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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 36
... century B.C. by those Roman legions which had to cross it on their way north . * In the middle of the second century B.C. extensive oak forests were still standing in the Po country , where acorn - fed hogs constituted a rich source ...
... century B.C. by those Roman legions which had to cross it on their way north . * In the middle of the second century B.C. extensive oak forests were still standing in the Po country , where acorn - fed hogs constituted a rich source ...
Pagina 141
... century speaker of Latin would not understand , or be understood by , a twentieth- century Frenchman , and since a speaker of Proto - Indo - European of the thirtieth century B.C. could not communicate with a Roman of the fourth century ...
... century speaker of Latin would not understand , or be understood by , a twentieth- century Frenchman , and since a speaker of Proto - Indo - European of the thirtieth century B.C. could not communicate with a Roman of the fourth century ...
Pagina 232
... B.C. for the Osco - Umbrians , and as high as the end of the second millennium for the first , and the tenth century B.C. for the second . Because of my own opinion I find least disagreeable the single invasion theory , which has ...
... B.C. for the Osco - Umbrians , and as high as the end of the second millennium for the first , and the tenth century B.C. for the second . Because of my own opinion I find least disagreeable the single invasion theory , which has ...
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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