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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... WRITTEN LATIN Mediaeval WRITTEN ROMANIC Proto - Romanic Romanic Vernaculars Fig . 2 mension I have reproduced 5000 years of Egyptian and only 1300 years of Latin history . But the larger scale permits a detail which could hardly appear ...
... WRITTEN LATIN Mediaeval WRITTEN ROMANIC Proto - Romanic Romanic Vernaculars Fig . 2 mension I have reproduced 5000 years of Egyptian and only 1300 years of Latin history . But the larger scale permits a detail which could hardly appear ...
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... writing , may well have handled the language less properly , phonemically and grammatically , in speaking . A written text can be revised and corrected , the flow of speech cannot ; people who do not write an unfamiliar language with a ...
... writing , may well have handled the language less properly , phonemically and grammatically , in speaking . A written text can be revised and corrected , the flow of speech cannot ; people who do not write an unfamiliar language with a ...
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... written and spoken Latin converge . At that time , a written classical tradition was just emerging ; that is , Roman literature is being created ( almost exclusively on Greek models ) , and the linguistic evidence we have from the ...
... written and spoken Latin converge . At that time , a written classical tradition was just emerging ; that is , Roman literature is being created ( almost exclusively on Greek models ) , and the linguistic evidence we have from the ...
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