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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... speech . It was this faculty which transformed the discontinuous , nonaccumulative , nonprogressive process of tool - using among the anthropoids into a continuous , cumulative , and progressive process in the human species . Articulate ...
... speech . It was this faculty which transformed the discontinuous , nonaccumulative , nonprogressive process of tool - using among the anthropoids into a continuous , cumulative , and progressive process in the human species . Articulate ...
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... speech in intent or appearance : it is such only by default and only in spots . For even in the lowest form of literary activity , say , in scratchings on the walls of toilet and brothel ( and we do have such so - called graffiti ) ...
... speech in intent or appearance : it is such only by default and only in spots . For even in the lowest form of literary activity , say , in scratchings on the walls of toilet and brothel ( and we do have such so - called graffiti ) ...
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... speech in Pet- ronius and Apuleius , some inscriptions , some graffiti , and some glosses ; that is about all . The truth is that we do not know how people of various periods actually talked Latin , except by inference and deduction ...
... speech in Pet- ronius and Apuleius , some inscriptions , some graffiti , and some glosses ; that is about all . The truth is that we do not know how people of various periods actually talked Latin , except by inference and deduction ...
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