The Tongues of Italy : Prehistory and History / Ernst Pulgram.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pulgram, Ernst, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Italy.

Italy--Languages.

Latin language--History.

Local Subjects:

Ethnology--Italy.

Italy--Languages.

Latin language--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (476 p.): 5 Ktn.

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No detailed description available for "The Tongues of Italy".

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

CONTENTS

Note

INTRODUCTION

BOOK ONE MODERN ITALY

Part One. Introduction to Italy

CHAPTER I. The Land

CHAPTER II. The Climate

CHAPTER III. The People

Part Two. The Italian Language

CHAPTER V. The Dialects of Italy

CHAPTER VI. The Italian Standard Language

BOOK TWO PRE-ROMAN ITALY

Part Three. Prehistoric Background

CHAPTER VII. Language, Race, and Culture

CHAPTER VIII. Prehistoric Europe

CHAPTER IX. Italy in the Stone Ages

CHAPTER X. Northern and Central Italy in the Metal Ages

CHAPTER XI. Southern Italy in the Metal Ages

CHAPTER XII. Linguistic Inferences and Conclusions

Part Four. The Indo-Europeanization of Italy

CHAPTER XIII. Indo-European and 'Indo-Europeans'

CHAPTER XIV. The Linguistic Protohistory of Italy

CHAPTER XV. The Etruscan Problem

CHAPTER XVI. The Pre-Italic Dialects

CHAPTER XVII. The Italic and Latinian Dialects

CHAPTER XVIII. Conclusions

BOOK THREE ROMAN ITALY

Part Five. The Latinization of Italy

CHAPTER XIX. The Proto-Latin Period

CHAPTER XX. The Origins of Rome

CHAPTER XXI. The Spread of Latin in Italy

APPENDIX I: ROME'S CONQUEST OF ITALY

APPENDIX II: THE COLONIES

Part Six. The History of Latin

CHAPTER XXII. Historic Background (200 B.C.-A.D.300)

CHAPTER XXIII. Spoken and Written Latin

CHAPTER XXIV. The Dialects of Spoken Latin

CHAPTER XXV. The Literary Language

BOOK FOUR MEDIAEVAL ITALY

Part Seven. The Abortive Germanization of Italy

CHAPTER XXVI. Historic Background, 300-80

CHAPTER XXVII. Germanic Dialects in Italy

Part Eight. The Italianization of Italy

CHAPTER XXVIII. Historic Background, 800-1250

CHAPTER XXIX. From Latin to Italian

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ISBN:

0-674-43509-5

OCLC:

1013948048