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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 126
... advance , together with a new type of burial rite and a new kind of dialects , leads to the assumption of immigrations which , though not strong numerically , prompted these changes . The most studied , though by no means unique cul ...
... advance , together with a new type of burial rite and a new kind of dialects , leads to the assumption of immigrations which , though not strong numerically , prompted these changes . The most studied , though by no means unique cul ...
Pagina 156
... advance toward Europe ( at least of its northern , not the Aegean , branch ) speakers of Indo - European lay in its path , that is , somewhere along the route from the Middle or Near East to Europe . But this , too , I am not proposing ...
... advance toward Europe ( at least of its northern , not the Aegean , branch ) speakers of Indo - European lay in its path , that is , somewhere along the route from the Middle or Near East to Europe . But this , too , I am not proposing ...
Pagina 393
... advance was halted at the church of St. Peter and St. Paul , not far from the walls of the city . Yet the continued discords between the emperor and the pope , and the Italian princes among them- selves , permitted the Moslems to pursue ...
... advance was halted at the church of St. Peter and St. Paul , not far from the walls of the city . Yet the continued discords between the emperor and the pope , and the Italian princes among them- selves , permitted the Moslems to pursue ...
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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