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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... practiced widely or in- telligently in Italy , partly because of ignorance of proper methods , partly because of the violent opposition of the Catholic Church . Out of 18,000,000 persons who constitute the working popula- tion of Italy ...
... practiced widely or in- telligently in Italy , partly because of ignorance of proper methods , partly because of the violent opposition of the Catholic Church . Out of 18,000,000 persons who constitute the working popula- tion of Italy ...
Pagina 221
... practiced cremation . " Indeed we do not even know whether cremation and the cor- responding graves became universal in what we call cremating districts , or when they did . If we imagine , as we must , that the spread of the Indo ...
... practiced cremation . " Indeed we do not even know whether cremation and the cor- responding graves became universal in what we call cremating districts , or when they did . If we imagine , as we must , that the spread of the Indo ...
Pagina 299
... practice of driving small holders into forced sales . Between 118 and 112 the Gracchan land commission for the redistribution of land was abolished . In 111 , in a partial reversal of the annulment of Gracchan land policies , all lands ...
... practice of driving small holders into forced sales . Between 118 and 112 the Gracchan land commission for the redistribution of land was abolished . In 111 , in a partial reversal of the annulment of Gracchan land policies , all lands ...
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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