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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 28
... Hence to claim ' Roman ' descent for all Italians is biologically and histori- cally ridiculous , and even to claim Roman culture for all of Italy is wrong . For there existed in Italy before Rome , and outside the city of Rome and ...
... Hence to claim ' Roman ' descent for all Italians is biologically and histori- cally ridiculous , and even to claim Roman culture for all of Italy is wrong . For there existed in Italy before Rome , and outside the city of Rome and ...
Pagina 33
... hence the farmers shunned the plains and huddled together on the hilltops in crowded , grey stone villages with narrow , steep streets . Some geographers and ethnologists say that Italians , and Medi- terranean peoples in general , are ...
... hence the farmers shunned the plains and huddled together on the hilltops in crowded , grey stone villages with narrow , steep streets . Some geographers and ethnologists say that Italians , and Medi- terranean peoples in general , are ...
Pagina 150
... Hence the joint appearance in Italy of metallurgy and Indo- European is a locally significant but not necessarily a causally connected togetherness . The coincidence of cultural and linguis- tic traits at a given moment does not allow ...
... Hence the joint appearance in Italy of metallurgy and Indo- European is a locally significant but not necessarily a causally connected togetherness . The coincidence of cultural and linguis- tic traits at a given moment does not allow ...
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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 Normans northern origin Oscan Ostrogoths palaeolithic Pallottino Patroni peninsula period political pope population prehistoric Proto-Indo-European provinces race racial Raetic Randall-MacIver 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