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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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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The exigencies of trade and intercultural and international intercourse lead at
best to the acquisition of a foreign tongue , as a second language , by a few , and
not to the complete displacement of the primary one . Also , diffusion across a ...
The exigencies of trade and intercultural and international intercourse lead at
best to the acquisition of a foreign tongue , as a second language , by a few , and
not to the complete displacement of the primary one . Also , diffusion across a ...
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Transferring these characteristics onto the linguistic plane , we may assume that
they probably spoke , and taught the natives , a more popular , slangy type of
Latin , possibly one also richer in foreign expressions and borrowing which they
had ...
Transferring these characteristics onto the linguistic plane , we may assume that
they probably spoke , and taught the natives , a more popular , slangy type of
Latin , possibly one also richer in foreign expressions and borrowing which they
had ...
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In large part this difference is due to the fact that assimilation and absorption of
the foreign element is a declared policy and governmental philosophy in the
United States , which was not at all true of Rome , and in a perhaps smaller
degree to ...
In large part this difference is due to the fact that assimilation and absorption of
the foreign element is a declared policy and governmental philosophy in the
United States , which was not at all true of Rome , and in a perhaps smaller
degree to ...
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| Titolo | The Tongues of Italy: Prehistory and History |
| Autore | Ernst Pulgram |
| Edizione | illustrata, ristampa, riveduta |
| Editore | Harvard University Press, 1958 |
| Provenienza dell'originale | la University of California |
| Digitalizzato | 4 mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0837124387, 9780837124384 |
| Lunghezza | 465 pagine |
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