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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 40
... native to Italy and were unknown to ancient Italy and in part even during the Middle Ages . The vine and the fig tree are not really autochthonous in the Apennine peninsula , although their introduction goes back to prehistoric times ...
... native to Italy and were unknown to ancient Italy and in part even during the Middle Ages . The vine and the fig tree are not really autochthonous in the Apennine peninsula , although their introduction goes back to prehistoric times ...
Pagina 58
... native to Italy learn Latin more easily than the rest , so among native ' Cf. Devoto 1954 , 61 . speakers of Italian dialects those of Tuscan speech have the 58 TONGUES OF ITALY.
... native to Italy learn Latin more easily than the rest , so among native ' Cf. Devoto 1954 , 61 . speakers of Italian dialects those of Tuscan speech have the 58 TONGUES OF ITALY.
Pagina 243
... native rite although they had accepted an Indo - European tongue . But if he implies , as I think that he does , that the Proto - Latini were an ethnic invading group , one of whose characteristics was inhumation , then he is wrong , I ...
... native rite although they had accepted an Indo - European tongue . But if he implies , as I think that he does , that the Proto - Latini were an ethnic invading group , one of whose characteristics was inhumation , then he is wrong , I ...
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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