1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451129003321

Autore

McGregor William

Titolo

The languages of the Kimberley, Western Australia [[electronic resource] /] / William B. McGregor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004

ISBN

1-134-39603-1

1-280-07879-0

0-203-43471-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (398 p.)

Classificazione

18.95

Disciplina

427/.99414

Soggetti

Australian languages - Australia - Kimberley (W.A.) - Grammar

Electronic books.

Kimberley (W.A.) Languages Grammar

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 338-357) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and conventions; Introduction; Survey of Kimberley languages; Language in Kimberley Aboriginal societies; Phonetics and phonology; Fundamental concepts of grammar; Pronouns and determiners; Nominals and noun phrases; Verbs and verbal constructions; Vocabulary and meaning; Clauses and sentences; Text and discourse; Grammar in language use; Conclusion; Notes; Languages and sources; Bibliography; Index of languages and language families; Index of names; Index of subjects;

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides an insightful and highly readable account both of the social setting in which the languages are spoken and of their main structural features.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910777513303321

Autore

Žižek Slavoj

Titolo

The parallax view / / Slavoj Žižek

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2006

ISBN

0-262-26518-4

1-282-09774-1

9786612097744

0-262-28664-5

1-4237-8722-6

Descrizione fisica

ix, 433 p

Collana

Short circuits

Disciplina

199/.4973

Soggetti

Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-429) and index.

Nota di contenuto

; Introduction : Dialectical materialism at the gates. ; The stellar parallax : the traps of ontological difference : The subject, this "inwardly circumcised Jew" -- Building blocks for a materialist theology. ; Interlude 1 : Kate's choice, or, the materialism of Henry James. ; The solar parallax : the unbearable lightness of being no one : The unbearable heaviness of being divine shit. ; Interlude 2 : Objet petit a in social links, or, the impasse of anti-anti-semitism. ; The lunar parallax : toward a politics of subtraction : From surplus-value to surplus-power -- The obscene knot of ideology, and how to untie it.

Sommario/riassunto

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