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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... Learned Societies , for a Faculty Study Fellowship , 1951-52 ; University of Michigan , for granting a leave of absence in 1951-52 , and a Sabbatical Leave in 1954–55 ; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation , for a Fellow- ship in ...
... Learned Societies , for a Faculty Study Fellowship , 1951-52 ; University of Michigan , for granting a leave of absence in 1951-52 , and a Sabbatical Leave in 1954–55 ; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation , for a Fellow- ship in ...
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... learned and pseudo - learned has scarcely deflected the course of linguistic history in Italy . Previous and subsequent events show decisively that the answers to all these questions had in prac- tice been anticipated and started on ...
... learned and pseudo - learned has scarcely deflected the course of linguistic history in Italy . Previous and subsequent events show decisively that the answers to all these questions had in prac- tice been anticipated and started on ...
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... learned it on the way to Italy ; at least there is no evidence of its use east of Lemnos . If previously the Proto - Etruscans wrote at all , they must have used a different script . This is one more reason why we cannot actually find ...
... learned it on the way to Italy ; at least there is no evidence of its use east of Lemnos . If previously the Proto - Etruscans wrote at all , they must have used a different script . This is one more reason why we cannot actually find ...
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