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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... Mediterranean- but by then the nations whose shores it laved had spent their strength , and Italy had long since ceased to be the mistress of the world . " Of the two coasts of Italy , the Tyrrhenian and the Adriatic , the latter has ...
... Mediterranean- but by then the nations whose shores it laved had spent their strength , and Italy had long since ceased to be the mistress of the world . " Of the two coasts of Italy , the Tyrrhenian and the Adriatic , the latter has ...
Pagina 106
... Mediterranean race to which the neolithic invaders ( or even autoch- thonous neolithic inhabitants ) would belong . Many scholars , with whom I agree , either reject altogether the hypothesis of a Mediterranean race in the physical ...
... Mediterranean race to which the neolithic invaders ( or even autoch- thonous neolithic inhabitants ) would belong . Many scholars , with whom I agree , either reject altogether the hypothesis of a Mediterranean race in the physical ...
Pagina 107
... Mediterranean dialects ' in the subsequent discussion , it should al- ways be understood with this trenchant restriction . 18 Devoto 1940 , 43-50 , distinguishes in fact five great Mediterranean linguistic areas : Libyan , Iberian ...
... Mediterranean dialects ' in the subsequent discussion , it should al- ways be understood with this trenchant restriction . 18 Devoto 1940 , 43-50 , distinguishes in fact five great Mediterranean linguistic areas : Libyan , Iberian ...
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