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Interfacing with Linguistic Norms: Prescription and Usage in Greek and Latin

Interfacing with Linguistic Norms: Prescription and Usage in Greek and Latin

Monaco, Chiara
Mondini, Ugo

Hardcover

Series: Trends in Classics - Greek and Latin Linguistics, Book 11

Literary CriticismGeneral World History

PREORDER - Expected ship date December 14, 2026

ISBN10: 311225953X
ISBN13: 9783112259535
Publisher: de Gruyter
Published: Dec 14 2026
Pages: 260
Language: English

How were linguistic norms defined, negotiated, and transformed in Greek and Latin? While grammarians and rhetoricians articulated ideals of correctness, such norms were continually reinterpreted and reshaped in literary production and everyday communicative practice.

This volume investigates the dynamic interplay between prescription and usage in Greek and Latin sources through a series of linguistic, philological, and literary case studies. It examines norms across different historical stages and communicative settings, approaching them not as fixed standards but as historically stratified and socially embedded constructs. This perspective carries important implications for modern scholarship: the apparent homogeneity often attributed to Greek and Latin largely reflects the selective transmission and canonisation of texts rather than the linguistic reality of antiquity, which was far more diverse and less standardised.

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