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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 174
... term Ligurian was not defined , or not defined in the same way , before the persons so called were classified within a larger ethnic or racial group , to say nothing of the fact that also the larger classes whose names I just cited ...
... term Ligurian was not defined , or not defined in the same way , before the persons so called were classified within a larger ethnic or racial group , to say nothing of the fact that also the larger classes whose names I just cited ...
Pagina 199
... term Italic generically in this sense . Also archaeologists and prehistorians , when speaking of Italic peoples , usually mean thereby the speakers of all these idioms . ( If they mean anything more , like ethnic homogeneity , they are ...
... term Italic generically in this sense . Also archaeologists and prehistorians , when speaking of Italic peoples , usually mean thereby the speakers of all these idioms . ( If they mean anything more , like ethnic homogeneity , they are ...
Pagina 202
... term . ( 4 ) By an Indo - European - speaking people who had a dialect intermediate between Keltic and Italic and whom one may well call , for want of anything better , Ligurians ; they arrived at a very remote date , but after the ...
... term . ( 4 ) By an Indo - European - speaking people who had a dialect intermediate between Keltic and Italic and whom one may well call , for want of anything better , Ligurians ; they arrived at a very remote date , but after the ...
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