«Veneziano de là da mar», ‘Venetian from beyond the sea’, this is how Gianfranco Folena referred to vernaculars of the eastern Mediterranean (Dalmatia, Aegean Sea, western Asia) that were strongly influenced by the Venetian dialect. This volume gathers new contributions by leading specialists which discuss this particularly interesting case of language contact outside of Italy in the Middle Ages and in the beginning of the early modern era.

«Veneziano de là da mar», ‘Venetian from beyond the sea’, this is how Gianfranco Folena referred to vernaculars of the eastern Mediterranean (Dalmatia, Aegean Sea, western Asia) that were strongly influenced by the Venetian dialect. This volume gathers new contributions by leading specialists which discuss this particularly interesting case of language contact outside of Italy in the Middle Ages and in the beginning of the early modern era.

«Veneziano de là da mar», ‘Venetian from beyond the sea’, this is how Gianfranco Folena referred to vernaculars of the eastern Mediterranean (Dalmatia, Aegean Sea, western Asia) that were strongly influenced by the Venetian dialect. This volume gathers new contributions by leading specialists which discuss this particularly interesting case of language contact outside of Italy in the Middle Ages and in the beginning of the early modern era.