Martti Leiwo
Biographic Data
| ID | 5717879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martti Leiwo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martti |
| FAMILY NAME | Leiwo |
| SIGNATURE | LEIWO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3761-3009 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
L2 Greek in Roman Egypt
This paper will focus on analysing user-related variation in Greek in Egypt as seen through potsherd letters ( ostraka ) of the residents of Roman forts, praesidia , in the Eastern Desert of Egypt. The letters can be dated to the first and second centuries CE. I suggest that the linguistic situation in the forts can be seen as evidence of extensive language contact that was connected with the considerable economic activity of the Roman Empire. Al…
Variation and change in Greek and Latin
From Contact to Mixture
Speakers of Greek and Latin were in contact for several hundred years. This chapter proposes a typology for distinct language contact features in the light of epigraphy, and discusses Latin-Greek contact in Italy through the language transmitted by Christian and Jewish speech communities from the third to the sixth century AD. Two distinct conceptions should be kept in mind: languages in contact and contact languages. When languages are in contac…
A Marriage Contract
In this paper we approach a Latin marriage contract from Philadelphia, Egypt, taking into account various viewpoints. The document is written in Latin, a language that was not commonly used in the community. As a result of the language choice the contract offers a possibility for a contact linguistic analysis. The names of the father of the bride and the future husband, Nomissianus and M. Petronius Servillius respectively, are Roman, so there pro…
A Marriage Contract
In this paper we approach a Latin marriage contract from Philadelphia, Egypt, taking into account various viewpoints. The document is written in Latin, a language that was not commonly used in the community. As a result of the language choice the contract offers a possibility for a contact linguistic analysis. The names of the father of the bride and the future husband, Nomissianus and M. Petronius Servillius respectively, are Roman, so there pro…
From Contact to Mixture
Speakers of Greek and Latin were in contact for several hundred years. This chapter proposes a typology for distinct language contact features in the light of epigraphy, and discusses Latin-Greek contact in Italy through the language transmitted by Christian and Jewish speech communities from the third to the sixth century AD. Two distinct conceptions should be kept in mind: languages in contact and contact languages. When languages are in contac…
A Marriage Contract
In this paper we approach a Latin marriage contract from Philadelphia, Egypt, taking into account various viewpoints. The document is written in Latin, a language that was not commonly used in the community. As a result of the language choice the contract offers a possibility for a contact linguistic analysis. The names of the father of the bride and the future husband, Nomissianus and M. Petronius Servillius respectively, are Roman, so there pro…
Variation and change in Greek and Latin
L2 Greek in Roman Egypt
This paper will focus on analysing user-related variation in Greek in Egypt as seen through potsherd letters ( ostraka ) of the residents of Roman forts, praesidia , in the Eastern Desert of Egypt. The letters can be dated to the first and second centuries CE. I suggest that the linguistic situation in the forts can be seen as evidence of extensive language contact that was connected with the considerable economic activity of the Roman Empire. Al…
Classics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (2 works) · Language contact (2 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (2 works) · Ancient Greek (1 works) · Ancient history (1 works)