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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... became more and more unsuited for the military adventures of empire . The place of the citizen in the army was taken over by mercenaries . As early as the Second Punic War , after the disastrous blood bath of Cannae ( 216 ) when a Roman ...
... became more and more unsuited for the military adventures of empire . The place of the citizen in the army was taken over by mercenaries . As early as the Second Punic War , after the disastrous blood bath of Cannae ( 216 ) when a Roman ...
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... became standard for all social and literate intercourse upon a higher level , responding not only to the mere exigencies of communication but also to the ideals of its users ' aesthetic con- sciousness . That this second step was ...
... became standard for all social and literate intercourse upon a higher level , responding not only to the mere exigencies of communication but also to the ideals of its users ' aesthetic con- sciousness . That this second step was ...
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... became better known as the Kingdom of Arles . In the fifteenth century the dukes of Burgundy , thanks to their conquests which reached as far north as the Netherlands and Belgium , became powerful figures in French politics , and in the ...
... became better known as the Kingdom of Arles . In the fifteenth century the dukes of Burgundy , thanks to their conquests which reached as far north as the Netherlands and Belgium , became powerful figures in French politics , and in the ...
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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