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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 59
... speakers of a greater number of Italian dialects than another living dialect would have been , as a sort of lingua franca , and that it was therefore singled out . Indeed it seems to me that the two claims are incom- patible : the ...
... speakers of a greater number of Italian dialects than another living dialect would have been , as a sort of lingua franca , and that it was therefore singled out . Indeed it seems to me that the two claims are incom- patible : the ...
Pagina 202
... speakers of Indo - European penetrated into the Lig- urian region and , like their fellow Indo - European speakers else- where , imposed their language upon the natives who probably were not too numerous themselves . Again it is only ...
... speakers of Indo - European penetrated into the Lig- urian region and , like their fellow Indo - European speakers else- where , imposed their language upon the natives who probably were not too numerous themselves . Again it is only ...
Pagina 243
... speakers of Indo - European observed two different burial rites in neighboring regions , without their coming in two different ethnic thrusts , each speaking a different dialect . If inhuming was , as it appears to have been , the rite ...
... speakers of Indo - European observed two different burial rites in neighboring regions , without their coming in two different ethnic thrusts , each speaking a different dialect . If inhuming was , as it appears to have been , the rite ...
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