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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 272
... civil rights , Italy would have acquired a ( North ) Oscan dialect , and the ' Romanic ' lan- guages , provided there were to be any , would have been descen- dants of Oscan rather than Latin . The Romans were forced to give in to the ...
... civil rights , Italy would have acquired a ( North ) Oscan dialect , and the ' Romanic ' lan- guages , provided there were to be any , would have been descen- dants of Oscan rather than Latin . The Romans were forced to give in to the ...
Pagina 308
... civil service , and in the army a great number of provincials , especially from Africa and Syria , his and his wife's home , respectively ; he abolishes the privileges Italy enjoys among the provinces ; he bars Italians from the ...
... civil service , and in the army a great number of provincials , especially from Africa and Syria , his and his wife's home , respectively ; he abolishes the privileges Italy enjoys among the provinces ; he bars Italians from the ...
Pagina 415
... civil or foreign , her houses are falling , her walls crumbling , the temples in ruin , the sacred things in contempt , the laws ignored , justice trodden under , and the unhappy people weeps and howls . . . . The Lat- eran is falling ...
... civil or foreign , her houses are falling , her walls crumbling , the temples in ruin , the sacred things in contempt , the laws ignored , justice trodden under , and the unhappy people weeps and howls . . . . The Lat- eran is falling ...
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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