1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910136782703321

Autore

Breen Gavan

Titolo

Innamincka talk : a grammar of the Innamincka dialect of Yandruwandha with notes on other dialects / / Gavan Breen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

ANU Press, 2015

Canberra, Australia : , : ANU eView, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-921934-20-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 pages) : illustrations, maps; digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

306.440899915

Soggetti

Aboriginal Australians - Languages

Yandruwandha language - Dialects - Grammar

Yandruwandha language L18

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Innamincka Talk: A grammar of the Innamincka dialect of Yandruwandha with notes on other dialects is one of a pair of companion volumes on Yandruwandha, a dialect of the language formerly spoken on the Cooper and Strzelecki Creeks and the country to the north of the Cooper, in the northeast corner of South Australia and a neighbouring strip of Queensland. The other volume is entitledInnamincka Words. Innamincka Talk is the more technical work of the two and is intended for specialists and for interested readers who are willing to put some time and effort into studying the language.Innamincka Words is for readers, especially descendants of the original people of the area, who are interested in the language, but not necessarily interested in its more technical aspects. It is also a necessary resource for users of Innamincka Talk. These volumes document all that could be learnt from the last speakers of the language in the last years of their lives by a linguist who was involved with other languages at the same time. These were people who did not have a full knowledge of the culture of their forebears, but were highly competent, indeed brilliant, in the way they could teach what they knew



to the linguist student.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910148943603321

Autore

Martin George R. R. <1948->

Titolo

Hunter's Run : Survival Is The Only Law

Pubbl/distr/stampa

HarperCollins UK

ISBN

0-00-726408-9

Disciplina

813/.54

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Musica

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

A new benchmark in modern SF. A sharp, clever, funny morality tale that answers the biggest question of all: what makes us human?A fight in an alley behind a bar: a visiting European is knifed by local thug Ramon Espejo and all hell breaks loose.The dead man was a diplomat on an important mission to São Paulo, and next day Ramon is on the run heading north in his van toward land that no one has ever explored, or even thought of exploring, land so far only glimpsed from orbit during the first colony surveys.There are women still alive on São Paulo who can recall the initial descent onto an untouched world. All the cities of the south have bloomed since then, like mould on a Petri dish.Ramon was among the second wave of colonists. He's gone from being nothing in the hills of Mexico to being nothing on this strange alien world. His only friend Griego tells Ramon God meant him to be poor, or he wouldn't have made him so mean. Ramon's rage has never deserted him. It was there in the alley behind the bar, but he can't actually remember why he killed the European.Leaving all the hell and shit and sorrow of Diegotown behind, Ramon's plan is to look for minerals in the unmapped lands while the heat dies down. He's made a bare living prospecting so far, expecting each trip to be the big one that'll make him rich, and this one is no different. The first samples he



blows out of the mountain, however, bring down the mountain upon him as well and a whole undiscovered alien race. Ramon is tethered to one of them and set to 'perform his function'. Whatever that means, he'll find out. And he'll remember why he killed the European.