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rug.ac.be>ASPECTS OF BILINGUALISM IN THE ANCIENT WORLD THE UNIVERSITY OF READING, 2-4 April 1998 An International conference on bilingualism organised by Prof. J.N. Adams (Reading), Prof. M.E.P. Janse (Gent) and Dr S.C.R. Swain (Warwick) will be held at the University of Reading from 2-4 April 1998. Sixteen invited speakers from Britain and abroad will give papers. No attempt will be made to achieve a comprehensive coverage of language contact in the ancient Mediterranean world, but the focus will instead be on Greek and Latin in contact both with each other and with other languages. It is intended that some papers should be linguistic in orientation (i.e. that they should take account of recent research by linguists on bilingualism in modern societies, relating the findings if possible to issues of ancient bilingualism), but it is also obvious that historians and literary scholars commonly address problems related to language contact. We hope that the programme of papers will offer a combination of sociolinguistic, literary, cultural and historical approaches to the subject. Conference program THURSDAY, APRIL 2 12.00-2.00 Registration 2.00-2.05 Welcome 2.05-2.50 D.R. Langslow Approaching Bilingualism in Corpus Languages 2.50-3.35 S.C.R. Swain Bilingualism and Biculturalism in Cicero 3.35-3.50 Discussion 3.50-4.15 Tea 4.15-5.00 Cl. Brixhe Echanges greco-phrygiens 5.00-5.45 I. Rutherford Patterns of Interference in Lycian-Greek Texts: Word Order, Filiation, Formulas and Other Stuctures 5.45-6.00 Discussion 6.15-7.00 Z. Rubin Res Gestae Divi Saporis: Greek and Middle Iranian in a Document of Sassanian, anti-Roman Propaganga 7.30 Reception (Ure Museum of Archaeology) ************ FRIDAY, APRIL 3 9.00-9.45 J.N. Adams Bilingualism at Delos 9.45-10.30 K. Versteegh Dead or Alive : the Status of the Standard Language 10.30-10.45 Discussion 10.45-11.10 Coffee 11.10-11.55 H. Cotton Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek in the Documents from the Judean Desert : Languages, Law and Society 11.55-12.40 M. Janse Contact-Induced Change: Two Case Studies from the History of Greek 12.40-12.55 Discussion 1.00-2.15 Lunch 2.15-3.00 F. Biville Greco-Romains et greco-latin 3.00-3.45 M. Leiwo From Contact to Mixture: Bilingual Inscriptions from Italy 3.45-4.00 Discussion 4.00-4.25 Tea 4.25-5.10 D.G.K. Taylor Bilingualism and Diglossia in Late Antique Syria and Mesopotamia 5.10-5.55 P. Flobert A Case of Bilingualism in Gaul: Romani and Franci in the VIth Century 5.55-6.30 Discussion 7.30-9.30 Conference Dinner ************ SATURDAY, APRIL 4 9.00-9.45 J. Kramer Greek Papyri from Egypt and the History of the Latin Language 9.45-10.30 P. Glare From Text to Speech: Arguing the Case for Bilingualism in Roman Egypt 10.30-10.45 Discussion 10.45-11.10 Coffee 11.10-11.55 H. von Staden (title awaited) 11.55-12.40 B. Frischer Word-order Transference between Latin and Greek: The Relative Position of the Accusative Direct Object and the Governing Verb in Cassius Dio and Other Greek and Roman Prose Authors 12.40-1.00 Discussion Location: The conference will be held in the Faculty of Letters and Social Sciences at the University of Reading. Accommodation: Delegates will be put up in a modern University Hall of Residence. All rooms have handbasins, and there are some rooms with en-suite facilities. Please let us know if you require a room on the ground floor. It is not possible to provide double rooms. Meals: Breakfast is included in the price of accommodation and coffee, lunch and tea are included in the conference fee. On the first night there will a reception in the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology hosted by the Department of Classics. On the second night a conference dinner will be held in the Orange Room, University of Reading. The price of this will be GBP 325 to include wine. Travel: Reading is easily reached by road and train. Train: Reading is on the London to Bristol line and there are frequent trains from Paddington. Reading is also easily accessible by train from Oxford and the North. For those travelling by Eurostar, there is a direct train service from Waterloo to Reading. Road: Reading is some forty miles from London and can be reached via the M4 motorway, junction 11. Air: There is a direct bus link between Heathrow and Reading. A regular train service runs between Gatwick and Reading. General: Throughout the conference a conference office will be manned and delegates can be contacted by the following means: Telephone: 0118 9 31820 Fax: 0118 9 316661 e-mail: s.r.d.wallisMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue