13. ‘Contrata dicta in lingua latina Scandali, in lingua greca Chandachi, et in lingua saracenica Alcastani’. Playing with Identities in the Multilingual Place–names of Medieval Sicily

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Table of contents vii
4. 1. Linguistic Representations of Identity. Texts, Contexts, and Methods in Diachronic Perspective 1
5. I. Linguistic Representations of Identity at the Micro-level of Linguistic Interaction
6. 2. Identity in Speakers’ Discourse 33
7. 3. Variations of the First Person: Looking at the Greek Private Letters of Ptolemaic Egypt 49
8. 4. Exploring Linguistic Representations of Identity through the DiSCIS Corpus: Evidence from Directive Acts in Plautus and Goldoni 65
9. 5. Greek in Rome around the Year 1000 83
10. 6. Code-switching and Style-shifting in the Anglophone World: Medieval and Contemporary Identity Marking and Interaction Strategies 95
11. II. Linguistic Representations of Identity at the Macro-level of the Linguistic Repertoire
12. 7. Identity in the Repertoire: A Bottom Line 115
13. 8. Between Greek and Romance: Competing Complementation Systems in Southern Italy 135
14. 9. The Syro-Arabic Glosses to Barhebraeus’ Metrical Grammar 157
15. 10. The Lexical Influence of Italian on Turkish 171
16. 11. Political Background, Pragmatics and Word Order in the Text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti 185
17. III. Relations between Sociolinguistic Setting and Linguistic Data
18. 12. Data from Ancient Languages and Sociolinguistic Analysis 201
19. 13. ‘Contrata dicta in lingua latina Scandali, in lingua greca Chandachi, et in lingua saracenica Alcastani’. Playing with Identities in the Multilingual Place–names of Medieval Sicily 223
20. 14 Morphological Productivity in Medieval Sardinian: Sociolinguistic Correlates. Action Nouns and Adverbs of Manner 245
21. 15. Geminated Consonants in the Vindolanda Tablets. Empirical Data and Sociolinguistic Remarks 269
22. IV. Identity through Orality, Identity through Literacy
23. 16. The Writer’s Identity and Identification Markers in Writing Code Mixing and Interference 291
24. 17. The Mediterranean Community of Practices between Speaking and Writing in Early Modern Documents 309
25. 18. Cypriot Arabic between Orality and Literacy in O typos ton Maroniton 325
26. 19. Aspects of Polymorphism in Arborea’s Carta de Logu 341
27. Author index 355
28. Subject index 363