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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 111
... invaders were of the Mediterranean race ( even in the widest sense of the term ) is more than doubtful : all criteria we possess , culture , burials , and a reasonable linguistic hypothesis , contradict the assumption in all important ...
... invaders were of the Mediterranean race ( even in the widest sense of the term ) is more than doubtful : all criteria we possess , culture , burials , and a reasonable linguistic hypothesis , contradict the assumption in all important ...
Pagina 191
... invaders in the same sense in which I see ' Etruscan ' soldiers fighting the Romans at Veii , but I see some invaders from the east whom I cannot provide , prior to their arrival in Italy , with an ethnic or national label because I do ...
... invaders in the same sense in which I see ' Etruscan ' soldiers fighting the Romans at Veii , but I see some invaders from the east whom I cannot provide , prior to their arrival in Italy , with an ethnic or national label because I do ...
Pagina 375
... invaders , the disunity of purpose among the Germans themselves , the reluc- tance of the Germans , up to the time of the Langobards , to destroy the old culture , and the religious and cultural incompatibility of Germans and Italians ...
... invaders , the disunity of purpose among the Germans themselves , the reluc- tance of the Germans , up to the time of the Langobards , to destroy the old culture , and the religious and cultural incompatibility of Germans and Italians ...
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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