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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 21
... true , but it is not true that all of Italy enjoys always a balmy air . In the hills and mountains it can get very cold indeed ; even Naples may have , though rarely , freezing tempera- tures ; and the dark , foggy cold of the Po plain ...
... true , but it is not true that all of Italy enjoys always a balmy air . In the hills and mountains it can get very cold indeed ; even Naples may have , though rarely , freezing tempera- tures ; and the dark , foggy cold of the Po plain ...
Pagina 167
... true , but not both need be true , and neither is proved to be true : for the equation Camuni Euganei Terramaricoli equates only onomastically but without the slightest factual justi- fication , over the treacherous , merely onomastic ...
... true , but not both need be true , and neither is proved to be true : for the equation Camuni Euganei Terramaricoli equates only onomastically but without the slightest factual justi- fication , over the treacherous , merely onomastic ...
Pagina 331
... true that a Greek accent on Rome's Palatine Hill was socially acceptable as is a French accent on Boston's Beacon Hill - provided they are the property of ambassadors or nobles or successful artists , that is , persons otherwise ...
... true that a Greek accent on Rome's Palatine Hill was socially acceptable as is a French accent on Boston's Beacon Hill - provided they are the property of ambassadors or nobles or successful artists , that is , persons otherwise ...
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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