1.

Record Nr.

UNISOBE600200017799

Autore

Burgos, Carmen de

Titolo

La que quiso ser Maja / Carmen de Burgos (Colombine) ; Illustraciones de Loygorri

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sevilla, : Editorial Renacimiento, 2000

Descrizione fisica

74 p. ; 17 cm

Collana

La Novela Pasional ; 23

Lingua di pubblicazione

Spagnolo

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458876703321

Autore

Moye J. Todd

Titolo

Freedom flyers : the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II / / J. Todd Moye [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2010

ISBN

0-19-974188-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 241 p. [8] p. of plates ) : ill. ;

Collana

Oxford oral history series

Disciplina

940.54/4973

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Aerial operations, American

World War, 1939-1945 - Regimental histories - United States

World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Europe

World War, 1939-1945 - Participation, African American

African American air pilots - History

World War, 1939-1945 - Aerial operations, American - United States

World War, 1939-1945 - Regimental histories - Europe

World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns

History - General

History & Archaeology

History

Electronic books

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. 191-231) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prologue: "This is where you ride" -- The use of Negro manpower in war -- The Black Eagles take flight -- The experiment -- Combat on several fronts -- The trials of the 477th -- Integrating the Air Force -- Epilogue: "Let's make it a holy crusade all around".

Sommario/riassunto

From the Publisher: As the country's first African American military pilots, the Tuskegee Airmen fought in World War II on two fronts: against the Axis powers in the skies over Europe and against Jim Crow racism and segregation at home. Although the pilots flew more than 15,000 sorties and destroyed more than 200 German aircraft, their most far-reaching achievement defies quantification: delivering a powerful blow to racial inequality and discrimination in American life. In this inspiring account of the Tuskegee Airmen, historian J. Todd Moye captures the challenges and triumphs of these brave pilots in their own words, drawing on more than 800 interviews recorded for the National Park Service's Tuskegee Airmen Oral History Project. Denied the right to fully participate in the U.S. war effort alongside whites at the beginning of World War II, African Americans--spurred on by black newspapers and civil rights organizations such as the NAACP--compelled the prestigious Army Air Corps to open its training programs to black pilots, despite the objections of its top generals. Thousands of young men came from every part of the country to Tuskegee, Alabama, in the heart of the segregated South, to enter the program, which expanded in 1943 to train multi-engine bomber pilots in addition to fighter pilots. By the end of the war, Tuskegee Airfield had become a small city populated by black mechanics, parachute packers, doctors, and nurses. Together, they helped prove that racial segregation of the fighting forces was so inefficient as to be counterproductive to the nation's defense. Freedom Flyers brings to life the legacy of a determined, visionary cadre of African American airmen who proved their capabilities and patriotism beyond question, transformed the armed forces-formerly the nation's most racially polarized institution-and jump-started the modern struggle for racial equality.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464248503321

Autore

Hegarty Michael <1959->

Titolo

A feature-based syntax of functional categories [[electronic resource] ] : the structure, acquisition, and specific impairment of functional systems / / by Michael Hegarty

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2005

ISBN

3-11-089540-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (364 p.)

Collana

Studies in generative grammar ; ; 79

Classificazione

ER 710

Disciplina

410/.1/8

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Grammatical categories

Functionalism (Linguistics)

Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax

English language - Grammar, Historical

Language acquisition

Language disorders

Electronic books.

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. [321]-340) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Preface / Hegarty, Michael -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. A feature-based derivation of functional heads -- Chapter 3. Germanic verb-second and expletive subjects -- Chapter 4. Aspects of clitic placement and clitic climbing -- Chapter 5. Tenseless clauses and coordination -- Chapter 6. The acquisition of functional features -- Chapter 7. The acquisition of adult functional categories -- Chapter 8. The representation of functional categories as a factor in Specific Language Impairment -- Chapter 9. Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- Index of names -- Index of subjects

Sommario/riassunto

This book develops ideas of Minimalist syntax to derive functional categories from the partially-ordered features expressed by functional elements, thereby dispensing with functional categories as primitives of the theory. It generalizes attempts to do this in the literature, while drawing significant empirical consequences from general constraints formulated to block overgeneration. The resulting theory of the



construction of functional categories is applied to various problems in syntactic analysis and comparative and historical syntax, including variation across Germanic languages in patterns of verb-second and in the occurrence of expletive subjects in existential constructions, verb positions in Old and Middle English, problems regarding the placement of clitic pronouns in Romance languages and Modern Greek, and some previously unexamined structures of reduced clause coordination in colloquial English. Facts from early stages of the acquisition of syntax are shown to follow from the mechanisms for the projection of functional features as functional categories, exercised before all of the features for a language, along with their ordering and feature co-occurrence restrictions, have been acquired. It is observed that child acquisition of functional elements exhibits successive developmental stages, each characterized by the number of clausal functional elements which can be represented together within a clause. This, and facts regarding the lag in development of functional categories by children with specific language impairment, are shown to be not entirely reducible to limitations in working memory or processing capacity, but to depend in part on the growth of representational resources for the projection of functional categories.