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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... Latin dialects . ) To what extent may our sources claim to represent spoken Latin ? On our conclusions will depend our judgment of the various Vulgar Latin theories . The largest and most varied source com- prises inscriptions of all ...
... Latin dialects . ) To what extent may our sources claim to represent spoken Latin ? On our conclusions will depend our judgment of the various Vulgar Latin theories . The largest and most varied source com- prises inscriptions of all ...
Pagina 319
... Latin ( see Fig . 2 ) , 11 obviously I can show no steps , because we have knowledge of but one classical era of ... Vulgar Latin documents stem . There , and not on the lower line , we must place the writings of the Church Fathers ...
... Latin ( see Fig . 2 ) , 11 obviously I can show no steps , because we have knowledge of but one classical era of ... Vulgar Latin documents stem . There , and not on the lower line , we must place the writings of the Church Fathers ...
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... Vulgar Latin , at no time actually represents speech . 12 There is but one thing such a break could indicate : a step like those in the Egyptian chart , that is , the terminus of a classic era ( classic here in the wider sense , not in ...
... Vulgar Latin , at no time actually represents speech . 12 There is but one thing such a break could indicate : a step like those in the Egyptian chart , that is , the terminus of a classic era ( classic here in the wider sense , not in ...
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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 Normans 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 Volsci Vulgar Latin Whatmough 1937 words