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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 272
... civil rights , Italy would have acquired a ( North ) Oscan dialect , and the ' Romanic ' lan- guages , provided there were to be any , would have been descen- dants of Oscan rather than Latin . The Romans were forced to give in to the ...
... civil rights , Italy would have acquired a ( North ) Oscan dialect , and the ' Romanic ' lan- guages , provided there were to be any , would have been descen- dants of Oscan rather than Latin . The Romans were forced to give in to the ...
Pagina 307
... civil disorders , pestilence , barbarian invasions , all conspire to shake the state to its foundations . The counter- measures are ever greater repression , a wholly inept attempt at price - fixing ( under Diocletian in 301 ) , raising ...
... civil disorders , pestilence , barbarian invasions , all conspire to shake the state to its foundations . The counter- measures are ever greater repression , a wholly inept attempt at price - fixing ( under Diocletian in 301 ) , raising ...
Pagina 415
... civil or foreign , her houses are falling , her walls crumbling , the temples in ruin , the sacred things in contempt , the laws ignored , justice trodden under , and the unhappy people weeps and howls . . The Lat- eran is falling in ...
... civil or foreign , her houses are falling , her walls crumbling , the temples in ruin , the sacred things in contempt , the laws ignored , justice trodden under , and the unhappy people weeps and howls . . The Lat- eran is falling in ...
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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