus in Armenian script

Zeitschrift Fur Papyrologie Und Epigraphik, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of Indo-European

The Ancient Languages of Europe, 2008

Research paper thumbnail of Verbal morphology

Research paper thumbnail of Nominal morphology

Research paper thumbnail of The Indo-European language family

Research paper thumbnail of Oscan in Sicily

Language and Linguistic Contact in Ancient Sicily, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of A companion to the Latin language

... W. Kallendorf A Companion to Roman Rhetoric Edited by William Dominik and Jon Hall A Companio... more ... W. Kallendorf A Companion to Roman Rhetoric Edited by William Dominik and Jon Hall A Companion to Greek Rhetoric Edited by Ian Worthington A Companion to Ancient Epic Edited by John Miles Foley A Companion to Greek Tragedy Edited by Justina Gregory A ... Adelphi An ...

Research paper thumbnail of Dangerous Lunatics: Comparative Philology in Cambridge and Beyond

Research paper thumbnail of Latinitas, Ἑλληνισμός and standard languages

In this paper, I ask whether we can usefully relate the terms Latinitas and Hellenismos with the ... more In this paper, I ask whether we can usefully relate the terms Latinitas and Hellenismos with the modern concept of ‘Standard Languages’, and I examine the similarities and differences between ancient and modern notions of ‘correct’ language. The Greek term Hellenismos is recognized to have covered a wider range of linguistic varieties than encompassed under modern standard languages, and I argue that in the late Republic and the first century of the Roman Empire Latinitas was a similarly elastic concept. Through the example of variant orthographic practices in epigraphically attested legal texts, I show that there was considerable variation in written Latin texts throughout this period. Latin was not yet fully standardized (in the modern sense of the term) in the year 100 AD.

Research paper thumbnail of Indo-European word formation : proceedings of the conference held at the University of Copenhagen, October 20th-22nd 2000

This book contains twenty articles on the subject of derivational morphology in Indo-European lan... more This book contains twenty articles on the subject of derivational morphology in Indo-European languages, and is the result of the conference "Indo-European Word Formation", held in Copenhagen, October 20th - 22nd 2000. The papers, covering all areas of Indo-European, make substantial contributions to the current intensive research on word formation, and many of them break new ground or shed new light on old problems. While some contributions are particularly concerned with the construction of theoretical models of Indo-European, others continue the traditional philological research into corpus languages. Finally, such issues as the borderland between morphology and syntax and the potential connection between Indo-European and other language families are brought up for discussion. Contributions by: Fabrice Cavoto, Paul S. Cohen, George Dunkel, Adam Hyllested, Britta Irslinger, Folke Josephson, Konstantin Krasukhin, Martin Kummel, Jenny Larsson, Rosemarie Luhr, Michael Meier...

Research paper thumbnail of 64. The lexicon of Armenian

Research paper thumbnail of A. WILLI Origins of the Greek Verb. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xxxi + 713. £120. 9781107195554

The Journal of Hellenic Studies

Research paper thumbnail of Arms and the Boy: On the New Festival Calendar from Arkadia

Research paper thumbnail of World Philology ed. by Sheldon Pollock, Benjamin A. Elman, and Kevin Ku-Ming Chang

Journal of World History, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Latin as a source for the Romance languages

The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Language variation

Language and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Arm. Ariw 'blood

Depuis 1897 (Hubschmann), le mot armenien ariwn 'sang' est considere comme le cognat d&#3... more Depuis 1897 (Hubschmann), le mot armenien ariwn 'sang' est considere comme le cognat d'autres mots, correspondant egalement a 'sang', dans d'autres langues indo-europeennes. Les differentes formes apparentees connues aujourd'hui proviennent du hittite, du grec, du tokharien, du vedique, du latin et du lette. Les voyelles initiales de ces mots sont de deux types : 1. *e- (pour le grec, le hittite, ...) et 2. *a- (pour le latin, le lette...). L'A. etudie l'origine de la voyelle initiale du mot armenien arwin et cherche a montrer que ce mot derive d'une forme pre-armenienne dont l'initiale est *a < *h1-

Research paper thumbnail of The Comparative Method and Comparative Reconstruction

The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Syntax, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of The language of a Pompeian tavern: submerged Latin?

