Romance and Indo-European Linguistics in Italy
Summary
Whereas in other countries in which historical linguistics struck root in the past century it became customary, particularly after 1870, to cultivate Romance and Indo-European studies as two separate, exacting disciplines which few specialists would want to bridge, Italy – initially under the impulse of Graziadio Isaia Ascoli — went her own way, allowing, above all, her ‘glottologi’ and, on a minor scale, her ‘filologi’ to participate actively in research conducted in both domains, with Latin serving as the obvious connection. Giacomo Devoto was the last major embodiment of this dual expertise; but many other names come to mind as well.
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Bertoldi, Vittorio
Bolza, G. B.
Cohn, Georg
Faré, Paolo A.
Flechia, G[iovanni]
Giacalone Ramat, Anna
Goidanich, Pietro Gabriele
Grammont, Maurice
Gröber, Gustav
Hall, Robert A. (Jr.)
Hubschmid, Johannes
Menarini, Alberto, and Carlo Tagliavini
Meringer, Rudolf, and Karl Mayer
Michaёlis [de Vasconcelos], Carolina
Migliorini, Bruno. (with A. Duro
Pellegrini, Giovan(ni) Battista
Rönsch, Hermann
Schmidt, Johannes
Serra, Giandomenico
Tagliavini, Carlo
Thurneysen, Rudolf