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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... result in more varied and intricate , more easily produced and more serv- iceable shapes , and that in a liquid state it can be alloyed with an- other metal , tin , so that the result is a harder and more useful sub- stance . The Bronze ...
... result in more varied and intricate , more easily produced and more serv- iceable shapes , and that in a liquid state it can be alloyed with an- other metal , tin , so that the result is a harder and more useful sub- stance . The Bronze ...
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... results . A number of scholars did in fact reject the whole supposition of terramare ancestry for Rome , 31 32 But ... result , " which is an undeservedly harsh judgment ) ; Barocelli 1942 , 143-144 ; Childe 1947 , 242-244 . But Devoto ...
... results . A number of scholars did in fact reject the whole supposition of terramare ancestry for Rome , 31 32 But ... result , " which is an undeservedly harsh judgment ) ; Barocelli 1942 , 143-144 ; Childe 1947 , 242-244 . But Devoto ...
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... results of the most spontaneous and least inhibited development of Latin- the Romanic , and more narrowly for our ... result that people talk again like some remote ancestors whose speech had not been heard for centuries.17 The reason ...
... results of the most spontaneous and least inhibited development of Latin- the Romanic , and more narrowly for our ... result that people talk again like some remote ancestors whose speech had not been heard for centuries.17 The reason ...
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