1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910480734703321

Autore

Butt John

Titolo

A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish [[electronic resource] /] / by John Butt, Carmen Benjamin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Springer US : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1994

ISBN

1-4615-8368-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 1994.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIV, 520 p.)

Disciplina

440

Soggetti

Romance languages

Medicine

Romance Languages

Biomedicine, general

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

1 Gender of nouns -- 2 Plural of nouns -- 3 Articles -- 4 Adjectives -- 5 Comparison of adjectives and adverbs -- 6 Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns -- 7 Neuter article and pronouns -- 8 Possessive adjectives and pronouns -- 9 Miscellaneous adjectives and pronouns -- 10 Numerals -- 11 Personal pronouns -- 12 Le/les and lo/la/los/las -- 13 Forms of verbs -- 14 Use of indicative (non-continuous) verb forms -- 15 Continuous forms of the verb -- 16 The subjunctive -- 17 The imperative -- 18 The infinitive -- 19 Participles -- 20 The gerund -- 21 Modal auxiliary verbs -- 22 Personal a -- 23 Negation -- 24 Interrogation and exclamation -- 25 Conditional sentences -- 26 Pronominal verbs -- 27 Verbs of becoming -- 28 Passive and impersonal sentences -- 29 Ser and estar -- 30 Existential sentences(’there is/are’, etc.) -- 31 Adverbs -- 32 Expressions of time -- 33 Conjunctions -- 34 Prepositions -- 35 Relative clauses and pronouns -- 36 Nominalizers and cleft sentences -- 37 Word order -- 38 Diminutive, augmentative and pejorative suffixes -- 39 Spelling, accent rules, punctuation and word division -- Bibliography and sources -- Index of English words -- Index of Spanish words and grammatical points.

Sommario/riassunto

(abridged and revised) This reference grammar offers intermediate and



advanced students a reason­ ably comprehensive guide to the morphology and syntax of educated speech and plain prose in Spain and Latin America at the end of the twentieth century. Spanish is the main, usually the sole official language of twenty-one countries,} and it is set fair to overtake English by the year 2000 in numbers 2 of native speakers. This vast geographical and political diversity ensures that Spanish is a good deal less unified than French, German or even English, the latter more or less internationally standardized according to either American or British norms. Until the 1960s, the criteria of internationally correct Spanish were dictated by the Real Academia Espanola, but the prestige of this institution has now sunk so low that its most solemn decrees are hardly taken seriously - witness the fate of the spelling reforms listed in the Nuevas normas de prosodia y ortograjia, which were supposed to come into force in all Spanish-speaking countries in 1959 and, nearly forty years later, are still selectively ignored by publishers and literate persons everywhere. The fact is that in Spanish 'correctness' is nowadays decided, as it is in all living languages, by the consensus of native speakers; but consensus about linguistic usage is obviously difficult to achieve between more than twenty independent, widely scattered and sometimes mutually hostile countries. Peninsular Spanish is itself in flux.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451855803321

Autore

Coen Ross Allen

Titolo

Breaking ice for Arctic oil [[electronic resource] ] : the epic voyage of the SS Manhattan through the Northwest Passage / / Ross Coen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Fairbanks, : University of Alaska Press, 2012

ISBN

1-60223-170-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Disciplina

387.2/45

Soggetti

Petroleum - Transportation - Alaska

Tankers - United States - History

Oil fields - Alaska

Electronic books.

Northwest Passage

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. 195-204) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Strike at Prudhoe Bay State no. 1 -- No cream puff -- Submarines, blimps, trains, and ships -- "Bienvenu dans ces eaux. Welcome to Canadian waters" -- A floating laboratory -- In the passage -- Through the passage -- What did the Manhattan prove? -- Roundtrip -- Epilogue.

Sommario/riassunto

In 1969, an icebreaking tanker, the SS Manhattan, was  commissioned by Humble Oil to transit the Northwest Passage in order to  test the logistical and economic feasibility of an all-marine  transportation system for Alaska North Slope crude oil. Proposed as an  alternative to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, the Manhattan made two  voyages to the North American Arctic and collected volumes of scientific  data on ice conditions and the behavior of ships in ice. Although the Manhattan successfully  navigated the Northwest Passage-closing a five-hundred-year chapter of  Arctic exploration by becoming



3.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991004089749707536

Autore

Nazioni Unite

Titolo

CERD : la Convenzione contro il razzismo : la Convenzione delle Nazioni Unite per la eliminazione di tutte le forme di discriminazione razziale

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma : Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, stampa 2002

Descrizione fisica

198 p. ; 23 cm.

Collana

I diritti umani delle donne

Disciplina

341.481

Soggetti

Discriminazioni razziali - Convenzioni internazionali

Razzismo - Convenzioni internazionali

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Sul front.: Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri, Commissione nazionale per la parità e le pari opportunità tra uomo e donna, Dipartimento per l'informazione e l'editoria.



4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910524681703321

Autore

Lovejoy Arthur O (Arthur Oncken), <1873-1962, >

Titolo

Essays in the History of Ideas / by Arthur O. Lovejoy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2019

©2019

ISBN

0-8018-0392-6

1-4214-3237-4

Edizione

[Open access edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 PDF (unpaged).)

Collana

Hopkins open publishing encore editions

Soggetti

Literature

Philosophy

Literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Published for the History of Ideas Club of the Johns Hopkins University"--Title page verso.

Originally published: New York : George Braziller, Inc., 1955.

Nota di bibliografia

"Bibliography of the published writings of Arthur O. Lovejoy, 1898-1948."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The historiography of ideas -- The supposed primitivism of Rousseau's Discourse on inequality -- Monboddo and Rousseau -- "Pride" in eighteenth century thought -- "Nature" as aesthetic norm -- The parallel of deism and classicism -- The Chinese origin of a romanticism -- The first Gothic revival and the return to nature -- Herder and the Enlightenment philosophy of history -- The meaning of "romantic" in early German romanticism -- Schiller and the genesis of German romanticism -- On the discrimination of romanticisms -- Coleridge and Kant's two worlds -- Milton and the paradox of the fortunate fall -- The communism of St. Ambrose -- "Nature" as norm in Tertullian.

Sommario/riassunto

In the first essay of this collection, Lovejoy reflects on the nature, methods, and difficulties of the historiography of ideas. He maps out recurring phenomena in the history of ideas, which the essays illustrate. One phenomenon is the presence and influence of the same



presuppositions or other operative "ideas" in very diverse provinces of thought and in different periods. Another is the role of semantic transitions and confusions, of shifts and of ambiguities in the meanings of terms, in the history of thought and taste. A third phenomenon is the internal tensions or waverings in the mind of almost every individual writer--sometimes discernible even in a single writing or on a single page--arising from conflicting ideas or incongruous propensities of feeling or taste to which the writer is susceptible. These essays do not contribute to metaphysical and epistemological questions; they are primarily historical.