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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... whole length of the Italian boot , from the straps to the tip of the toe . Although the whole mass is geologically neither uniform nor of equal age , it presents the appearance of a continuous unit , but without a unique principal ...
... whole length of the Italian boot , from the straps to the tip of the toe . Although the whole mass is geologically neither uniform nor of equal age , it presents the appearance of a continuous unit , but without a unique principal ...
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... whole one may accept the early second millennium before Christ as the period into which the beginning of the Indo - Europeanization of Italy falls . The linguist can add no records to ease the work of the prehistorian because he is ...
... whole one may accept the early second millennium before Christ as the period into which the beginning of the Indo - Europeanization of Italy falls . The linguist can add no records to ease the work of the prehistorian because he is ...
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... whole we shall be on safer ground , and the alleged ethnic and linguistic entities of the preceding centuries which we had to regard with considerable skepticism can now more confidently be placed in their respective domains and ...
... whole we shall be on safer ground , and the alleged ethnic and linguistic entities of the preceding centuries which we had to regard with considerable skepticism can now more confidently be placed in their respective domains and ...
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