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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 55
... social prestige to the latter . Hence it is generally taught and used in the schools ( ex- cept in German Switzerland where the use of Swiss German , unin- telligible to users of other kinds of German dialects , bears no social stigma ...
... social prestige to the latter . Hence it is generally taught and used in the schools ( ex- cept in German Switzerland where the use of Swiss German , unin- telligible to users of other kinds of German dialects , bears no social stigma ...
Pagina 324
... social positions and intellectual accomplishments over such a wide area and through so many centuries could not main- tain itself unified and unaffected by changes normally wrought by all these factors , the evidence alone as we possess ...
... social positions and intellectual accomplishments over such a wide area and through so many centuries could not main- tain itself unified and unaffected by changes normally wrought by all these factors , the evidence alone as we possess ...
Pagina 325
... social speech strata . Accordingly , one could also argue that substrata , which I put into the section on local dialects , should find their place in the section on social dialects , because thanks to the social prestige of Latin the ...
... social speech strata . Accordingly , one could also argue that substrata , which I put into the section on local dialects , should find their place in the section on social dialects , because thanks to the social prestige of Latin the ...
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