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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... means . Anthropologists know that nonlinguis- tic cultural traits are more easily borrowed and transferred than linguistic ones.31 " More easily " means that the sum total of energy spent in the process needs to be greater for the ...
... means . Anthropologists know that nonlinguis- tic cultural traits are more easily borrowed and transferred than linguistic ones.31 " More easily " means that the sum total of energy spent in the process needs to be greater for the ...
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... means excluded ; quite the contrary . But any question concerning the race of the propagators of metal in Europe is senseless since the indi- viduals involved , not numerous in any event , came from different areas at different periods ...
... means excluded ; quite the contrary . But any question concerning the race of the propagators of metal in Europe is senseless since the indi- viduals involved , not numerous in any event , came from different areas at different periods ...
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... means of a vast canal , the cloaca maxima , tracts of which are still visible and in use , and which is obviously of Etruscan workmanship . A temple is built on the Capitoline hill to luppiter Optimus Maximus , in which the divine triad ...
... means of a vast canal , the cloaca maxima , tracts of which are still visible and in use , and which is obviously of Etruscan workmanship . A temple is built on the Capitoline hill to luppiter Optimus Maximus , in which the divine triad ...
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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