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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... fact that within recent times human effort , and not a new climate , has again improved the yield of the land in many places which had lain desolate and barren since antiquity , for exam- ple , the Pontine Marshes , dreaded and ...
... fact that within recent times human effort , and not a new climate , has again improved the yield of the land in many places which had lain desolate and barren since antiquity , for exam- ple , the Pontine Marshes , dreaded and ...
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... fact not be due to the greater resistance of native speech in the first as compared with the second , but only to a later acceptance of the usage of the emerging codes and rules for written Latin . From this difference , then , we may ...
... fact not be due to the greater resistance of native speech in the first as compared with the second , but only to a later acceptance of the usage of the emerging codes and rules for written Latin . From this difference , then , we may ...
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... fact that the Romance feature in question held undisputed sway in the spoken tongue , instead of being accepted as evidence of the fact that the language was beginning to change . . . . " I agree with the school attacked , because if ...
... fact that the Romance feature in question held undisputed sway in the spoken tongue , instead of being accepted as evidence of the fact that the language was beginning to change . . . . " I agree with the school attacked , because if ...
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