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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 97
... Iron Age culture can be found by 900 B.C. , and its spread thence to northern Italy across the manageable passes of the Alps was only a short step . As in the preceding metal ages , the evidence for the expansion of Iron Age cultures ...
... Iron Age culture can be found by 900 B.C. , and its spread thence to northern Italy across the manageable passes of the Alps was only a short step . As in the preceding metal ages , the evidence for the expansion of Iron Age cultures ...
Pagina 122
... Iron Age move- ments in Italy , one from the south , the other from the north , and two corresponding migration ... Age , it appeared that the new cultures reached Italy on two fronts . It seems to me that the pe- culiar testimony ...
... Iron Age move- ments in Italy , one from the south , the other from the north , and two corresponding migration ... Age , it appeared that the new cultures reached Italy on two fronts . It seems to me that the pe- culiar testimony ...
Pagina 124
... Iron Age cultures in Italy , without any ethnic or political connotation.49 The other Iron Age cultures of Italy , not subsumed under the heading Villanovan , that is , all those practicing inhumation burials in the center and south ...
... Iron Age cultures in Italy , without any ethnic or political connotation.49 The other Iron Age cultures of Italy , not subsumed under the heading Villanovan , that is , all those practicing inhumation burials in the center and south ...
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Adriatic Altheim ancient Apennines Apulia archaeological autochthonous Bronze Age burial called Campania century B.C. Chapter civilization Classical Latin colonies course cremation Dante Devoto dialects of Italy east emperor Empire 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 native neolithic northern origin Oscan palaeolithic Pallottino Patroni Pelasgians peninsula period plebeians political population prehistoric Proto-Indo-European Proto-Latins provinces race racial Raetic Randall-MacIver records regions Rome scholars Sicily social southern Italy Southern Villanovan speak speakers of Indo-European speech spoken spread substratum term terramare Terramaricoli theory tion tribes Tuscan Umbrian Venetic Villanovan culture Volsci Vulgar Latin Whatmough 1937 words