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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 155
... attack and dislodge them . And since we find ourselves on or not far from the steppe regions of eastern Europe and western Asia , what comes to mind are the recurrent periods of desiccation of the steppe , as conjectured , with good ...
... attack and dislodge them . And since we find ourselves on or not far from the steppe regions of eastern Europe and western Asia , what comes to mind are the recurrent periods of desiccation of the steppe , as conjectured , with good ...
Pagina 309
... attack by foreign troops since the cry " Hannibal ante portas " arose . But under Aurelianus ( 270-275 ) it became necessary for the first time since those perilous days to fortify Rome with a wall of brick twenty feet high , twelve ...
... attack by foreign troops since the cry " Hannibal ante portas " arose . But under Aurelianus ( 270-275 ) it became necessary for the first time since those perilous days to fortify Rome with a wall of brick twenty feet high , twelve ...
Pagina 369
... attack the Empire as organized tribes rather than as desultory hordes , it seems that their actual fighting strength was surprisingly small -luckily for the Romans who had no great numbers of soldiers to put in the field against them ...
... attack the Empire as organized tribes rather than as desultory hordes , it seems that their actual fighting strength was surprisingly small -luckily for the Romans who had no great numbers of soldiers to put in the field against them ...
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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