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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 72
... possibly call autochthonous those persons who occupied an area before someone else . And if one is obliged to ask always , " Autochtonous with reference to whom , to what people ? " the usefulness of the term becomes ques- tionable at ...
... possibly call autochthonous those persons who occupied an area before someone else . And if one is obliged to ask always , " Autochtonous with reference to whom , to what people ? " the usefulness of the term becomes ques- tionable at ...
Pagina 187
... possibly in piratic raiding parties to begin with.27 This sparsity would also account for the comparative tenacity and continuity of the Villa- novan Iron Age , which remained for a long time the real back- bone of the rising Etruscan ...
... possibly in piratic raiding parties to begin with.27 This sparsity would also account for the comparative tenacity and continuity of the Villa- novan Iron Age , which remained for a long time the real back- bone of the rising Etruscan ...
Pagina 207
... possibly being Italici cut off from their brethren by the Keltic invasion , has no racial implications , the Italici themselves not being racially homogeneous ) , I can speak of nothing but their dialect . Once the support derived from ...
... possibly being Italici cut off from their brethren by the Keltic invasion , has no racial implications , the Italici themselves not being racially homogeneous ) , I can speak of nothing but their dialect . Once the support derived from ...
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