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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 52
... showed the way to the estab- lishment of a Schriftsprache . In Italy , during the same period , communications were poor for geographical , political , but also intellectual reasons . The read- ing public remained small , and literary ...
... showed the way to the estab- lishment of a Schriftsprache . In Italy , during the same period , communications were poor for geographical , political , but also intellectual reasons . The read- ing public remained small , and literary ...
Pagina 134
... showed nowhere , at any time , a severely abrupt change . The inevitable conclusion was therefore that during the metal ages no ethnic mass migrations took place . We are still far from the threshold of history in Italy . But eventually ...
... showed nowhere , at any time , a severely abrupt change . The inevitable conclusion was therefore that during the metal ages no ethnic mass migrations took place . We are still far from the threshold of history in Italy . But eventually ...
Pagina 296
... showed themselves eager for military service , and neglected the bringing up of children , so that soon all Italy was conscious of a dearth of freemen , and was filled with gangs of foreign slaves , by whose aid the rich cultivated ...
... showed themselves eager for military service , and neglected the bringing up of children , so that soon all Italy was conscious of a dearth of freemen , and was filled with gangs of foreign slaves , by whose aid the rich cultivated ...
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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