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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 158
... ethnic identification of speakers of Indo - European between the arrival of the dialects and their first appearance in writing calls for most careful review . Such scrutiny is the task of the present chapter . The Italian chronologies ...
... ethnic identification of speakers of Indo - European between the arrival of the dialects and their first appearance in writing calls for most careful review . Such scrutiny is the task of the present chapter . The Italian chronologies ...
Pagina 159
... ethnic correlation turns to the palaeoethnologists for help , he will find that they are operating with an ethnic group called Proto - Latins , which migrates from the north , about the middle of the second millennium , in a body toward ...
... ethnic correlation turns to the palaeoethnologists for help , he will find that they are operating with an ethnic group called Proto - Latins , which migrates from the north , about the middle of the second millennium , in a body toward ...
Pagina 177
... ethnic classification and prehistory of the persons to whom we owe these records and who are called Siculi there exist a number of violently clashing theories . I shall simply cite a few , retaining the ethnic and linguistic terminology ...
... ethnic classification and prehistory of the persons to whom we owe these records and who are called Siculi there exist a number of violently clashing theories . I shall simply cite a few , retaining the ethnic and linguistic terminology ...
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