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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... possessed by humans only.1 " Man began his career as an anthropoid who was just learning to talk . He was distinguished from all other animal species by the faculty of articulate speech . It was this faculty which transformed the ...
... possessed by humans only.1 " Man began his career as an anthropoid who was just learning to talk . He was distinguished from all other animal species by the faculty of articulate speech . It was this faculty which transformed the ...
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... 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 obtain from it the same fundamental ...
... 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 obtain from it the same fundamental ...
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... possessed equally rich finds of other tribes and cultures of that era . Since what we today term Umbrian may therefore have been no more than a local dialect of small geographic extent ( some have therefore suggested that it be called ...
... possessed equally rich finds of other tribes and cultures of that era . Since what we today term Umbrian may therefore have been no more than a local dialect of small geographic extent ( some have therefore suggested that it be called ...
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