1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462369203321

Autore

Payne Thomas Edward <1951->

Titolo

A typological hrammar 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)

Electronic books.

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786500203321

Autore

Sheffer Jolie A

Titolo

The romance of race [[electronic resource] ] : incest, miscegenation, and multiculturalism in the United States, 1880-1930 / / Jolie A. Sheffer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2013

ISBN

1-283-80587-1

0-8135-5464-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Collana

American literatures initiative

Classificazione

HT 1691

Disciplina

810.9/920693

Soggetti

American literature - Minority authors - History and criticism

American literature - Women authors - History and criticism

Ethnic groups in literature

Multiculturalism in literature

Identity (Psychology) in literature

Minorities - United States - Intellectual life

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

Mulattos, mysticism, and marriage: African American identity and psychic integration -- Half-caste family romances: divergent paths of Asian American identity -- The Mexican Mestizo/a in the Mexican American imaginary -- Half-breeds and homesteaders: Native/American alliances in the West -- Blood and blankets: Americanizing European immigrants through cultural miscegenation and textile reproduction.

Sommario/riassunto

In the United States miscegenation is not merely a subject of literature and popular culture. It is in many ways the foundation of contemporary



imaginary community. The Romance of Race examines the role of minority women writers and reformers in the creation of our modern American multiculturalism. The national identity of the United States was transformed between 1880 and 1930 due to mass immigration, imperial expansion, the rise of Jim Crow, and the beginning of the suffrage movement. A generation of women writers and reformers-particularly women of color-contributed to these debates by imagining new national narratives that put minorities at the center of American identity. Jane Addams, Pauline Hopkins, Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton), María Cristina Mena, and Mourning Dove (Christine Quintasket) embraced the images of the United States-and increasingly the world-as an interracial nuclear family. They also reframed public debates through narratives depicting interracial encounters as longstanding, unacknowledged liaisons between white men and racialized women that produced an incestuous, mixed-race nation. By mobilizing the sexual taboos of incest and miscegenation, these women writers created political allegories of kinship and community. Through their criticisms of the nation's history of exploitation and colonization, they also imagined a more inclusive future. As Jolie A. Sheffer identifies the contemporary template for American multiculturalism in the works of turn-of-the century minority writers, she uncovers a much more radical history than has previously been considered.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910828068503321

Autore

Barker, Lady (Mary Anne), <1831-1911, >

Titolo

Une femme du monde au pays des Zoulous : lettres de lady Barker / / Lady Barker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified] : , : Ligaran, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

2-335-02900-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Disciplina

916.84

Soggetti

Zulu (African people)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Couverture; Page de Copyright; Page de titre; Avant-Propos; LETTRE PREMIÈRE - Arrivée au Cap - Les vins de Constance - Visite aux celliers de Cloete-Constancia; LETTRE II - Le long de la côte - Port Élisabeth - Est-Londres - La barre du Buffalo - Baie d'Algoa; LETTRE III - La belle terre du Natal - Débarquement à Durban - Arrivée à Maritzbourg et au cottage; LETTRE IV - L'habitation de lady Barker - Les domestiques cafres - Jack le Zoulou - Les roses du Natal

singulière manière de guérir un mal de tête - Les Zoulous - Leurs sorcières - Leur roi ChacaLETTRE IX - Excursion à la station d'Edendale - Zèle clos missionnaires - Le culte, les écoles - Intelligence des enfants cafres - L'évêque Schreuder - Son audience à la cour de Cettiwayo, roi des Zoulous; LETTRE X - Un commando chez les Boers - Serpent occis dans la chambre de bébé - Adresse et courage de Jack - Visite de Maylcali, princesse des Cafres

LETTRE XI - Une noce de Cafres civilisés - Visite au kraal de Mazimbulu - Madame Mazimbulu - La maison en zinc - Histoire amusante d'un petit bœuf noirLETTRE XII - Pénible sécheresse - Les réguliers du fort Napler - Le camp des volontaires de Durban; LETTRE XIII - Récits de chasse - La chasse au lion - Visite intéressée; LETTRE XIV - La forêt vierge - Lutte des Cafres contre les babouins - Retour périlleux

Sommario/riassunto

Extrait : ""Après vingt-trois jours passés à bord du Château d'Édimbourg, entre le ciel et l'eau, nous abordons enfin le quai de la ville du cap, par un brouillard qui semble emprunté à l'Écosse...""