J N Adams
Biographic Data
| ID | 746961 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J N Adams |
| GIVEN NAMES | J N |
| FAMILY NAME | Adams |
| SIGNATURE | ADAMS J N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 159 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Early Latin: Constructs, Diversity, Reception
Asyndeton and its Interpretation in Latin Literature: History, Patterns, Textual Criticism
Asyndetic coordination (omission of coordinators such as 'but', 'or', 'and') is ancient in Indo-European languages. Most commentaries on Greek and Latin texts index 'asyndeton', but wide-ranging treatments of asyndeton across a variety of literary and non-literary genres are largely lacking, and comments are often impressionistic. This book provides the most comprehensive account of asyndeton in Latin ever attempted, and it also contains material…
An Anthology of Informal Latin, 200 BC–AD 900: Fifty Texts with Translations and Linguistic Commentary
This book contains over fifty passages of Latin from 200 BC to AD 900, each with translation and linguistic commentary. It is not intended as an elementary reader (though suitable for university courses), but as an illustrative history of Latin covering more than a millennium, with almost every century represented. Conventional histories cite constructions out of context, whereas this work gives a sense of the period, genre, stylistic aims and id…
Early and Late Latin: Continuity or Change?
This book addresses the question of whether there are continuities in Latin spanning the period from the early Republic through to the Romance languages. It is often maintained that various usages admitted by early comedy were rejected later by the literary language but continued in speech, to resurface centuries later in the written record (and in Romance). Are certain similarities between early and late Latin all that they seem, or might they b…
Social Variation and the Latin Language
Languages show variations according to the social class of speakers and Latin was no exception, as readers of Petronius are aware. The Romance languages have traditionally been regarded as developing out of a 'language of the common people' (Vulgar Latin), but studies of modern languages demonstrate that linguistic change does not merely come, in the social sense, 'from below'. There is change from above, as prestige usages work their way down th…
Late Latin
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction: The Term “Late Latin” A Specimen of Late Latin Some Important Developments, and the Notion of “Vulgar Latin” Gender Phonology Future Tense Reported Speech General Conclusions Further Reading
The Regional Diversification of Latin 200 BC - AD 600
Classical Latin appears to be without regional dialects, yet Latin evolved in little more than a millennium into a variety of different languages (the Romance languages: Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese etc.). Was regional diversity apparent from the earliest times, obscured perhaps by the standardisation of writing, or did some catastrophic event in late antiquity cause the language to vary? These questions have long intrigued Latinists and …
Assessing college student perceptions of instructor customer service via the Quality of Instructor Service to Students (Qiss) Questionnaire
This study presents the results of a three‐step project designed to: (1) identify what students perceive to be quality service as offered by instructors, (2) relate the dimensions identified to an appropriate survey instrument (the QISS) and pilot‐test the instrument, and (3) survey a stratified representative sample of the undergraduate population with the instrument. A stratified sample of students (N=457) were surveyed using the QISS questionn…
Aspects of the language of Latin prose
Neglected Evidence for Female Speech in Latin
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Bilingualism and the Latin Language
Since the 1980s, bilingualism has become one of the main themes of sociolinguistics - but there are as yet few large-scale treatments of the subject specific to the ancient world. This book is the first work to deal systematically with bilingualism during a period of antiquity (the Roman period, down to about the fourth century AD) in the light of sociolinguistic discussions of bilingual issues. The general theme of the work is the nature of the …
Romanitas ’ and the Latin Language
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The new Vindolanda writing-tablets
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Bilingualism at Delos
In the second century BC, a substantial number of Italian and Greek traders of comparable status came together on the island of Delos, setting up a potential competition between the two public languages on a roughly equal footing. This chapter deals with questions of linguistic identity, that is, the perception which the negotiatores had of themselves and the part played by bilingualism and language choice in the establishment of identities. Othe…
Bilingualism in ancient society: Language Contact and the Written Text
Bilingualism has seen an explosion of work in recent years. This volume introduces classicists, ancient historians and other scholars interested in sociolinguistic research into evidence of bilingualism in the ancient Mediterranean.
