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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 88
... ment belongs . . . . The pattern here [ in the chronological charts on pp . 331-333 ] adopted has frankly been determined as much by a subjective thesis as by the interdigitation of its component parts . " 49 If , therefore , on the ...
... ment belongs . . . . The pattern here [ in the chronological charts on pp . 331-333 ] adopted has frankly been determined as much by a subjective thesis as by the interdigitation of its component parts . " 49 If , therefore , on the ...
Pagina 292
... ment and industry . The third century was a period of anarchy which ended in a totalitarian government with an economic system centering about the emperor and his army that saved the state for the final dry rot . In a word , the decline ...
... ment and industry . The third century was a period of anarchy which ended in a totalitarian government with an economic system centering about the emperor and his army that saved the state for the final dry rot . In a word , the decline ...
Pagina 300
... ment , now bent on an offensive and imperialist policy of aggrandize- ment , called the farmer to arms too often and for too long periods , he was forced to neglect his home and his fields , and fell into debt . Since he received no war ...
... ment , now bent on an offensive and imperialist policy of aggrandize- ment , called the farmer to arms too often and for too long periods , he was forced to neglect his home and his fields , and fell into debt . Since he received no war ...
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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