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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... speech is inevitably inhibited by the use of the verse form . Where an author wishes to render faithfully even the phonology of popular speech , the very requirement of having to write it down will pose difficulties , for , short of ...
... speech is inevitably inhibited by the use of the verse form . Where an author wishes to render faithfully even the phonology of popular speech , the very requirement of having to write it down will pose difficulties , for , short of ...
Pagina 321
... speech in Pet- ronius and Apuleius , some inscriptions , some graffiti , and some glosses ; that is about all . The truth is that we do not know how people of various periods actually talked Latin , except by inference and deduction ...
... speech in Pet- ronius and Apuleius , some inscriptions , some graffiti , and some glosses ; that is about all . The truth is that we do not know how people of various periods actually talked Latin , except by inference and deduction ...
Pagina 359
... speech with the archaic forms of the religious carmina and the formulae of the law , embellished with native cosmetics , with the lumina of Greek rhetoric , and the flowers of contemporary poetic diction . " 24 What were the visible ...
... speech with the archaic forms of the religious carmina and the formulae of the law , embellished with native cosmetics , with the lumina of Greek rhetoric , and the flowers of contemporary poetic diction . " 24 What were the visible ...
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