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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... existence of a homogeneous 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 ...
... existence of a homogeneous 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 ...
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... existence of certain items of vocabulary in all or a majority of the extant Indo - European languages , and blandly ignoring all the possible pitfalls just noted , they even fabricated conclusions concerning the social organization ...
... existence of certain items of vocabulary in all or a majority of the extant Indo - European languages , and blandly ignoring all the possible pitfalls just noted , they even fabricated conclusions concerning the social organization ...
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... existence of fantastic peoples , like the Aborigines and the Pelasgians . But what should we say of a modern science which has created the ' Villanovan people ' simply out of the fact that certain primitive tribes of Italy had in common ...
... existence of fantastic peoples , like the Aborigines and the Pelasgians . But what should we say of a modern science which has created the ' Villanovan people ' simply out of the fact that certain primitive tribes of Italy had in common ...
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