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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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... tion , and soil conservation would restore them for future genera- tions . In the meantime , the land cannot nourish the teeming and ever - increasing masses . Birth control is not practiced widely or in- telligently in Italy , partly ...
... tion , and soil conservation would restore them for future genera- tions . In the meantime , the land cannot nourish the teeming and ever - increasing masses . Birth control is not practiced widely or in- telligently in Italy , partly ...
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... tion that back of it lies a more or less unknown previous history . Applying the same pragmatic procedure to Indo - European we will say that we call Proto - Indo - European a type of language spoken at a given ( though unknown ) time ...
... tion that back of it lies a more or less unknown previous history . Applying the same pragmatic procedure to Indo - European we will say that we call Proto - Indo - European a type of language spoken at a given ( though unknown ) time ...
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... tion corresponds to the Indo - European languages , that of crema- tion to the non - Indo - European languages . This completely re- verses earlier views of dialectal and funerary correlations . His premise is : " If already at the ...
... tion corresponds to the Indo - European languages , that of crema- tion to the non - Indo - European languages . This completely re- verses earlier views of dialectal and funerary correlations . His premise is : " If already at the ...
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