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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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significant in any written document , their presence does not yet make a document of this type an example of vulgar speech in intent or appearance : it is such only by default and only in spots . For even in the lowest form of literary ...
significant in any written document , their presence does not yet make a document of this type an example of vulgar speech in intent or appearance : it is such only by default and only in spots . For even in the lowest form of literary ...
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Where an author wishes to render faithfully even the phonology of popular speech , the very requirement of having to write it down will pose difficulties , for , short of employing a phonetic transcrip- tion , which is impossible for ...
Where an author wishes to render faithfully even the phonology of popular speech , the very requirement of having to write it down will pose difficulties , for , short of employing a phonetic transcrip- tion , which is impossible for ...
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into a language which was " a blend of colloquial speech with the archaic forms of the religious carmina and the formulae of the law , embellished with native cosmetics , with the lumina of Greek rhetoric , and the flowers of ...
into a language which was " a blend of colloquial speech with the archaic forms of the religious carmina and the formulae of the law , embellished with native cosmetics , with the lumina of Greek rhetoric , and the flowers of ...
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