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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 177
... ethnic classification and prehistory of the persons to whom we owe these records and who are called Siculi there exist a number of violently clashing theories . I shall simply cite a few , retaining the ethnic and linguistic terminology ...
... ethnic classification and prehistory of the persons to whom we owe these records and who are called Siculi there exist a number of violently clashing theories . I shall simply cite a few , retaining the ethnic and linguistic terminology ...
Pagina 181
... ethnic and linguistic names make strange river - bedfellows . Hence , I should reject labeling the speakers of these pre - Indo - European idioms with cultural , ethnic , or linguistic names prevalent centuries later in the same places ...
... ethnic and linguistic names make strange river - bedfellows . Hence , I should reject labeling the speakers of these pre - Indo - European idioms with cultural , ethnic , or linguistic names prevalent centuries later in the same places ...
Pagina 200
... ethnic , racial composition of the population of Italy . But both these errors have been committed , and , as usually , by making arbitrary term- inological distinctions the starting point for ethnic and linguistic theories or ...
... ethnic , racial composition of the population of Italy . But both these errors have been committed , and , as usually , by making arbitrary term- inological distinctions the starting point for ethnic and linguistic theories or ...
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