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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 104
... brought about by immigration in fairly large numbers of better equipped and more intelligent men who supplanted , or at least submerged , the crude , clumsy , and apparently slow - witted palaeo- lithic creatures . In Italy , as ...
... brought about by immigration in fairly large numbers of better equipped and more intelligent men who supplanted , or at least submerged , the crude , clumsy , and apparently slow - witted palaeo- lithic creatures . In Italy , as ...
Pagina 121
... brought iron to northern Italy . And since the newcomers , to the best of our knowledge , came from the same cultural area as the Terramaricoli , that is , from the Danubian lands , chances are , and later corroborative evidence ...
... brought iron to northern Italy . And since the newcomers , to the best of our knowledge , came from the same cultural area as the Terramaricoli , that is , from the Danubian lands , chances are , and later corroborative evidence ...
Pagina 128
... brought Indo - European dialects to Italy , and there is scarcely any doubt that they did , then what we know about the conditions and the course of the growth and diversification of a linguistic area virtually imposes on us , in ...
... brought Indo - European dialects to Italy , and there is scarcely any doubt that they did , then what we know about the conditions and the course of the growth and diversification of a linguistic area virtually imposes on us , in ...
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