For a "dead" language, Latin has achieved an elevated stature unmatched by few living languages -- its cultural cachet evidenced through countless terms and phrases utilized in Western law, medicine, and science. For a dead language, Latin has achieved an elevated stature unmatched by few living languages -- its cultural cachet evidenced through countless terms and phrases utilized in Western law, medicine, and science. List of Figures.List of Table.Notes on Contributors.Symbols Used.Abbreviations of Ancient Authors and Works.Abbreviations of Modern Sources.Linguistic and Other Abbreviations.Introduction: James Clackson.Part I: Sources:The Latin Alphabet and Orthography (Rex Wallace).Latin Inscriptions and Documents (James Clackson).Latin Manuscripts and Textual Traditions (Bruce Gibson).Romance Languages as a Source for Spoken Latin (Roger Wright).Part II: The Language:The Sounds of Latin: Phonology (Matthew McCullagh).Latin Prosody and Metrics (Benjamin W. Fortson IV).The Forms of Latin: Inflectional Morphology (James Clackson).Latin Syntax (Geoffrey Horrocks).Latin Vocabulary  (Michèle Fruyt).Word-Formation in Classical Latin (Michèle Fruyt).Latin Particles and the Grammar of Discourse (Caroline Kroon).Part III: Latin Through Time:Historical Background to Latin within the Indo-European Language family (Benjamin W. Fortson IV).Archaic and Old Latin (John Penney).Classical Latin (James Clarkson).Late Latin (J.N. Adams).Medieval Latin (Greti Dinkova-Bruun).Neo-Latin (David Butterfield).Part IV: Literary Registers of Latin:The Language of Roman Comedy (Wolfgang de Melo).The Language of Latin Epic and Lyric Poetry (Ronaldo Ferri).The Language of Latin Verse Satire (Anna Chahoud).The Language of Roman Oratory and Rhetoric (J.G.F. Powell).The Language of Latin Historiography (Christina Shuttleworth Kraus).Epistolary Latin: Hilla Halla-aho.Latin as a Technical and Scientific Language (Thorsten Fögen).Legal Latin (J.G.F. Powell).Christian Latin (Philip Burton).Part V: Latin in Social and Political Contexts:The Social Dialects of Latin (James Clackson).Latin and Other languages: Societal and Individual Bilingualism (Alex Mullen).Language Policies in the Roman Republic and Empire (Bruno Rochette).Latin Inside and Outside of Rome (Giovanbattista Galdi).Bibliography.Indexes.