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The emperor Nero is etched into the Western imagination as one of ancient Rome’s most infamous villains, and Tacitus’ Annals have played a central role in shaping the mainstream historiographical understanding of this flamboyant autocrat. This section of the text plunges us straight into the moral cesspool that Rome had apparently become in the later years of Nero’s reign, chronicling the emperor’s fledgling stage career including his plans for a grand tour of Greece; his participation in a city-wide orgy climaxing in his publicly consummated ‘marriage’ to his toy boy Pythagoras; the great fire of AD 64, during which large parts of central Rome went up in flames; and the rising of Nero’s ‘grotesque’ new palace, the so-called ‘Golden House’, from the ashes of the city. This building project stoked the rumours that the emperor himself was behind the conflagration, and Tacitus goes on to present us with Nero’s gruesome efforts to quell these mutterings by scapegoating and executing members of an unpopular new cult then starting to spread through the Roman empire: Christianity. All this contrasts starkly with four chapters focusing on one of Nero’s most principled opponents, the Stoic senator Thrasea Paetus, an audacious figure of moral fibre, who courageously refuses to bend to the forces of imperial corruption and hypocrisy. This course book offers a portion of the original Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and a commentary. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, Owen’s and Gildenhard’s incisive commentary will be of particular interest to students of Latin at both A2 and undergraduate level. It extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis and historical background to encourage critical engagement with Tacitus’ prose and discussion of the most recent scholarly thought.

Ancient Rome --- Latin text

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Because of their brevity and speed, text messages are often considered elliptical. This publication uses a Swiss German corpus of text messages to examine the validity of this assumption. It statistically analyzes pre-field and middle-field omissions as well as ellipsis of articles and prepositions. In addition, the authors examine whether newer technologies - such as the use of emojis in WhatsApp - influence elliptical structures.

Ellipsis --- Text Messages --- WhatsApp --- Communication

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This volume presents a collection of articles centring on the language of the Mishnah and the Talmud – the most important Jewish texts (after the Bible), which were compiled in Palestine and Babylonia in the latter centuries of Late Antiquity. Despite the fact that Rabbinic Hebrew has been the subject of growing academic interest across the past century, very little scholarship has been written on it in English. Studies in Rabbinic Hebrew addresses this lacuna, with eight lucid but technically rigorous articles written in English by a range of experienced scholars, focusing on various aspects of Rabbinic Hebrew: its phonology, morphology, syntax, pragmatics and lexicon. This volume is essential reading for students and scholars of Rabbinic studies alike, and constitutes the second in a new series, Studies in Semitic Languages and Cultures, in collaboration with the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge.

Mishnah --- Talmud --- Jewish text --- Palestine --- Babylonia --- Rabbinic Hebrew

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Die vorliegende Dissertation ist gleichsam eine notwendige "Vorstudie" für die ursprünglich geplante Arbeit "Probleme der Übersetzung von Werken Zoščenkos ins Englische und Deutsche". Analyseobjekt dieser Arbeit sind nun die mehr als 600 Textvarianten, die in den fast 50 betroffenen Ausgaben aufgefunden wurden.Ausgangspunkt der Arbeit ist, daß die Sprache Zoščenkos das Zentrum seiner Kurzgeschichten bildet; sie dient nicht nur der sprachlichen Verpackung der Aussage, sondern ist ein entscheidender Teil von ihr, indem erstens die Sprachverwendung ohne direkte auktoriale Eingriffe die Aussagen des Erzählers in Zweifel zieht und zweitens sie selbst zum Objekt der Kritik wird.

20er --- Dargestellt --- Entwicklung --- Grau --- Jahre --- Kurzgeschichten --- Linguistik --- Russland --- Slavische Sprachwissenschaft --- Sprache --- Sprachverwendung --- Text --- Übersetzung --- Untersuchung --- Zoščenko

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Die folgende sprachliche Analyse der ältesten tschechischen Evangeliare und die daran anschliessende Edition hat es sich zum Hauptziel gesteckt, dem Leser den Text eines der ältesten umfangreicheren Denkmäler der alttschechischen Sprache als Zeugnis der hohen Sprachkultur an der Wende des XIII. und XIV. Jhs. zugänglich zu machen.

ältesten --- Altkirchenslavisch --- Edition --- ersten --- Evangeliare --- Redaktion --- Religion --- Slavische Sprachwissenschaft --- Sprachananlyse --- Text --- Theologie --- Tschechische Republik --- tschechischen --- Vintr