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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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. |
Dall'interno del libro
Risultati 1-3 di 49
Pagina 95
... result in more varied and intricate , more easily produced and more serv- iceable shapes , and that in a liquid state it can be alloyed with an- other metal , tin , so that the result is a harder and more useful sub- stance . The Bronze ...
... result in more varied and intricate , more easily produced and more serv- iceable shapes , and that in a liquid state it can be alloyed with an- other metal , tin , so that the result is a harder and more useful sub- stance . The Bronze ...
Pagina 117
... results . A number of scholars did in fact reject the whole supposition of terramare ancestry for Rome , 31 32 But ... result , " which is an undeservedly harsh judgment ) ; Barocelli 1942 , 143-144 ; Childe 1947 , 242-244 . But Devoto ...
... results . A number of scholars did in fact reject the whole supposition of terramare ancestry for Rome , 31 32 But ... result , " which is an undeservedly harsh judgment ) ; Barocelli 1942 , 143-144 ; Childe 1947 , 242-244 . But Devoto ...
Pagina 338
... results of the most spontaneous and least inhibited development of Latin- the Romanic , and more narrowly for our ... result that people talk again like some remote ancestors whose speech had not been heard for centuries.17 The reason ...
... results of the most spontaneous and least inhibited development of Latin- the Romanic , and more narrowly for our ... result that people talk again like some remote ancestors whose speech had not been heard for centuries.17 The reason ...
Altre edizioni - Visualizza tutto
Parole e frasi comuni
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