1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458910603321

Autore

Wortham Simon

Titolo

Derrida : writing events / Simon Morgan Wortham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; New York, : Continuum, 2008

ISBN

1-4725-4635-0

1-282-87075-0

9786612870750

1-4411-0012-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (152 p.)

Collana

Continuum studies in Continental philosophy

Continuum studies in philosophy

Disciplina

194

Soggetti

Events (Philosophy)

Written communication

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 (pages [127]-142) and index

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : writing the event, or, citations from an archive of the future -- The archive and the anthological -- Writing obsession -- Writing friendship : Agamben and Derrida -- Anonymity writing pedagogy : Beckett, Descartes, Derrida -- Raelity -- Can dreaming be 'political'? : some questions on the politics of cultural studies : an interview with Paul Bowman -- End note : saying the event

Introduction: Writing the Event, or Citations from an Archive of the Future -- 1. The Archive and the Anthological -- 2. Writing Obsession -- 3. Writing Friendship: Agamben and Derrida -- 4. Anonymity Writing Pedagogy: Beckett, Descartes, Derrida -- 5. Reality -- 6. Can Dreaming Be 'Political'?: Some Questions on the 'Politics' of Cultural Studies -- Endnote: Saying the Event -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Derrida wrote a vast number of texts for particular events across the world, as well as a series of works that portray him as a voyager. As an Algerian émigré, a postcolonial outsider, and an idiomatic writer who felt tied to a language that was not his own, and as a figure obsessed by the singularity of the literary or philosophical event, Derrida emerges as one whose thought always arrives on occasion. But how are we to understand the event in Derrida? Is there a risk that such stories



of Derrida's work tend to misunderstand the essential unpredictability at work in the conditions of his thought? And how are we to reconcile the importance in Derrida of the unknowable event, the pull of the singular, with deconstruction's critical and philosophical rigour and its claims to rethink more systematically the ethico-political field. This book argues that this negotiation in fact allows deconstruction to reformulate the very questions that we associate with ethical and political responsibility and shows this to be the central interest in Derrida's work

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786573303321

Autore

Payne Thomas Edward <1951->

Titolo

A typological grammar of Panare, a Cariban language of Venezuela [[electronic resource] /] / by Thomas E. Payne, Doris L. Payne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2013

ISBN

1-283-85516-X

90-04-24219-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (485 p.)

Collana

Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas ; ; 5

Altri autori (Persone)

PayneDoris L. <1952->

Disciplina

498.425

498/.425

Soggetti

Panare language - Grammar

Panare language - Syntax

Typology (Linguistics)

Venezuela Languages

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- The Language and Its Speakers -- Phonology and Morphophonology -- Nouns and Nominals -- Nominal Derivation and “Possessive” Denominalization -- Modification -- The Morphosyntax of the Verb: Organizing Principles -- Verb Stem Derivation -- Past-Perfective Aspect Constructions -- Non-Pastperfective Aspect Constructions -- Minority Class Verbs -- Noun Phrase Structure -- Adpositional Phrases and Oblique Constituents -- Copula



Constructions -- Voice and Valence -- Knowing and Not Knowing: Epistemic and Negative Categories -- Commands and the Expression of Deontic Modality -- Questions and Contrastive Constructions -- Complementation -- Adverbial and medial clauses -- Relative and Modifying Clauses -- Two Short Panare Texts -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Panare, also known as E'ñapa Woromaipu, is a seriously endangered Cariban language spoken by about 3,500 people in Central Venezuela. A Typological Grammar of Panare by Thomas E. Payne and Doris L. Payne, is a full length linguistic grammar written from a modern functional and typological perspective. The many remarkable characteristics highlighted in the grammar include a 'split-inverse' person marking system, transitivity-sensitive aspect and person-marking verb morphology, object incorporation, relatively nonconfigurational NP structure, both verb-initial and object-initial constituent orders, a complex system of clause chaining, switch reference, and a rich system of evidential and epistemic marking.