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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 382
... Germanic cultural failure in Italy was that the Germans were mainly rural settlers and feudal lords who underrated ... Germanic name anywhere in Italy is no clue whatever as to the size and impact of the Germanic occupation . It merely ...
... Germanic cultural failure in Italy was that the Germans were mainly rural settlers and feudal lords who underrated ... Germanic name anywhere in Italy is no clue whatever as to the size and impact of the Germanic occupation . It merely ...
Pagina 383
... Germanic , without further specification as to tribe and date . This means that for our purposes of linguistic history the evidence is insufficient . What about the influence , if any , of Germanic on Latin in sounds , forms , and ...
... Germanic , without further specification as to tribe and date . This means that for our purposes of linguistic history the evidence is insufficient . What about the influence , if any , of Germanic on Latin in sounds , forms , and ...
Pagina 388
... Germanic rivulets and torrents which at various times rippled or roared through Italy . We have followed the history of the Western Empire over five centuries from the first ephemeral intrusions of Germanic bands , as allies or foes ...
... Germanic rivulets and torrents which at various times rippled or roared through Italy . We have followed the history of the Western Empire over five centuries from the first ephemeral intrusions of Germanic bands , as allies or foes ...
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Adriatic Altheim ancient Apennines Apulia archaeological became Bronze Age called Campania 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 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 Vulgar Latin Whatmough 1937 words written