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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 61
... scholarly temper of the times , the rise of the Tuscan language fell into a time of retrospection toward classical ... scholars and amateurs , even in our day . The basic problem was to decide in theory , first , whether Italian or ...
... scholarly temper of the times , the rise of the Tuscan language fell into a time of retrospection toward classical ... scholars and amateurs , even in our day . The basic problem was to decide in theory , first , whether Italian or ...
Pagina 88
... scholars concerning details as well as general trends in the pre- history of Europe . At the end of an outstanding ... scholar to whom the findings of pre- historians serve as corroborative testimony to dispel or lighten the doubts ...
... scholars concerning details as well as general trends in the pre- history of Europe . At the end of an outstanding ... scholar to whom the findings of pre- historians serve as corroborative testimony to dispel or lighten the doubts ...
Pagina 106
... scholars , with whom I agree , either reject altogether the hypothesis of a Mediterranean race in the physical sense in which Sergi and others would have it , or at least plead agnosticism in view of insufficient evidence . No matter ...
... scholars , with whom I agree , either reject altogether the hypothesis of a Mediterranean race in the physical sense in which Sergi and others would have it , or at least plead agnosticism in view of insufficient evidence . No matter ...
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