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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 55
... social prestige to the latter . Hence it is generally taught and used in the schools ( ex- cept in German Switzerland where the use of Swiss German , unin- telligible to users of other kinds of German dialects , bears no social stigma ...
... social prestige to the latter . Hence it is generally taught and used in the schools ( ex- cept in German Switzerland where the use of Swiss German , unin- telligible to users of other kinds of German dialects , bears no social stigma ...
Pagina 259
... social equals of , the patricians rather than the plebeians , despite their essential foreignness , just as , for example , the British administrators and civilian residents of India enjoyed a high rather than a low social status within ...
... social equals of , the patricians rather than the plebeians , despite their essential foreignness , just as , for example , the British administrators and civilian residents of India enjoyed a high rather than a low social status within ...
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... social élite of birth and wealth of Rome coincided with the élite of education which knew and used Classical Latin . It may be idle to speculate on what would have been the future of Classical Latin if it had rested on a broader social ...
... social élite of birth and wealth of Rome coincided with the élite of education which knew and used Classical Latin . It may be idle to speculate on what would have been the future of Classical Latin if it had rested on a broader social ...
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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