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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... showed nowhere , at any time , a severely abrupt change . The inevitable conclusion was therefore that during the metal ages no ethnic mass migrations took place . We are still far from the threshold of history in Italy . But eventually ...
... showed nowhere , at any time , a severely abrupt change . The inevitable conclusion was therefore that during the metal ages no ethnic mass migrations took place . We are still far from the threshold of history in Italy . But eventually ...
Pagina 296
... showed themselves eager for military service , and neglected the bringing up of children , so that soon all Italy was conscious of a dearth of freemen , and was filled with gangs of foreign slaves , by whose aid the rich cultivated ...
... showed themselves eager for military service , and neglected the bringing up of children , so that soon all Italy was conscious of a dearth of freemen , and was filled with gangs of foreign slaves , by whose aid the rich cultivated ...
Pagina 339
... showed peculiarities that can be connected with Keltic 18 See Pulgram 1949 , 243 , n . 11 . 10 The boundary which separates the northern from the central dialects is roughly the La Spezia - Rimini line , separating also Eastern from ...
... showed peculiarities that can be connected with Keltic 18 See Pulgram 1949 , 243 , n . 11 . 10 The boundary which separates the northern from the central dialects is roughly the La Spezia - Rimini line , separating also Eastern from ...
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