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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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Prehistory and History Ernst Pulgram. CHAPTER XI Southern Italy in the Metal Ages A considerable body of evidence has been accumulating which points to two principal routes of importation of metal to Italy . One , a northern , comes from ...
Prehistory and History Ernst Pulgram. CHAPTER XI Southern Italy in the Metal Ages A considerable body of evidence has been accumulating which points to two principal routes of importation of metal to Italy . One , a northern , comes from ...
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... southern Italy improved considerably owing to the general cultural progress and greater density of population . Indeed we have noticed that the evidence demonstrates an overlapping of Northern and Southern Villanovan cultures in the ...
... southern Italy improved considerably owing to the general cultural progress and greater density of population . Indeed we have noticed that the evidence demonstrates an overlapping of Northern and Southern Villanovan cultures in the ...
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... southern armies which the Normans fused into an admirable and efficient fighting force . This new ethnic and political element in Italy , the Normans , made its first impressive appearance in Italy , it is said , when some forty ...
... southern armies which the Normans fused into an admirable and efficient fighting force . This new ethnic and political element in Italy , the Normans , made its first impressive appearance in Italy , it is said , when some forty ...
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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