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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 140
... origin of language itself . For if human language and , concomitantly , man himself orig- inated at a certain time on one point of the earth's surface and spread thence , then this point and this time also localizes the ' origin ' of ...
... origin of language itself . For if human language and , concomitantly , man himself orig- inated at a certain time on one point of the earth's surface and spread thence , then this point and this time also localizes the ' origin ' of ...
Pagina 144
... origin but merely a loan that , for some reason , spread throughout the Indo - European domain . Also a common Romanic word that appears everywhere in the Romania can be of non - Latin origin , and any original ' Latin ' form ...
... origin but merely a loan that , for some reason , spread throughout the Indo - European domain . Also a common Romanic word that appears everywhere in the Romania can be of non - Latin origin , and any original ' Latin ' form ...
Pagina 206
... origin of the Raeti , which has thrown its shadow also on the classification of their dialect . As usually , it will be erroneous to use Raeti with reference to both the authors of the inscriptions and some alleged prehistoric ...
... origin of the Raeti , which has thrown its shadow also on the classification of their dialect . As usually , it will be erroneous to use Raeti with reference to both the authors of the inscriptions and some alleged prehistoric ...
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