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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 45
... Italian language , the one that is taught in Italian ( and foreign ) schools ; nonetheless a fair ( though de- creasing ) number of Italians , possibly able to understand it and read it , must admit that they cannot speak ' Italian ...
... Italian language , the one that is taught in Italian ( and foreign ) schools ; nonetheless a fair ( though de- creasing ) number of Italians , possibly able to understand it and read it , must admit that they cannot speak ' Italian ...
Pagina 58
... Italian from Latin without of course , in our eyes , making it a worse or poorer lan- guage , though one of a fundamentally different structure . Where Latin had been able to say , guided by aesthetical preference alone , pater amat ...
... Italian from Latin without of course , in our eyes , making it a worse or poorer lan- guage , though one of a fundamentally different structure . Where Latin had been able to say , guided by aesthetical preference alone , pater amat ...
Pagina 59
... Italian dialects than another living dialect would have been , as a sort of lingua franca , and that it was ... Italian dialects for this particular reason . The ordinary speaker of Tuscan knew nothing of any closeness of his dialect ...
... Italian dialects than another living dialect would have been , as a sort of lingua franca , and that it was ... Italian dialects for this particular reason . The ordinary speaker of Tuscan knew nothing of any closeness of his dialect ...
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