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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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
... appear in Southern Etruscan , Campanian Etruscan , and Venetic writing , are meaning- less in an alphabetic script and point to an older state of syllabic writing among the Etruscans , perhaps similar to the one found on Cyprus . 66 But ...
... appear in Southern Etruscan , Campanian Etruscan , and Venetic writing , are meaning- less in an alphabetic script and point to an older state of syllabic writing among the Etruscans , perhaps similar to the one found on Cyprus . 66 But ...
Pagina 250
... appear in such divergent shapes , even in the records of a relatively late period , after the local idioms had already undergone a few centuries of convergent development . On the whole , the Italic dialects ( not tribes ! ) move ...
... appear in such divergent shapes , even in the records of a relatively late period , after the local idioms had already undergone a few centuries of convergent development . On the whole , the Italic dialects ( not tribes ! ) move ...
Pagina 334
... appear- ance at a given place can give us no trustworthy information on the precise nonlinguistic causes of their existence in this spot rather than elsewhere , on their persistence , and spread . In other words , these foreignisms do ...
... appear- ance at a given place can give us no trustworthy information on the precise nonlinguistic causes of their existence in this spot rather than elsewhere , on their persistence , and spread . In other words , these foreignisms do ...
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