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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... racial . Whether the word should still be used with reference to the distinction , still obvious enough to the naked eye , between Swedes and Sicilians is another matter . But to throw together into a Latin race all the speakers of ...
... racial . Whether the word should still be used with reference to the distinction , still obvious enough to the naked eye , between Swedes and Sicilians is another matter . But to throw together into a Latin race all the speakers of ...
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... racial purity . In other words , we have agreed on what to call a beginning , a proto - stage of Latin , with the full realiza- tion that back of it lies a more or less unknown previous history . Applying the same pragmatic procedure to ...
... racial purity . In other words , we have agreed on what to call a beginning , a proto - stage of Latin , with the full realiza- tion that back of it lies a more or less unknown previous history . Applying the same pragmatic procedure to ...
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Prehistory and History Ernst Pulgram. 26 authors and times . The principal racial protagonists are supposedly the Sabines and the Latins , whose fancied racial parallel to their real linguistic heterogeneity is exploited to explain the ...
Prehistory and History Ernst Pulgram. 26 authors and times . The principal racial protagonists are supposedly the Sabines and the Latins , whose fancied racial parallel to their real linguistic heterogeneity is exploited to explain the ...
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