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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 28
... course spurious , racial and ethnic continuity ; that the Italian child somehow ( one wonders how ) sucks from his mother's breast the spirit of ancient Rome ; that thereby Italians are the keepers and promoters of cul- ture and ...
... course spurious , racial and ethnic continuity ; that the Italian child somehow ( one wonders how ) sucks from his mother's breast the spirit of ancient Rome ; that thereby Italians are the keepers and promoters of cul- ture and ...
Pagina 115
... course no one , not even the most fanatic autochthonist , cares to suggest that Indo - European languages were indigenous in Italy . 2a Cf. Randall - MacIver 1924 , 95 ; Peet 1909 , 421-424 ; Rellini 1929 , 9-11 . Leopold 1932 , 37-38 ...
... course no one , not even the most fanatic autochthonist , cares to suggest that Indo - European languages were indigenous in Italy . 2a Cf. Randall - MacIver 1924 , 95 ; Peet 1909 , 421-424 ; Rellini 1929 , 9-11 . Leopold 1932 , 37-38 ...
Pagina 277
... course than the Via Latina , traversed the Pontine marshes , and ended for the time being at Capua after a course of 132 miles . Together the Appia and the Latina served the numerous colonies , Latin and Roman , which had by then sprung ...
... course than the Via Latina , traversed the Pontine marshes , and ended for the time being at Capua after a course of 132 miles . Together the Appia and the Latina served the numerous colonies , Latin and Roman , which had by then sprung ...
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