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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 40
... native to Italy and were unknown to ancient Italy and in part even during the Middle Ages . The vine and the fig tree are not really autochthonous in the Apennine peninsula , although their introduction goes back to prehistoric times ...
... native to Italy and were unknown to ancient Italy and in part even during the Middle Ages . The vine and the fig tree are not really autochthonous in the Apennine peninsula , although their introduction goes back to prehistoric times ...
Pagina 58
... native to Italy learn Latin more easily than the rest , so among native Cf. Devoto 1954 , 61 . speakers of Italian dialects those of Tuscan speech have the 58 TONGUES OF ITALY.
... native to Italy learn Latin more easily than the rest , so among native Cf. Devoto 1954 , 61 . speakers of Italian dialects those of Tuscan speech have the 58 TONGUES OF ITALY.
Pagina 337
... native speaker of Oscan or Greek , to whom Latin was a second or foreign language , he cer- tainly was not up to date on the language currently in fashion in the capital . But even if the inscription had been wholly in Roman or wholly ...
... native speaker of Oscan or Greek , to whom Latin was a second or foreign language , he cer- tainly was not up to date on the language currently in fashion in the capital . But even if the inscription had been wholly in Roman or wholly ...
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