The Tongues of Italy: Prehistory and HistoryHarvard University Press, 1958 - 465 pagine Through the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 279
... administration , and they had constructed an efficient system of communication throughout the land . It is only natural that upon these premises the linguistic Romanization , which had already commenced and progressed according to the ...
... administration , and they had constructed an efficient system of communication throughout the land . It is only natural that upon these premises the linguistic Romanization , which had already commenced and progressed according to the ...
Pagina 344
... administration , one law , and one economy , the multilingual inhabitants of Italy , the necessity for some single means of communication , at least as an intertribal auxil- iary language , imposed itself . That this language could The ...
... administration , one law , and one economy , the multilingual inhabitants of Italy , the necessity for some single means of communication , at least as an intertribal auxil- iary language , imposed itself . That this language could The ...
Pagina 378
... administration of Italy is not changed . On the contrary , the Germans themselves , once adherents of a com- munistic form of tribal economy and governing themselves through democratic councils , adjust themselves to the ways of Rome ...
... administration of Italy is not changed . On the contrary , the Germans themselves , once adherents of a com- munistic form of tribal economy and governing themselves through democratic councils , adjust themselves to the ways of Rome ...
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