Aspects of the language of Latin poetry
The Poets Of Bu Njem: Language, Culture and the Centurionate
A good deal has been written about the origin and recruitment of centurions, but their language use has not been analysed as an index to their literacy, culture, educational levels, and (in some cases) bilingualism. This paper will be about the sociolinguistics of the centurionate. I take as my starting point two poems from Bu Njem in the African desert, one of which has only recently been published for the first time. The military outpost of Bu …
Wackernagel's Law and the Placement of the copula esse in Classical Latin
The Language of the Vindolanda Writing Tablets: An Interim Report
The recent publication by A. K. Bowman and J. D. Thomas of The Vindolanda Writing Tablets (Tabulae Vindolandenses II) (1994) provides another substantial corpus of Latin from a military outpost in the early Empire. The tablets take their place alongside such important military finds as the letters of Claudius Terentianus, which are roughly of the same date, the ostraca from Bu Njem, and the ostraca from Wâdi Fawâkhir, which again are dated to the…
Latin and Punic in Contact? The Case of the Bu Njem Ostraca
The ostraca of Bu Njem come from a military outpost on the North African fringes of the Empire. Vernacular languages were spoken in the area. The ostraca record, among other things, contact between soldiers and the local population, and contain various African (Punic or ‘Libyan’) words and names, some of them previously unrecorded. The soldiers themselves have in many cases African names, or names with a special African connection, and it is like…
A Bibliography of Nineteenth-Century Legal Literature
Journal Article A Bibliography of Nineteenth-Century Legal Literature Get access Adams J.N. Davies M.J., eds., A Bibliography of Nineteenth-Century Legal Literature. 3 vols. Cambridge, England: Avero Publications & Chadwyck-Healey Ltd., Vol. 1. xxix, 1046 pp. L400 per volume (L1,200 total). John V. Orth John V. Orth University of North Carolina School of Law Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal…
Wackernagel's Law and the Position of Unstressed Personal Pronouns in Classical Latin
Weak pronouns in Classical Latin are generally believed to have adopted the second position in their clause, in conformity with Wackernagel's law. In this paper it is shown that pronouns are not regularly placed second at all in Classical prose. They have a tendency, shared by other clitic elements such as the copula and auxiliary verb esse , to seek out the focus of an utterance as their host, even when that focus is not at the start of its clau…
British Latin: The Text, Interpretation and Language of the Bath Curse Tablets
Britain is now the main source of new Latin. Among British finds there are 130 curse tablets from the Sacred Spring at Bath, of roughly the second to fourth centuries A.D., some of them reasonably preserved, others fragmentary. These have recently been published by R.S.O. Tomlin, in a wide-ranging edition. An examination of Tomlin's elegant drawings of the tablets will make obvious to anyone the difficulty of reading the script, and Tomlin has do…
Bald's Leechbook and the Physica Plinii
The study of the sources of the Anglo-Saxon medical texts began more than a hundred years ago with T.O. Cockayne's monumental edition of most of the medical, magical and herbal material extant in Old English. Cockayne demonstrated that the most significant text in this corpus, the late ninth-century compilation known as Bald's Leechbook , drew on an impressive range of Latin source materials. Recent work by C.H. Talbot and M.L. Cameron has furthe…
Notes on the Text, Language and Content of Some New Fragments of Pelagonius
The Ars Veterinaria of the fourth-century writer Pelagonius has hitherto been known only from the MS. Florence, Bibl. Riccardiana 1179 ( R ), a codex copied in 1485 for Politian from an early (lost) manuscript. Apart from this there have only been some palimpsest fragments from Bobbio
Aspects of the language of Latin poetry
The Vocabulary of the Speeches in Tacitus‘ Historical Works
Journal Article THE VOCABULARY OF THE SPEECHES IN TACITUS‘ HISTORICAL WORKS Get access J. N. Adams J. N. Adams University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 20, Issue 1, December 1973, Pages 124–144, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1973.tb00129.x Published: 12 March 2010
Romanitas ’ and the Latin Language
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Conventions of Naming in Cicero
