[...]... fascicules of the British Academys Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, and is preparing a study of the Greek of the Zenon Archive Panagiotis Filos has recently completed a University of Oxford doctoral dissertation on the morphology of Latin loanwords in the language of the Greek papyri His research interests focus on the history of the Greek language, with particular emphasis on the classical... imaging of carbonized papyri or digital scanning of the ink texts from Vindolanda.11 Linguistic research is particularly well placed to beneWt from these breakthroughs The time is at last ripe for newly comprehensive research into the language of the papyri, which will demonstrate the full signiWcance of the material The purpose of this book is to show the potential of that material It gathers together... studies of E Mayser, L R Palmer, B G Mandilaras, and F T Gignac.2 While the Greek and Latin papyri can fairly be said to have transformed our knowledge of the ancient world over the past century, one cannot make the same claim convincingly in the speciWc area of language study In 1973 Mandilaras wrote of the diYculties and problems arising from the inadequate knowledge we have of the language of the papyri. 3... writing, but the linguistic types preserved by these texts The signiWcance of the language of the papyri resides especially in the way its evidence relates to that from other sources, including classical literature Nevertheless, the focus of the chapters included in the volume is essentially Greek and Latin documents under the aspects described above The core evidence addressed is that supplied by the Greek... and A History of New Testament Lexicography (2003) He is now preparing an edition and study of the Complutensian Lexicon of the New Testament (the Wrst modern lexicon of the corpus, published in 1514) Martti Leiwo is the Director of the Finnish Institute at Athens, Docent and Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Helsinki, and Docent of Ancient Languages at the University of Turku His publications... frequently linked to issues of language contact and bilingualism (as here in Leiwos discussion of the usage of Petenephotes the kibariates), and these topics form the theme of Part II By contrast with questions of diversity, language contact in the ancient world has attracted intense interest in recent times The language of documentary papyri has provided valuable fuel for the discussion, as seen, for... began to exploit the new material Yet analysis of the language of the 1 On the process of chance rediscovery and the early phases of organized excavation see E G Turner, Greek Papyri: An Introduction, 2nd edn (Oxford, 1980), 17 41 2 T V Evans and D Obbink papyri has since lagged behind other spheres of investigation, despite the sporadic appearance of important articles and monographs and the major grammatical... is a Full Professor in the Department of History at the Catholic University of Leuven, and a Fellow of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium His extensive publications cover a wide range of papyrological and related topics, with a special focus on Ptolemaic Egypt He is the author of Prosopographia Ptolemaica, ix (1981), The Petrie Papyri (2nd edn.), i: The Wills (1991), The Leuven Database of Ancient... Hilla Halla aho is a specialist in the language of non literary Latin texts, based at the University of Helsinki She has just completed her doctoral dissertation on the syntax and pragmatics of the Latin non literary letters (University of Helsinki, 2008) and is the co editor of Latin vulgaire latin tardif VI (2003) Future projects include a study of the language of the Pompeian wall inscriptions in... book range from the third century bc to the seventh century ad, the Latin documents from the Wrst century bc to the second century ad 12 Cf T Reinhardt, M Lapidge, and J N Adams (eds.), Aspects of the Language of Latin Prose (Oxford, 2005), 2 13 Turner, Greek Papyri, p vi 14 For a demonstration of the linguistic potential of the Arabic papyri see e.g E Grob, Arabic Epistolography over the Centuries (forthcoming . doctoral dissertation on the morphology of Latin loanwords in the language of the Greek papyri. His research interests focus on the history of the Greek language, with particular emphasis on the classical. sup- ported by the British Academy, the Egypt Exploration Society, and three funding bodies associated with the University of Oxford: the Craven Committee, the Board of the Faculty of Classics, and the Jowett. thanks to these organizations, to Christ Church, to Brasenose College, and to the many individuals who oVered advice and assistance of various kinds. In the preparation of The Language of the Papyri