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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 143
... original Indo - Europeans ' and the extent and location of their ' original homeland ' seems to have taken its er- ratic course largely in a vacuum . Accordingly , the solutions were conjectural at best , but more likely meaningless ...
... original Indo - Europeans ' and the extent and location of their ' original homeland ' seems to have taken its er- ratic course largely in a vacuum . Accordingly , the solutions were conjectural at best , but more likely meaningless ...
Pagina 144
... original ( that is , we now know , relatively original ) Proto - Indo - European form . The fact that this Proto - Indo - European item is not recorded is customarily indicated in print by means of the asterisk in front of it . No claim ...
... original ( that is , we now know , relatively original ) Proto - Indo - European form . The fact that this Proto - Indo - European item is not recorded is customarily indicated in print by means of the asterisk in front of it . No claim ...
Pagina 386
... original Burgundians , came to an end through conquest by the Franks in 532 , and although the region later was subjected to numerous partitions , it nonetheless survived as a political concept . The Second Kingdom was founded in 933 ...
... original Burgundians , came to an end through conquest by the Franks in 532 , and although the region later was subjected to numerous partitions , it nonetheless survived as a political concept . The Second Kingdom was founded in 933 ...
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