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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 305
... success stories of the first century after Christ ( reported with tongue in cheek by Petronius in a novel entitled Satyricon ) is that of the freedman Trimalchio , told by the hero himself at a blatantly sumptuous dinner party , the ...
... success stories of the first century after Christ ( reported with tongue in cheek by Petronius in a novel entitled Satyricon ) is that of the freedman Trimalchio , told by the hero himself at a blatantly sumptuous dinner party , the ...
Pagina 331
... successful artists , that is , persons otherwise socially acceptable in any event . But it is equally true that an Oscan brogue in Rome and an Irish brogue in Boston are more studiously avoided and more discriminated against on the Hill ...
... successful artists , that is , persons otherwise socially acceptable in any event . But it is equally true that an Oscan brogue in Rome and an Irish brogue in Boston are more studiously avoided and more discriminated against on the Hill ...
Pagina 376
... success of Rome's enemies and shortened the sojourn of those who contrived to settle in Italy , but it also divested each tribe of the sense of security and superiority and of that quasi - missionary fervor which a people needs ...
... success of Rome's enemies and shortened the sojourn of those who contrived to settle in Italy , but it also divested each tribe of the sense of security and superiority and of that quasi - missionary fervor which a people needs ...
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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