Publisher's Synopsis
This volume contains 30 articles covering papyrological topics that provide important contributions to the history of Romance language studies. Among the topics dealt with are the relevance of papyrology for other disciplines (Romance and German studies), the Greek and Latin 'Sprachbund,' the word history of 'papyrus' in ancient and modern European languages, evidence from papyri for the pronunciation of Latin, the history of 20 Greek and Latin words as more precisely revealed in papyri, and the principles of editions in classical philology, papyrology and Romance studies. The contributions represent updated revisions of previous articles; access to the various works is now provided by several indices.
