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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 403
... Classical Latin was urged upon Christians " so that those who strive to please God by a decorous life , would not neglect to please Him also by decorous speech . . . . We exhort you to study letters . . . precisely with the aim that you ...
... Classical Latin was urged upon Christians " so that those who strive to please God by a decorous life , would not neglect to please Him also by decorous speech . . . . We exhort you to study letters . . . precisely with the aim that you ...
Pagina 404
... Classical Latin did not enter the heads of even the most optimistic and de- voted revivalists . Nor was it possible to eradicate the vernacular by monarchic fiat . But what and how exactly this popular language was , we still do not ...
... Classical Latin did not enter the heads of even the most optimistic and de- voted revivalists . Nor was it possible to eradicate the vernacular by monarchic fiat . But what and how exactly this popular language was , we still do not ...
Pagina 411
... classical tradition never actually came to an end : throughout the Middle Ages , and also in modern times , Latin remained a used , albeit not a living language which , though for some time it deteriorated , even- tually experienced a ...
... classical tradition never actually came to an end : throughout the Middle Ages , and also in modern times , Latin remained a used , albeit not a living language which , though for some time it deteriorated , even- tually experienced a ...
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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