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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 165
... Plautus Trin . 851-852 plays a major role , where a big mushroom - shaped hat is associated typically with the Illyrians . No one seems to worry , if about nothing else in this tale , then at least about the matter of four hundred years ...
... Plautus Trin . 851-852 plays a major role , where a big mushroom - shaped hat is associated typically with the Illyrians . No one seems to worry , if about nothing else in this tale , then at least about the matter of four hundred years ...
Pagina 314
... Plautus ( about 254-184 B.C. ) , Petronius ( died A.D. 66 ) , and Apuleius ( of the 2nd century B.C. , a native of Africa ) give us honest spoken Latin . These three names practically exhaust the list , except for 8 Palmer 1954 , 149 ...
... Plautus ( about 254-184 B.C. ) , Petronius ( died A.D. 66 ) , and Apuleius ( of the 2nd century B.C. , a native of Africa ) give us honest spoken Latin . These three names practically exhaust the list , except for 8 Palmer 1954 , 149 ...
Pagina 351
... Plautus ( about 254- 184 B.C. ) , an Umbrian , of whose numerous comedies only nine- teen have come down to us . Although he derived his subjects from Hellenic mythology and Greek dramatic literature , his plays are in spirit , tone ...
... Plautus ( about 254- 184 B.C. ) , an Umbrian , of whose numerous comedies only nine- teen have come down to us . Although he derived his subjects from Hellenic mythology and Greek dramatic literature , his plays are in spirit , tone ...
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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