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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 158
... ethnic identification of speakers of Indo - European between the arrival of the dialects and their first appearance in writing calls for most careful review . Such scrutiny is the task of the present chapter . The Italian chronologies ...
... ethnic identification of speakers of Indo - European between the arrival of the dialects and their first appearance in writing calls for most careful review . Such scrutiny is the task of the present chapter . The Italian chronologies ...
Pagina 177
... ethnic classification and prehistory of the persons to whom we owe these records and who are called Siculi there exist a number of violently clashing theories . I shall simply cite a few , retaining the ethnic and linguistic terminology ...
... ethnic classification and prehistory of the persons to whom we owe these records and who are called Siculi there exist a number of violently clashing theories . I shall simply cite a few , retaining the ethnic and linguistic terminology ...
Pagina 180
... ethnic and cultural ref- erends , for historic and prehistoric items , not even in the same geographic area . What ... ethnic names see Bernabò Brea 1953 . 89 Whatmough 1937 , 245 . linguistic and ethnic theories of migration , if ...
... ethnic and cultural ref- erends , for historic and prehistoric items , not even in the same geographic area . What ... ethnic names see Bernabò Brea 1953 . 89 Whatmough 1937 , 245 . linguistic and ethnic theories of migration , if ...
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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