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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 151
... known Semitic tongues . In terms of ethnology and race nothing can be said whatever as to who the speakers of Proto - Indo - European might have been.11 One cannot , of course , reject out of hand the possibility that within this ...
... known Semitic tongues . In terms of ethnology and race nothing can be said whatever as to who the speakers of Proto - Indo - European might have been.11 One cannot , of course , reject out of hand the possibility that within this ...
Pagina 175
... known Ligurian dialect of historical times , we must not refer to anything prehistoric as Ligurian , unless it were a related lan- guage ; but such a one , of course , we do not know . And the prehistoric dwellers of Liguria of ...
... known Ligurian dialect of historical times , we must not refer to anything prehistoric as Ligurian , unless it were a related lan- guage ; but such a one , of course , we do not know . And the prehistoric dwellers of Liguria of ...
Pagina 191
... known at the present time , this term is not ethnic but either merely geographic , or tentatively linguistic , referring to non - Indo - European dialects possibly spoken around the entire Mediterranean basin and to which we owe some ...
... known at the present time , this term is not ethnic but either merely geographic , or tentatively linguistic , referring to non - Indo - European dialects possibly spoken around the entire Mediterranean basin and to which we owe some ...
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