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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 329
... foreign admixture , least of all in its stages of ingress into the Roman state . And even when contemplating the ... foreign influence must have exerted itself also on Latin speech if only to the point of speeding up its transformation ...
... foreign admixture , least of all in its stages of ingress into the Roman state . And even when contemplating the ... foreign influence must have exerted itself also on Latin speech if only to the point of speeding up its transformation ...
Pagina 332
... foreign loans that are sought by the few sophisticated users of the language , but such as are attributable to what the purist would consider corrupting influences . Of course , the greater the number of the corrupters and the weaker ...
... foreign loans that are sought by the few sophisticated users of the language , but such as are attributable to what the purist would consider corrupting influences . Of course , the greater the number of the corrupters and the weaker ...
Pagina 333
... foreign cultural borrowing if we but possessed the perquisite records . If we had anywhere near the evidence for Latin that modern scholars have gathered from currently spoken idioms on bor- rowing and bilingualism , we should surely ...
... foreign cultural borrowing if we but possessed the perquisite records . If we had anywhere near the evidence for Latin that modern scholars have gathered from currently spoken idioms on bor- rowing and bilingualism , we should surely ...
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