The Tongues of Italy: Prehistory and History

✍ Scribed by Ernst Pulgram

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Year: 1958
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 480
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

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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