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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 148
... concerning the race of his Indogermanen , he adduces corroborative evidence from the United States on the survival and expansion of races as a function of climate : " In the United States of North America the Germanic element dominates ...
... concerning the race of his Indogermanen , he adduces corroborative evidence from the United States on the survival and expansion of races as a function of climate : " In the United States of North America the Germanic element dominates ...
Pagina 235
... concerning the Indo - Europeanization of Italy , with which I wholly agree . " The Indo - European expansion is not the result of violent episodes , warring enterprises , or sudden invasions , which would have left a memory in some ...
... concerning the Indo - Europeanization of Italy , with which I wholly agree . " The Indo - European expansion is not the result of violent episodes , warring enterprises , or sudden invasions , which would have left a memory in some ...
Pagina 236
... concerning the linguistic prehistory and protohistory of Italy were in many instances weeds pullulating chiefly upon premises which modern linguistic science vigorously rejects , namely , the arbitrary equation and correlation of race ...
... concerning the linguistic prehistory and protohistory of Italy were in many instances weeds pullulating chiefly upon premises which modern linguistic science vigorously rejects , namely , the arbitrary equation and correlation of race ...
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Adriatic Altheim ancient Apennines Apulia archaeological became Bronze Age called 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 northern origin Oscan Ostrogoths palaeolithic Pallottino Patroni peninsula period political pope population prehistoric Proto-Indo-European provinces race racial Raetic Randall-MacIver records 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 Volsci Vulgar Latin Whatmough 1937 written