James Noel Adams

James Noel Adams FBA , FAHA , MAE (born September 24, 1943 in Sydney , New South Wales ) is an Australian classical philologist ( Latinist ).

Life

He attended North Sydney Boys' High School and the University of Sydney , where he graduated with first class honors and was awarded the University Medal in Latin (1964). From 1967 to 1970 he was Commonwealth -Stipendiat at Brasenose College of Oxford University , where in 1970 and his doctorate was ( DPhil ). He later held positions at Christ's College in Cambridge (Rouse Research Fellow in Classics 1970–1972), at the University of Manchester (1972–1995, most recently as Professor of Latin), at St. John's College in Oxford (Visiting Senior Research Fellow 1994– 1995) and the University of Reading (Professor of Latin 1995–1997). From 1998 to 2010 he was a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College , Oxford. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1992 and was awarded the British Academy's Kenyon Medal for Classical Studies in 2009. He is an honorary member of Brasenose College Oxford. In 2007 he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea .

research

Adams' publications are largely devoted to vernacular, non-literary, technical, and regional varieties of the Latin language . His monograph The Latin Sexual Vocabulary (1982) became an indispensable standard work and remained in print for more than 30 years. A trilogy deals with bilingualism and the Latin language (2003), with the regional diversification of Latin (2007) and with the social variation of the Latin language (2013) and thus takes up many aspects of the variation within Latin, as it is developed into the Romance languages . He also covered ancient veterinary medicine and newly discovered non-literary Latin.

Fonts (selection)

• The Text and Language of a Vulgar Chronicle. (Anonymus Valesianus II) (= Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies . Supplement 36). University of London, Institute of Classical Studies, London 1976, ISBN 0-900587-33-4 .
• The Vulgar Latin of the Letters of Claudius Terentianus (P. Mich. VIII. 467-72) (= Publications of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Manchester . Volume 23). Manchester University Press, Manchester 1977, ISBN 0-7190-1289-9 .
• The Latin Sexual Vocabulary . Duckworth, London 1982, ISBN 0-7156-1648-X .
  • Italian translation: Il vocabolario del sesso a Rome. Analisi del linguaggio sessuale nella latinità . Traduzione italiana di Maria Laetitia Riccio Coletti ed Enrico Riccio. Argo, Lecce 1996, ISBN 8886211635 .
• Wackernagel's Law and the Placement of the Copula esse in Classical Latin (= Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society . Supplement 18). Cambridge Philological Society, Cambridge 1994, ISBN 0-906014-17-4 .
• Pelagonius and Latin Veterinary Terminology in the Roman Empire (= Studies in ancient medicine . Volume 11). Brill, Leiden 1995, ISBN 90-04-10281-7 .
• Bilingualism and the Latin Language . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2003, ISBN 0-521-81771-4 .
• The Regional Diversification of Latin 200 BC - AD 600 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2003, ISBN 0-521-88149-8 .
• Social Variation and the Latin Language . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2003, ISBN 978-0-521-88614-7 .

Web links

• CV and list of publications