Lecture: Synchrony and diachrony. Historical context: orality, culture and writing. The concept of "vulgar Latin" - in antiquity

Dr. Caterina Isabela Sousa Gaspar

(University of Lisabon, Department of classical studies)

is dealing with the Latin historical linguistics, late Latin, the epigraphy of Lusitania and questions related to the multilingvism in the area of Iberian Peninsula.

She is going to have two lectures:

TUESDAY 12 March 12,00 A21

The Muslim invasions in the Iberian Peninsula
- historical and cultural context of the 8^th century until the Reconquest. The impact of the presence of Arabic language and culture: the Mozarabic. Analysis and commentary of some khardjas and other cultural testimonies.

TUESDAY 12 March 16,00 A21

Synchrony and diachrony. Historical context: orality, culture and writing. The concept of "vulgar Latin" - in antiquity.
Language substrata, and adstrata and superstrata. Bilingualism and linguistic contact in antiquity. The paleohispanic languages of the Iberian Peninsula. The Romanization of Hispania.