The Tongues of Italy: Prehistory and HistoryThrough the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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The ordinary speaker of Tuscan knew nothing of any closeness of his dialect with Latin , or of any remoteness of other dialects from it , and the same goes for the speaker of other Italian idioms . Hence there can be no question of ...
The ordinary speaker of Tuscan knew nothing of any closeness of his dialect with Latin , or of any remoteness of other dialects from it , and the same goes for the speaker of other Italian idioms . Hence there can be no question of ...
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Whether the palaeolithic people of Italy were actually annihilated is a difficult question to answer , again for obvious lack of evidence . Patroni , at least , believes that a Mediterranean race does not arrive from Africa ( or the ...
Whether the palaeolithic people of Italy were actually annihilated is a difficult question to answer , again for obvious lack of evidence . Patroni , at least , believes that a Mediterranean race does not arrive from Africa ( or the ...
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There can be no question of offering in this chapter anything more than a brief discussion in general terms ... argument of the present book as a whole.1 As usually , there are two basic questions to be asked : Who were the Etruscans ?
There can be no question of offering in this chapter anything more than a brief discussion in general terms ... argument of the present book as a whole.1 As usually , there are two basic questions to be asked : Who were the Etruscans ?
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Informazioni bibliografiche
| Titolo | The Tongues of Italy: Prehistory and History |
| Autore | Ernst Pulgram |
| Edizione | illustrata, ristampa, riveduta |
| Editore | Harvard University Press, 1958 |
| ISBN | 0837124387, 9780837124384 |
| Lunghezza | 465 pagine |
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