Early and Late Latin, 2000

A discussion of the language of CIL 4. 3494

Research paper thumbnail of R. MASSARELLI, I TESTI ETRUSCHI SU PIOMBO (Biblioteca di studi etruschi 53). Pisa/Rome: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2014. Pp. 320, illus.isbn 9788862275712. €585.00

Journal of Roman Studies, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of A Greek payrus in Armenian script

Zeitschrift Fur Papyrologie Und Epigraphik, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of Archaic Latin Prose

The Journal of Roman Studies, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of Verbis pingendis. Contributions to the Study of Ritual Speech and Mythopoieia

Research paper thumbnail of E. Courtney, Archaic Latin Prose (American Philological Association, American Classical Studies 42). Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press, 1999. Pp. xii + 164. ISBN 0-7885-0545-9. US$12.95

Journal of Roman Studies, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of R. Risselada, J. R. de Jong and A. M. Bolkestein (eds), On Latin: Linguistic and Literary Studies in Honour of Harm Pinkster. Amsterdam: Gieben, 1996. Pp. xii + 202, 1 pl. ISBN 90-5063-137-1. Fl. 80

Journal of Roman Studies, 1998

Research paper thumbnail of P. Burton, The Old Latin Gospels. A Study of their Texts and Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. x + 232. ISBN 0-1982-6988-9. £45.00

Journal of Roman Studies, 2002

Research paper thumbnail of Reviews E. BENELLI (ed.) THESAURUS LINGUAE ETRUSCAE. 1. INDICE LESSICALE. Seconda Edizione. Pisa/Rome: Fabrizio Serra, 2009. Pp. xxxiv + 580. ISBN 8-8622-7147-6/978-8-8622-7147-9. €445.00

Journal of Roman Studies, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of THESAURUS LINGUAE ETRUSCAE. 1. INDICE LESSICALE. Seconda Edizioneby E. BENELLI

Research paper thumbnail of THE OLD LATIN GOSPELS (Book)

Journal of Roman Studies, 2002

Research paper thumbnail of J. N. ADAMS,SOCIAL VARIATION AND THE LATIN LANGUAGE.Cambridge:Cambridge University Press,2013. Pp. xxi + 933.isbn9780521886147. £110.00

Journal of Roman Studies, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of Linguistics (F.R.) Adrados A History of the Greek Language. From its Origins to the Present. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2005. Pp. xix + 345. 99. 9004128352

The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Reception and history of scholarship (P.) Hummel De Lingua Graeca: Histoire de l'histoire de la langue grecque. Bern: Peter Lang, 2007. Pp. xiii + 851. £58.70. 9783039112258

The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 2009

Research paper thumbnail of (D.W.) Anthony The Horse, the Wheel, and Language. How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes shaped the Modern World. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp xii + 553. £24.95. 9780691058870

The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of Conditions and Conditionals: An Investigation of Ancient Greek

The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1995

Research paper thumbnail of MICHAEL E. STONE, DICKRAN KOUYMJIAN and HENNING LEHMANN: Album of Armenian paleography. 554 pp. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2002. £126.75

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 2003

... hands. But since the author's policy is to make the evidence available and to indicate s... more ... hands. But since the author's policy is to make the evidence available and to indicate specifically what remains doubtful, it is now up to future scholarship to check and, if necessary, to correct the judgements put forward here. ...

Research paper thumbnail of L. T. Massaro: Sintassi del Greco Antico e Tradizione Grammaticale, I. (Subsidia philologica, 2.) Pp. 253. Palermo: L'Epos, 1993. Cased, L 43,000

The Classical Review, 1995

Research paper thumbnail of P. Jackson: Verbis pingendis. Contributions to the Study of Ritual Speech and Mythopoieia . (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft: Vorträge und Kleinere Schriften 72.) Pp. 71. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, 2002. Paper, €16. ISBN:3-85124-685-3

The Classical Review, 2003

Research paper thumbnail of Greek Lexicography J. Chadwick: Lexicographica Graeca: Contributions to the Lexicography of Ancient Greek . Pp. vi + 343. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. ISBN: 0-19-814970-0