The degrees of formality into which speech can be graded are in no sphere more obvious than in expressions of address and third-person reference. Methods of naming vary according to many factors: the formality of the circumstances in which naming takes place, the nature of the subject under discussion, and the ages, sex, and relative status of the speaker and addressee. Conventions of naming sometimes reflect the rigidity or otherwise of social d…
Wackernagel's Law and the Position of Unstressed Personal Pronouns in Classical Latin
Weak pronouns in Classical Latin are generally believed to have adopted the second position in their clause, in conformity with Wackernagel's law. In this paper it is shown that pronouns are not regularly placed second at all in Classical prose. They have a tendency, shared by other clitic elements such as the copula and auxiliary verb esse , to seek out the focus of an utterance as their host, even when that focus is not at the start of its clau…
Neglected Evidence for Female Speech in Latin
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On the Authorship of the Historia Augusta
Although the biographies known collectively as the Historia Augusta purport to have been written by six different biographers, it has often been thought that their similarities are so numerous that they must be the work of a single author. In this article I shall deal with a piece of linguistic evidence which supports this view. The two scholars who have treated the language of the H.A. in most detail, E. Wölfnin and E. Klebs, attempted to show t…
Latin and Punic in Contact? The Case of the Bu Njem Ostraca
The ostraca of Bu Njem come from a military outpost on the North African fringes of the Empire. Vernacular languages were spoken in the area. The ostraca record, among other things, contact between soldiers and the local population, and contain various African (Punic or ‘Libyan’) words and names, some of them previously unrecorded. The soldiers themselves have in many cases African names, or names with a special African connection, and it is like…
Bald's Leechbook and the Physica Plinii
The study of the sources of the Anglo-Saxon medical texts began more than a hundred years ago with T.O. Cockayne's monumental edition of most of the medical, magical and herbal material extant in Old English. Cockayne demonstrated that the most significant text in this corpus, the late ninth-century compilation known as Bald's Leechbook , drew on an impressive range of Latin source materials. Recent work by C.H. Talbot and M.L. Cameron has furthe…
Some Neglected Evidence for Latin Habeo With Infinitive: The Order of the Constituents
Notes on Pelagonius
The text of the fourth-century veterinary writer Pelagonius, recently edited for the first time this century and greatly improved by K.-D. Fischer, poses many problems for an editor. The Latinity of Pelagonius himself in the epistles which precede various chapters is awkward and difficult to understand. Much of the rest of the work is a compilation, not all of it Pelagonius' own work, based on a variety of sources from the magical to the scientif…
The Poets Of Bu Njem: Language, Culture and the Centurionate
A good deal has been written about the origin and recruitment of centurions, but their language use has not been analysed as an index to their literacy, culture, educational levels, and (in some cases) bilingualism. This paper will be about the sociolinguistics of the centurionate. I take as my starting point two poems from Bu Njem in the African desert, one of which has only recently been published for the first time. The military outpost of Bu …
Filocalus as an Epithet of Horse Owners in Pelagonius: Its Origin and Meaning
A Type of Sexual Euphemism in Latin
A COMMON FORM of euphemism is the omission of a sexual word which can be supplied from the context. The writer or speaker may deliberately break off an utterance, perhaps adding an apology or explanation for his silence (aposiopesis: see the examples given at Rhet. Her. 4.41, Quint. 9.2.54), or he may adopt a well established elliptical usage which had its origin in the deletion of a sexual term. A striking example of protracted avoidance of sexu…
The Language of the Later Books of Tacitus' Annals
The demonstration by E. Wölfflin that between the Histories and Annals Tacitus progressed towards a more archaic and artificial style is well known. From the outset Tacitus adhered to the traditional Roman view that history should be composed in an archaic language remote from everyday usage ; but he was apparently at first not fully aware of the possibilities of the archaizing style. New archaisms and artificial usages suggested themselves as he…
A Type of Hyperbaton in Latin Prose
