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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 104
... question to answer , again for obvious lack of evidence . Patroni , at least , believes that a Mediterranean race does not arrive from Africa ( or the Near East ) with the physical ap- pearance and cultural equipment of which testimony ...
... question to answer , again for obvious lack of evidence . Patroni , at least , believes that a Mediterranean race does not arrive from Africa ( or the Near East ) with the physical ap- pearance and cultural equipment of which testimony ...
Pagina 176
... question , as the Etruscan arrival in Italy will show.66 Other scholars think that the Elymi are autochthonous Mediterra- neans who differentiated themselves from the Sicani , with whom they had been identical at one time , only under ...
... question , as the Etruscan arrival in Italy will show.66 Other scholars think that the Elymi are autochthonous Mediterra- neans who differentiated themselves from the Sicani , with whom they had been identical at one time , only under ...
Pagina 182
... question of offering in this chapter anything more than a brief discussion in general terms , emphasizing those aspects of the problem which concern the argument of the present book as a whole.1 3 As usually , there are two basic questions ...
... question of offering in this chapter anything more than a brief discussion in general terms , emphasizing those aspects of the problem which concern the argument of the present book as a whole.1 3 As usually , there are two basic questions ...
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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