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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... become Romanized under the compulsion of the Roman Empire , not even in language , as thoroughly as one might think , it could hardly thereafter become culturally unified in the course of its checkered and largely unhappy history . Yet ...
... become Romanized under the compulsion of the Roman Empire , not even in language , as thoroughly as one might think , it could hardly thereafter become culturally unified in the course of its checkered and largely unhappy history . Yet ...
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... become Italy's national language . Although Tuscan most likely occupied a favored position because of certain intrinsic qualities , and though perhaps the constellation of Dante , Boccaccio , and Petrarch was a singularly brilliant and ...
... become Italy's national language . Although Tuscan most likely occupied a favored position because of certain intrinsic qualities , and though perhaps the constellation of Dante , Boccaccio , and Petrarch was a singularly brilliant and ...
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... become the model for dictionaries of the French ( 1694 ) and Spanish ( 1726– 39 ) Academies , as well as for Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English language ( 1747-1755 ) . But owing to the quarrels over the Questione della lingua ...
... become the model for dictionaries of the French ( 1694 ) and Spanish ( 1726– 39 ) Academies , as well as for Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English language ( 1747-1755 ) . But owing to the quarrels over the Questione della lingua ...
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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