False generalisations have often been made about the use of hyperbaton in Latin prose. According to Hofmann-Szantyr, for instance, ‘die klass. Prosa geht im Gebrauch des Hyperbatons...kaum über die Praxis des Aldateins hinaus'. The same scholars also imply that even when Cicero and Caesar do separate a substantive from its attribute, the separating word is seldom a verb. Again, E. Fraenkel, while showing that long disjunctions are common in Cicer…
On the Authorship of the Historia Augusta
Although the biographies known collectively as the Historia Augusta purport to have been written by six different biographers, it has often been thought that their similarities are so numerous that they must be the work of a single author. In this article I shall deal with a piece of linguistic evidence which supports this view. The two scholars who have treated the language of the H.A. in most detail, E. Wölfnin and E. Klebs, attempted to show t…
The Language of the Later Books of Tacitus' Annals
The demonstration by E. Wölfflin that between the Histories and Annals Tacitus progressed towards a more archaic and artificial style is well known. From the outset Tacitus adhered to the traditional Roman view that history should be composed in an archaic language remote from everyday usage ; but he was apparently at first not fully aware of the possibilities of the archaizing style. New archaisms and artificial usages suggested themselves as he…
The Vocabulary of the Speeches in Tacitus‘ Historical Works
Journal Article THE VOCABULARY OF THE SPEECHES IN TACITUS‘ HISTORICAL WORKS Get access J. N. Adams J. N. Adams University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 20, Issue 1, December 1973, Pages 124–144, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1973.tb00129.x Published: 12 March 2010
On The Semantic Field ‘Put-Throw’ in Latin
It is well known that mitto comes to mean ‘put’ in late Latin and that it shows reflexes with this sense in the Romance languages (e.g. It. mettere , Fr. mettre , Sp. meter ). But the nature of this semantic change has not been fully explained, nor has the relationship of the word with other placing-terms in Latin. E. Löfstedt has stated simply that it ‘takes over the meaning ot ponere ’.2 But as pono itself remains common in all types of Latin, …
The Latin of the Vindolanda Writing Tablets
Journal Article THE LATIN OF THE VINDOLANDA WRITING TABLETS Get access J. N. Adams J. N. Adams University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 22, Issue 1, December 1975, Pages 20–24, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1975.tb00330.x Published: 12 March 2010
Conventions of Naming in Cicero
The degrees of formality into which speech can be graded are in no sphere more obvious than in expressions of address and third-person reference. Methods of naming vary according to many factors: the formality of the circumstances in which naming takes place, the nature of the subject under discussion, and the ages, sex, and relative status of the speaker and addressee. Conventions of naming sometimes reflect the rigidity or otherwise of social d…
Law and The Rise of Capitalism
Anatomical Terminology in Latin Epic
Journal Article ANATOMICAL TERMINOLOGY IN LATIN EPIC Get access J. N. Adams J. N. Adams University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 27, Issue 1, December 1980, Pages 50–62, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1980.tb00402.x Published: 12 March 2010
A Type of Sexual Euphemism in Latin
A COMMON FORM of euphemism is the omission of a sexual word which can be supplied from the context. The writer or speaker may deliberately break off an utterance, perhaps adding an apology or explanation for his silence (aposiopesis: see the examples given at Rhet. Her. 4.41, Quint. 9.2.54), or he may adopt a well established elliptical usage which had its origin in the deletion of a sexual term. A striking example of protracted avoidance of sexu…
The Latin Sexual Vocabulary
The Latin Sexual Vocabulary
A Medical Theory and the Text at Lactantius, Mort. persec. 33.7 and Pelagonius 347
It would be a mistake to attempt to identify in modern terms the disease of Galerius described so graphically by Lactantius, Mort. 33 (cf. the similar description at Eus. H.E. 8.16). Consumption by lice or worms, if not genital ‘gangrene’, was a typical end for a tyrant or the impious, and there must be an element of literary exaggeration in Lactantius' account. But whatever one makes of the nature of the illness, Lactantius did set out to give t…
The Latin Sexual Vocabulary
Two Letters from Vindolanda
In this article we offer editions of two texts which were discovered at Vindolanda in the excavation seasons of 1986 and 1988, respectively. Both the letters are complete and are of exceptional interest from the linguistic point of view, as well as for the information which they yield on a variety of points of military, social and economic history.
