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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 80
80 In the matter of cultural spread by migration of the bearers of a culture , the appearance alone of a cultural change in a given area will give hardly an indication of the intensity and duration of the migration , or on the size of ...
80 In the matter of cultural spread by migration of the bearers of a culture , the appearance alone of a cultural change in a given area will give hardly an indication of the intensity and duration of the migration , or on the size of ...
Pagina 149
The speakers of Proto - Indo - European set out , we are told , from some focal homeland ( which to begin with was determined on false premises by means of specious methods , as we have seen ) and thence spread the race and the language ...
The speakers of Proto - Indo - European set out , we are told , from some focal homeland ( which to begin with was determined on false premises by means of specious methods , as we have seen ) and thence spread the race and the language ...
Pagina 153
16 Equally naïve and incorrect would be the view of the organic growth and branching out of languages from a common stem , like branches spreading from a tree trunk . A language is no organism , it cannot literally spring from a seed or ...
16 Equally naïve and incorrect would be the view of the organic growth and branching out of languages from a common stem , like branches spreading from a tree trunk . A language is no organism , it cannot literally spring from a seed or ...
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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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