1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458996703321

Autore

Ouali Hamid

Titolo

Agreement, pronominal clitics and negation in Tamazight Berber [[electronic resource] ] : a unified analysis / / Hamid Ouali

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2010

ISBN

1-283-00434-8

9786613004345

1-4411-1936-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 p.)

Collana

Continuum studies in theoretical linguistics

Disciplina

493/.335

Soggetti

Berbers - Morocco

Tamazight language - Grammar

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Symbols and Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Background on the Berber Language; Chapter 3 Agreement: From GB to Minimalism; Chapter 4 Tamazight Verb Morphology and Clause Structure; Chapter 5 Subject-Verb Agreement and Agreement Suppression Effects; Chapter 6 Object Pronominal Clitics; Chapter 7 Clitic Doubling; Chapter 8 Negative Concord; Chapter 9 Agreement Suppression Effects and Unification via Agree; Chapter 10 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents a study of various important aspects of Tamazight Berber syntax within the generative tradition.  Work on Berber linguistics from a generative perspective remains in many ways uncharted territory.  There has been hardly any published research on this language and its different dialects, especially in English -- this book fills some of these gaps and lays down the foundations for further research. Ouali looks at three seemingly disparate ranges of syntactic phenomena, namely Subject-verb agreement, Clitic-doubling and Negative Concord.  These phenomena have received different



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459606603321

Autore

Huberman Ariana

Titolo

Gauchos and foreigners [[electronic resource] ] : glossing culture and identity in the Argentine countryside / / Ariana Huberman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, MD, : Lexington Books, c2011

ISBN

1-282-99178-7

9786612991783

0-7391-4906-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (157 p.)

Disciplina

860.9/35882

Soggetti

Argentine literature - History and criticism

Gauchos in literature

National characteristics, Argentine, in literature

Gauchos - Argentina - History

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover ; Halftitle ; Title ; Copyright ; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Gaucho in Argentine History,National Language, and Landscape ; Chapter 2: W. H. Hudson: A Naturalist'sRendition of the Gauchoand His Habitat ; Chapter 3: Benito Lynch: A Realistic Portraitof the Gaucho and the Pampas ; Chapter 4: Alberto Gerchunoff:An Uncomfortable Canon ; Conclusion; Works Cited; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

In Ariana Huberman's manuscript titled Gauchos and Foreigners: Glossing Culture and Identity in the Argentine Countryside, she discusses the relationship between the gaucho figure and the 'foreigner' in Argentine rural literature from the turn of the nineteenth-century to the 1920's in order to explore the complexities of mutual cultural transformation in a literary genre and a region that thrives in binaries.