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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... literary standard was to emerge , the process never occurred as Dante envisioned it . Rather , it came about in such a way that one of the existing dialects , for cultural , geographic , political , or intellectual reasons attained ...
... literary standard was to emerge , the process never occurred as Dante envisioned it . Rather , it came about in such a way that one of the existing dialects , for cultural , geographic , political , or intellectual reasons attained ...
Pagina 344
... literary language , modern Standard Italian , which is largely the Tuscan of Dante , augmented and changed by subsequent historic and linguistic developments . I said that a literary language is the elevation of a dialect at a given ...
... literary language , modern Standard Italian , which is largely the Tuscan of Dante , augmented and changed by subsequent historic and linguistic developments . I said that a literary language is the elevation of a dialect at a given ...
Pagina 349
... literary and political evolution Rome differed fundamentally from Greece . While the Greeks produced a Homer and a number of great poets and writers , and enjoyed a literary education , long before the political flourishing of their ...
... literary and political evolution Rome differed fundamentally from Greece . While the Greeks produced a Homer and a number of great poets and writers , and enjoyed a literary education , long before the political flourishing of their ...
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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