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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... final attainment of Italian national unity in 1861. In the Promessi sposi , the description of Lombardy's plight under Spanish domination in the seventeenth century was but a thinly disguised lament over the province's con- temporary ...
... final attainment of Italian national unity in 1861. In the Promessi sposi , the description of Lombardy's plight under Spanish domination in the seventeenth century was but a thinly disguised lament over the province's con- temporary ...
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... final goal reached by the migration of a closed social unit . The single human particles of a unified cultural and linguistic whole need not , in their own persons or in those of their physical ancestors , have all traversed , together ...
... final goal reached by the migration of a closed social unit . The single human particles of a unified cultural and linguistic whole need not , in their own persons or in those of their physical ancestors , have all traversed , together ...
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... final constitution . Also the peasantry of the surrounding countryside was fully liberated from serfdom or near - servitude , the pertinent law of 1289 speaking of personal liberty as “ a natural and therefore inalienable right , " in ...
... final constitution . Also the peasantry of the surrounding countryside was fully liberated from serfdom or near - servitude , the pertinent law of 1289 speaking of personal liberty as “ a natural and therefore inalienable right , " in ...
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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