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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 7
... land of Italy is , or need be , uninhabitable . And one may well say that much of the country that lies barren , fallow , eroded , and sterile , has become so through human use and abuse . Ruthless deforestation , overgrazing of ...
... land of Italy is , or need be , uninhabitable . And one may well say that much of the country that lies barren , fallow , eroded , and sterile , has become so through human use and abuse . Ruthless deforestation , overgrazing of ...
Pagina 35
... land is efficiently utilized pro bono publico . Of course , owners who thus lose their land receive indemnities in cash or in securities from the government , the expense to be charged to the public debt . Conversely , the new owners ...
... land is efficiently utilized pro bono publico . Of course , owners who thus lose their land receive indemnities in cash or in securities from the government , the expense to be charged to the public debt . Conversely , the new owners ...
Pagina 299
... land habitually but illegally held by private owners . Some of these corrections were reluctantly instituted , but ... land , but also their practice of driving small holders into forced sales . Between 118 and 112 the Gracchan land ...
... land habitually but illegally held by private owners . Some of these corrections were reluctantly instituted , but ... land , but also their practice of driving small holders into forced sales . Between 118 and 112 the Gracchan land ...
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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