The Classical Review, 1999

Research paper thumbnail of The Perfect System in Latin G. Meiser: Veni Vidi Vici. Die Vorgeschichte des lateinischen Perfektsystems . (Zetemata 113.) Pp. xxii + 278. Munich: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2003. Paper, €59.90. ISBN: 3-406-49628-8

The Classical Review, 2005

Research paper thumbnail of Fortson IV (B.W.) Indo-European Language and Culture. An Introduction . (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics 19.) Pp. xviii + 468, maps. Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. Cased, £65 (Paper, £24.99). ISBN: 1-4051-0315-9 (1-4051-0316-7 pbk)

The Classical Review, 2006

Research paper thumbnail of Stuart-Smith (J.) Phonetics and Philology. Sound Change in Italic . Pp. xxiv + 270, maps, ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Cased, £45. ISBN: 0-19-925773-6

The Classical Review, 2006

Research paper thumbnail of Language and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds

Research paper thumbnail of J. Clackson (ed.) A Companion to the Latin Language

Research paper thumbnail of A. BOUD'HORS, J. CLACKSON, C. LOUIS & P. SIJPESTEIJN (ed.), Monastic Estates in Late Antique and Early Islamic Egypt. Ostraca, Papyri, and Essays in Memory of Sarah Clackson (P.Clackson)

... A. BOUD'HORS, J. CLACKSON, C. LOUIS & P. SIJPESTEIJN (éd.), Monastic Estates in Late ... more ... A. BOUD'HORS, J. CLACKSON, C. LOUIS & P. SIJPESTEIJN (éd.), Monastic Estates in Late ANtique and Early Islamic Egypt. Ostraca, Papyri, and Essays in Memory of Sarah Clackson (ASP 46), (2009) XXX. A. BOUD'HORS ...

Research paper thumbnail of J. Clackson and G. Horrocks, The Blackwell history of the Latin language

This text makes use of contemporary work in linguistics to provide up-to-date commentary on the d... more This text makes use of contemporary work in linguistics to provide up-to-date commentary on the development of Latin, from its prehistoric origins in the Indo-European language family, through the earliest texts, to the creation of the Classical Language of Cicero and Vergil, ...

Research paper thumbnail of Indo-European linguistics: an introduction

... But there has been no advance on Jones&amp;amp;#x27; criterion for relatedness between la... more ... But there has been no advance on Jones&amp;amp;#x27; criterion for relatedness between languages of the family: greater similarity in verbal roots and morphological ... The Indo-European language family 3 for the linguist to extract lexical and grammatical information, it is possible to apply the ...

Research paper thumbnail of James Clackson and Birgit Anette Olsen (eds.) Indo-European word formation: proceedings of the conference held at the University of Copenhagen, October 20th-22nd 2000

This book contains twenty articles on the subject of derivational morphology in Indo-European lan... more This book contains twenty articles on the subject of derivational morphology in Indo-European languages, and is the result of the conference" Indo-European Word Formation", held in Copenhagen, October 20th-22nd 2000. The papers, covering all areas of Indo-...

Research paper thumbnail of The linguistic relationship between Armenian and Greek

Research paper thumbnail of 2016. Arms and the Boy: On the New Festival Calendar from Arkadia (with James Clackson)

Kernos, 2016

In 2015, a tablet containing an archaic inscription of considerable length from Arkadia, which ha... more In 2015, a tablet containing an archaic inscription of considerable length from Arkadia, which had appeared on the antiquities market, was “pre-published”. The present article offers: (1) a new edition of the text from autopsy and two photographs, along with (2) an English translation. Since the inscription contains many unusual linguistic and ritual details, an extensive line-by-line commentary on the text (3), as well as a study of the script and dialect (4), are also proposed. Developing this commentary, a further section (5) offers an analysis of the typology of the text, identifying it as a calendar for a three­day (τριανβρ ς) festival, which recurred in different cycles (annual, biennial/trieteric, and enneateric). This festival was concerned with multiple communities, sanctuaries, and deities, perhaps especially with Zeus. By way of conclusion (Envoi), an attempt at a general appraisal of the tablet is presented: issuing perhaps from the sanctuary of Mount Lykaion or from Methydrion, the regulation was closely linked to the Arkadian myths of the birth of Zeus. Every eight years in particular, the armed defense of his mother Rhea was celebrated (the Hoplodmia), announcing the rise of the new king of the gods.