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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 314
... speech in intent or appearance : it is such only by default and only in spots . For even in the lowest form of literary activity , say , in scratchings on the walls of toilet and brothel ( and we do have such so - called graffiti ) ...
... speech in intent or appearance : it is such only by default and only in spots . For even in the lowest form of literary activity , say , in scratchings on the walls of toilet and brothel ( and we do have such so - called graffiti ) ...
Pagina 315
... speech is inevitably inhibited by the use of the verse form . Where an author wishes to render faithfully even the phonology of popular speech , the very requirement of having to write it down will pose difficulties , for , short of ...
... speech is inevitably inhibited by the use of the verse form . Where an author wishes to render faithfully even the phonology of popular speech , the very requirement of having to write it down will pose difficulties , for , short of ...
Pagina 359
... speech with the archaic forms of the religious carmina and the formulae of the law , embellished with native cosmetics , with the lumina of Greek rhetoric , and the flowers of contemporary poetic diction . " 24 What were the visible ...
... speech with the archaic forms of the religious carmina and the formulae of the law , embellished with native cosmetics , with the lumina of Greek rhetoric , and the flowers of contemporary poetic diction . " 24 What were the visible ...
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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