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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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Pagina 76
African Negroes , and Mongolians are vast enough to warrant the term racial . Whether the word should still be used with reference to the distinction , still obvious enough to the naked eye , between Swedes and Sicilians is another ...
African Negroes , and Mongolians are vast enough to warrant the term racial . Whether the word should still be used with reference to the distinction , still obvious enough to the naked eye , between Swedes and Sicilians is another ...
Pagina 77
20 The only racial feature which Cro Magnon men and modern Europeans can provedly be said to have in common is their humanness . But to clinch the argument there is elsewhere in the same book a photograph of five peasant women from the ...
20 The only racial feature which Cro Magnon men and modern Europeans can provedly be said to have in common is their humanness . But to clinch the argument there is elsewhere in the same book a photograph of five peasant women from the ...
Pagina 83
linguistic , racial , and cultural origins , spread , and changes can be postulated a priori , but that each instance has to be probed on its own terms , on the basis of whatever records are available . It is , of course , very tempting ...
linguistic , racial , and cultural origins , spread , and changes can be postulated a priori , but that each instance has to be probed on its own terms , on the basis of whatever records are available . It is , of course , very tempting ...
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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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