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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 195
... guage , even if one might be willing to surmise that Etruscan changed less than other languages over a comparable period of time , for which belief , however , it will be difficult to marshall proofs . Also dialectal variations in a ...
... guage , even if one might be willing to surmise that Etruscan changed less than other languages over a comparable period of time , for which belief , however , it will be difficult to marshall proofs . Also dialectal variations in a ...
Pagina 360
... guage , particularly in its classical form , was just another instrument of distinction which separated the masses from their oligarchic masters . In a society as class - conscious as the Roman , a badge of class distinction so easily ...
... guage , particularly in its classical form , was just another instrument of distinction which separated the masses from their oligarchic masters . In a society as class - conscious as the Roman , a badge of class distinction so easily ...
Pagina 385
... guage earliest with the natives . Social and cultural pressure and lack of necessity of continuing Germanic speech reduced and finally eliminated it . We have some evidence , not altogether con- clusive , that the Langobards had ceased ...
... guage earliest with the natives . Social and cultural pressure and lack of necessity of continuing Germanic speech reduced and finally eliminated it . We have some evidence , not altogether con- clusive , that the Langobards had ceased ...
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