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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 95
... various utensils and containers : the Copper Age has begun . And it is not long before man learns that this very peculiar stone can be smelted and poured into molds to result in more varied and intricate , more easily produced and more ...
... various utensils and containers : the Copper Age has begun . And it is not long before man learns that this very peculiar stone can be smelted and poured into molds to result in more varied and intricate , more easily produced and more ...
Pagina 105
... various sociological and linguistic factors ( relative number of speakers , extinction or perseverance of the palaeolithic substratum , social relationship of natives and invaders , linguistic relationships of various dialects involved ) ...
... various sociological and linguistic factors ( relative number of speakers , extinction or perseverance of the palaeolithic substratum , social relationship of natives and invaders , linguistic relationships of various dialects involved ) ...
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... various Indo - European tongues developed through divergences caused by increasing distance in time and space between the dif- ferent varieties and by superposition upon various linguistic sub- strata.2 Yet no one who believes in the ...
... various Indo - European tongues developed through divergences caused by increasing distance in time and space between the dif- ferent varieties and by superposition upon various linguistic sub- strata.2 Yet no one who believes in the ...
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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