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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 48
... dialects . Only the easternmost part of the Po plain , and Istria , are occupied by dialects belonging to the second large northern group called Venetian , the name again recalling the pre - Roman inhabitants of the country , the Veneti ...
... dialects . Only the easternmost part of the Po plain , and Istria , are occupied by dialects belonging to the second large northern group called Venetian , the name again recalling the pre - Roman inhabitants of the country , the Veneti ...
Pagina 59
... dialects.5 However , I cannot believe that for reasons of closeness to Latin , Tuscan was also more easily intelligible to speakers of a greater number of Italian dialects than another living dialect would have been , as a sort of ...
... dialects.5 However , I cannot believe that for reasons of closeness to Latin , Tuscan was also more easily intelligible to speakers of a greater number of Italian dialects than another living dialect would have been , as a sort of ...
Pagina 339
... dialects of Italy ; in Chapter V , I listed the dialects of modern Italy . If we could find that two superimposed maps of the ancient and the modern dialects were completely congruent , a thesis of the stability of Italian dialect ...
... dialects of Italy ; in Chapter V , I listed the dialects of modern Italy . If we could find that two superimposed maps of the ancient and the modern dialects were completely congruent , a thesis of the stability of Italian dialect ...
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