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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 196
... writing of different areas.67 Whatever the disputed details on the spread and development of these Italic scripts , 68 the fact remains that the speakers of Indo- European dialects in Italy acquired the art of writing from the Etruscans ...
... writing of different areas.67 Whatever the disputed details on the spread and development of these Italic scripts , 68 the fact remains that the speakers of Indo- European dialects in Italy acquired the art of writing from the Etruscans ...
Pagina 316
... writing of all types by both literary and naïve authors , in novels , poems , plays , and inscriptions of all types . Unlike popularisms on the phonological level , those on ... Writing , therefore , meant writing the 316 TONGUES OF ITALY.
... writing of all types by both literary and naïve authors , in novels , poems , plays , and inscriptions of all types . Unlike popularisms on the phonological level , those on ... Writing , therefore , meant writing the 316 TONGUES OF ITALY.
Pagina 406
... writer is no linguistic trail - blazer . And Politzer's " suddenness of the removal of the restraining influences " occurs in writing , in the documents , while in the speech of the masses there were no restraining influences to be ...
... writer is no linguistic trail - blazer . And Politzer's " suddenness of the removal of the restraining influences " occurs in writing , in the documents , while in the speech of the masses there were no restraining influences to be ...
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