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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 45
... foreign ) schools ; nonetheless a fair ( though decreasing ) number of Italians , possibly able to understand it and read it , must admit that they cannot speak ' Italian , ' or speak it haltingly and with a strong regional accent .
... foreign ) schools ; nonetheless a fair ( though decreasing ) number of Italians , possibly able to understand it and read it , must admit that they cannot speak ' Italian , ' or speak it haltingly and with a strong regional accent .
Pagina 162
If we furthermore credulously accept also Herodotus ' report about Pelasgians speaking a non - Greek unintelligible ... Since the Oscans known to us several centuries later speak an Indo - European language , it seems to have followed ...
If we furthermore credulously accept also Herodotus ' report about Pelasgians speaking a non - Greek unintelligible ... Since the Oscans known to us several centuries later speak an Indo - European language , it seems to have followed ...
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... whence we speak of a non - IndoEuropean substratum and not of an Indo - European superstratum.18 In this process ... no doubt at different dates infiltrations of Indo - European - speaking persons whose languages the natives adopted ...
... whence we speak of a non - IndoEuropean substratum and not of an Indo - European superstratum.18 In this process ... no doubt at different dates infiltrations of Indo - European - speaking persons whose languages the natives adopted ...
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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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