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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... Latin texts from Italy and the Romania is but an administrative , learned , written language , propagated in Italy ... Vulgar Latin is applied to the documents available from the post - classical period of Latin down to the ninth ...
... Latin texts from Italy and the Romania is but an administrative , learned , written language , propagated in Italy ... Vulgar Latin is applied to the documents available from the post - classical period of Latin down to the ninth ...
Pagina 405
... vulgar type of language , a resigned recognition that one cannot talk to people either about politics or about religion in a language they have long ceased to understand , that Latin was no longer an apt instrument to teach and guide ...
... vulgar type of language , a resigned recognition that one cannot talk to people either about politics or about religion in a language they have long ceased to understand , that Latin was no longer an apt instrument to teach and guide ...
Pagina 406
... Vulgar Latin , at no time actually represents speech.12 There is but one thing such a break could indicate : a step like those in the Egyptian chart , that is , the terminus of a classic era ( classic here in the wider sense , not in ...
... Vulgar Latin , at no time actually represents speech.12 There is but one thing such a break could indicate : a step like those in the Egyptian chart , that is , the terminus of a classic era ( classic here in the wider sense , not in ...
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The climate | 21 |
The Italian standard language | 54 |
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Adriatic Altheim ancient Apennines Apulia archaeological autochthonous Bronze Age burial called Campania century B.C. Chapter civilization Classical Latin colonies course cremation Dante Devoto dialects of Italy east emperor Empire 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 literary language Mediterranean Messapic migration modern native neolithic northern origin Oscan palaeolithic Pallottino Patroni Pelasgians peninsula period plebeians political population prehistoric Proto-Indo-European Proto-Latins provinces race racial Raetic Randall-MacIver records regions Rome scholars Sicily social southern Italy Southern Villanovan speak speakers of Indo-European speech spoken spread substratum term terramare Terramaricoli theory tion tribes Tuscan Umbrian Venetic Villanovan culture Vulgar Latin Whatmough 1937