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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... whole length of the Italian boot , from the straps to the tip of the toe . Although the whole mass is geologically neither uniform nor of equal age , it presents the appearance of a continuous unit , but without a unique principal ...
... whole length of the Italian boot , from the straps to the tip of the toe . Although the whole mass is geologically neither uniform nor of equal age , it presents the appearance of a continuous unit , but without a unique principal ...
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... whole linear and evolu- tionary , the migrating body of newcomers , if any , is small . In such a case I shall speak of spread by infiltration . But if the cultural conversion is abrupt , rapid , destructive of the old culture , if the ...
... whole linear and evolu- tionary , the migrating body of newcomers , if any , is small . In such a case I shall speak of spread by infiltration . But if the cultural conversion is abrupt , rapid , destructive of the old culture , if the ...
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... whole supposition of terramare ancestry for Rome.31 But there were more damaging arguments forthcoming , enough to annihilate practically all terramare theorizing , save the cultural aspects . As early as 1929 and 1933 Rellini said that ...
... whole supposition of terramare ancestry for Rome.31 But there were more damaging arguments forthcoming , enough to annihilate practically all terramare theorizing , save the cultural aspects . As early as 1929 and 1933 Rellini said that ...
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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