1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460221003321

Autore

Hanick Riley

Titolo

Three kinds of motion : Kerouac, Pollock, and the making of American highways / / Riley Hanick ; cover designed by Jonathan Graf ; interior layout by Kirkby Gann Tittle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Louisville, Kentucky : , : Sarabande Books, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-941411-05-3

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Disciplina

813.54

Soggetti

Art and literature - United States - History - 20th century

Interstate Highway System

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.

Nota di contenuto

""Three Kinds of Motion""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""The Author""

Sommario/riassunto

<div>Riley Hanick: Riley Hanick is an essayist, journalist, and translator. His work has received support from the Jentel and McKnight foundations and he has served as a writer-in-residence for the University of Iowa Museum of Art. He teaches at Murray State University.<BR><BR></div>



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910639975803321

Autore

Raper P. E.

Titolo

Voices past and present : a comparison of old Cape dialectal, Bushman and Khoikhoi words / / Peter E. Raper

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloemfontein, : UJ Press, 2020

ISBN

9781928424499

192842449X

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (489 p.)

Soggetti

Historical & comparative linguistics

Africa, Southern Languages Dialects Lexicology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The preservation of South Africa’s indigenous languages – the extinct Bushman and Khoikhoi languages in particular – is a pressing concern. Voices Past and Present serves as a comprehensive, scholarly and practical source for documenting and preserving some of them. The subcontinent of Africa has been inhabited by Bushman, Khoikhoi and Bantu-speaking peoples for thousands of years, and, for the past few centuries, also by European-speaking peoples. Contact between these peoples brought about changes in the different languages. As a result, modern languages are no longer identical to the original ones, many of which, especially in the case of the Bushman and Khoikhoi languages, have become extinct. Words used in ancient times and recorded long ago often bear no resemblance to their modern counterparts. In this book, Peter E. Raper provides a detailed investigation of the earliest recordings of words available. Words from Old Cape dialects are compared for correspondences in sound and meaning to words from 29 Bushman languages and dialects, as well as to words from Nama, Koranna, Griqua, !Xuhn, !Xoon, Khwe and N/uu. Voices Past and Present provides an extensive corpus of words that can be further utilised for the purpose of shedding light on the specific languages from which the recorded words (and names) were derived, on historical



distribution of the various groups, on the classification of the different languages and peoples, for determining relationships or otherwise between the different languages, potentially identifying components of place-names and ethnonyms from ancient and extinct languages, and elucidating other matters that have long vexed scholars who have complained about a lack of recorded data.