The Tongues of Italy: Prehistory and HistoryHarvard University Press, 1958 - 465 pagine Through the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them. But the result is always a mixture. The linguistic evolution of Italy parallels this development, and presented as part of the cultural history it beomes a colorful and exciting tale.--dust jacket. |
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Pagina 312
... Classical Latin but from Vulgar Latin . Quite apart from the questionable term ' descent , ' which is at best metaphorical ( I should rather say that the Romanic languages are modern Latin of one kind or another ) , the term Vulgar Latin ...
... Classical Latin but from Vulgar Latin . Quite apart from the questionable term ' descent , ' which is at best metaphorical ( I should rather say that the Romanic languages are modern Latin of one kind or another ) , the term Vulgar Latin ...
Pagina 320
... classical or at least acceptably correct Latin in writing , may well have handled the language less properly , phonemically and grammatically , in speaking . A written text can be revised and corrected , the flow of speech cannot ...
... classical or at least acceptably correct Latin in writing , may well have handled the language less properly , phonemically and grammatically , in speaking . A written text can be revised and corrected , the flow of speech cannot ...
Pagina 406
... Classical Latin from the popular language " ( 130 ) , and wishes to find out , from the written testimony , exactly when " the cleavage of Latin and Romance was accomplished " ( 130 ) . What cleavage ? See also the review of Muller 1929 ...
... Classical Latin from the popular language " ( 130 ) , and wishes to find out , from the written testimony , exactly when " the cleavage of Latin and Romance was accomplished " ( 130 ) . What cleavage ? See also the review of Muller 1929 ...
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Adriatic Altheim ancient Apennines Apulia archaeological became Bronze Age called Campania century B.C. CHAPTER Charlemagne civilization Classical Latin colonies course cremation Dante Devoto dialects of Italy east emperor especially ethnic Etruria Etruscan Europe European evidence fact foreign Gaul Germanic Greek guage Hence idioms Illyrian important Indo Indo-European dialects Indo-European languages inhabitants inhumation inscriptions invaders invasion Iron Age Iron Age cultures Italian Italic Italici Keltic Krahe Kretschmer land Langobards later Latinian Latium least Ligurian linguistic linguistic history Mediterranean Messapic migration modern Moslems native neolithic northern origin Oscan Ostrogoths palaeolithic Pallottino Patroni peninsula period political pope population prehistoric Proto-Indo-European provinces race racial Raetic Randall-MacIver records region Roman Empire Romanic languages Rome scholars Sicily social southern Italy speak speakers of Indo-European speech spoken substratum term terramare Terramaricoli theory tion tribes Tuscan Umbrian Venetic Villanovan culture Visigoths Vulgar Latin Whatmough 1937 written