Yes, Andrei, your comment (irredentism) is disappointing to me. Yes, I'm a Dalmatian of Dalmatian ancestry (islander) and I'm proud of it. My natural language is Chakavian Croatian, it means that I usually speak a lot of Dalmatian (Romance) language words, but also there are many words of Venetian origin (transferred to Chakavian during Reinnesance). What's more, Chakavian was the original language of the first Croats who initially appeared in the northern Dalmatia, the oldest Croatian inscriptions were written in Chakavian Cro and Glagolithic alphabet. Additionally, the Croats were the saviours of the Latin culture in Dalmatia, they never tried to destroy it, they completely excepted it and practically prolonged its life, so you can say that Antique has died by natural death in Dalmatia and not by force, while in many other parts of Europe it disappeared by violence. On the other side I'll always fight any kind of nationalism, including Croatian and Italian, but it's not the case here. Is it? I'm actually a supporter of Chakavian revival to the modern standardized Croatian (based on Neo-Stokavian), so it would include Dalmatian Romance words too!  
 :I don't support any theory to prove something. I've just reported about modern tendencies in historiography concerning the most of Europe and here I was talking about all Illyricum and not only about Dalmatia or Croatia (and I've specified Dalmatia as one of the most Romanized regions of Illyricum in this discussion above there). BTW multidisciplinary science has described Croatian ethnogenesis in the main elements like this: Liburni, Iapodes, western Ardiaei, Dalmatae (which includes a few other familiar tribes), Histri, OstroGoths, Sclaveni, Romans (Dalmatian languages speakers in the coastal Dalmatian cities in the Early Medieval). How much certain group contributed is very hard to determine and will be never known, I guess. 
 :I'm not angry on you, we are all human beings ;)