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the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them.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 319
... WRITTEN LATIN Mediaeval OLD LATIN Classical Post - classical SPOKEN LATIN - Proto - Romanic Fig . 2 WRITTEN ROMANIC Romanic Vernaculars mension I have reproduced 5000 years of Egyptian and only 1300 years of Latin history . But the ...
... WRITTEN LATIN Mediaeval OLD LATIN Classical Post - classical SPOKEN LATIN - Proto - Romanic Fig . 2 WRITTEN ROMANIC Romanic Vernaculars mension I have reproduced 5000 years of Egyptian and only 1300 years of Latin history . But the ...
Pagina 321
... written and spoken Latin converge . At that time , a written classical tradition was just emerging ; that is , Roman literature is being created ( almost exclusively on Greek models ) , and the linguistic evidence we have from the ...
... written and spoken Latin converge . At that time , a written classical tradition was just emerging ; that is , Roman literature is being created ( almost exclusively on Greek models ) , and the linguistic evidence we have from the ...
Pagina 407
... written language , does not so flare out in a definite number of dialects : although localisms may be discerned in it , reflected by the downward ' vulgarizing ' slant of the line , it continues the classical tradition . No wonder ...
... written language , does not so flare out in a definite number of dialects : although localisms may be discerned in it , reflected by the downward ' vulgarizing ' slant of the line , it continues the classical tradition . No wonder ...
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