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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 143
... original Indo - Europeans ' and the extent and location of their ' original homeland ' seems to have taken its er- ratic course largely in a vacuum . Accordingly , the solutions were conjectural at best , but more likely meaningless ...
... original Indo - Europeans ' and the extent and location of their ' original homeland ' seems to have taken its er- ratic course largely in a vacuum . Accordingly , the solutions were conjectural at best , but more likely meaningless ...
Pagina 144
... original ( that is , we now know , relatively original ) Proto - Indo - European form . The fact that this Proto - Indo - European item is not recorded is customarily indicated in print by means of the asterisk in front of it . No claim ...
... original ( that is , we now know , relatively original ) Proto - Indo - European form . The fact that this Proto - Indo - European item is not recorded is customarily indicated in print by means of the asterisk in front of it . No claim ...
Pagina 153
... original dialect boundaries , that for some good socio - cultural reasons the natives of the receiving areas adopt the language of the newcomers , and that this process repeats itself on and on , with varying intensity and speed and ...
... original dialect boundaries , that for some good socio - cultural reasons the natives of the receiving areas adopt the language of the newcomers , and that this process repeats itself on and on , with varying intensity and speed and ...
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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