Filocalus as an Epithet of Horse Owners in Pelagonius: Its Origin and Meaning
The Meaning of Vulsus in Veterinary Latin
Journal Article THE MEANING OF VULSUS IN VETERINARY LATIN Get access J. N. ADAMS J. N. ADAMS University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 37, Issue 1, December 1990, Pages 153–162, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1990.tb00226.x Published: 12 March 2010
Notes on Pelagonius
The text of the fourth-century veterinary writer Pelagonius, recently edited for the first time this century and greatly improved by K.-D. Fischer, poses many problems for an editor. The Latinity of Pelagonius himself in the epistles which precede various chapters is awkward and difficult to understand. Much of the rest of the work is a compilation, not all of it Pelagonius' own work, based on a variety of sources from the magical to the scientif…
Some Neglected Evidence for Latin Habeo With Infinitive: The Order of the Constituents
British Latin: The Text, Interpretation and Language of the Bath Curse Tablets
Britain is now the main source of new Latin. Among British finds there are 130 curse tablets from the Sacred Spring at Bath, of roughly the second to fourth centuries A.D., some of them reasonably preserved, others fragmentary. These have recently been published by R.S.O. Tomlin, in a wide-ranging edition. An examination of Tomlin's elegant drawings of the tablets will make obvious to anyone the difficulty of reading the script, and Tomlin has do…
Bald's Leechbook and the Physica Plinii
The study of the sources of the Anglo-Saxon medical texts began more than a hundred years ago with T.O. Cockayne's monumental edition of most of the medical, magical and herbal material extant in Old English. Cockayne demonstrated that the most significant text in this corpus, the late ninth-century compilation known as Bald's Leechbook , drew on an impressive range of Latin source materials. Recent work by C.H. Talbot and M.L. Cameron has furthe…
Notes on the Text, Language and Content of Some New Fragments of Pelagonius
The Ars Veterinaria of the fourth-century writer Pelagonius has hitherto been known only from the MS. Florence, Bibl. Riccardiana 1179 ( R ), a codex copied in 1485 for Politian from an early (lost) manuscript. Apart from this there have only been some palimpsest fragments from Bobbio
Latin and Punic in Contact? The Case of the Bu Njem Ostraca
The ostraca of Bu Njem come from a military outpost on the North African fringes of the Empire. Vernacular languages were spoken in the area. The ostraca record, among other things, contact between soldiers and the local population, and contain various African (Punic or ‘Libyan’) words and names, some of them previously unrecorded. The soldiers themselves have in many cases African names, or names with a special African connection, and it is like…
A Bibliography of Nineteenth-Century Legal Literature
Journal Article A Bibliography of Nineteenth-Century Legal Literature Get access Adams J.N. Davies M.J., eds., A Bibliography of Nineteenth-Century Legal Literature. 3 vols. Cambridge, England: Avero Publications & Chadwyck-Healey Ltd., Vol. 1. xxix, 1046 pp. L400 per volume (L1,200 total). John V. Orth John V. Orth University of North Carolina School of Law Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal…
Wackernagel's Law and the Position of Unstressed Personal Pronouns in Classical Latin
Weak pronouns in Classical Latin are generally believed to have adopted the second position in their clause, in conformity with Wackernagel's law. In this paper it is shown that pronouns are not regularly placed second at all in Classical prose. They have a tendency, shared by other clitic elements such as the copula and auxiliary verb esse , to seek out the focus of an utterance as their host, even when that focus is not at the start of its clau…
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