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UNINA9910780373103321 |
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Roberts Brian <1957-> |
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American alchemy [[electronic resource] ] : the California Gold Rush and middle-class culture / / Brian Roberts |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2000 |
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979-88-908699-8-2 |
0-8078-6093-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (356 p.) |
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Cultural studies of the United States |
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Frontier and pioneer life - California |
Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.) |
Pioneers - California - History - 19th century |
Pioneers - Northeastern States - History - 19th century |
Middle class - California - History - 19th century |
Middle class - Northeastern States - History - 19th century |
California Gold discoveries Social aspects |
California Social conditions |
Northeastern States Social conditions 19th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. California Gold and Filthy Lucre; 2. Gold Fever as a Cure; 3. Husbands and Wives; 4. Numberless Highways to Fairy Grottos; 5. A Great and Perverse Paradise; Section of Illustrations; 6. California Is a Humbug; 7. Widows and Helpmates; 8. A Wild, Free, Disorderly, Grotesque Society; 9. The Prude Fails; 10. The End of the Flush Times; Conclusion; Notes; Index; |
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California during the gold rush was a place of disputed claims, shoot-outs, gambling halls, and prostitution; a place populated by a rough and rebellious figure; a place that seems utterly unconnected to middle-class culture. This work challenges this stereotypical portrait. |
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UNINA9910792118303321 |
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The expression of negation [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Laurence R. Horn |
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Berlin ; ; New York, N.Y., : Mouton de Gruyter, c2010 |
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1-282-67305-X |
9786612673054 |
3-11-021930-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (349 p.) |
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The expression of cognitive categories ; ; 4 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Grammar, Comparative and general - Negatives |
Negation (Logic) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Typology of negation -- The Acquisition of Negation -- On the diachrony of negation -- Multiple negation in English and other languages -- Quantifier-negation interaction in English: A corpus linguistic study of all...not constructions -- Negative and positive polarity items: An investigation of the interplay of lexical meaning and global conditions on expression -- Negation as a metaphor-inducing operator -- Negation in Classical Japanese -- Negation and polarity in the new millennium: A bibliography -- Backmatter |
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Negation is a sine qua non of every human language but is absent from otherwise complex systems of animal communication. In many ways, it is negation that makes us human, imbuing us with the capacity to deny, to contradict, to misrepresent, to lie, and to convey irony. The apparent simplicity of logical negation as a one-place operator that toggles truth and falsity belies the intricate complexity of the expression of negation in natural language. Not only do we find negative adverbs, verbs, copulas, quantifiers, and affixes, but the interaction of negation with other operators (including multiple iterations of negation itself) can be exceedingly complex to describe, extending (as first detailed by Otto Jespersen) to negative concord, |
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negative incorporation, and the widespread occurrence of negative polarity items whose distribution is subject to principles of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. The chapters in this book survey the patterning of negative utterances in natural languages, spanning such foundational issues as how negative sentences are realized cross-linguistically and how that realization tends to change over time, how negation is acquired by children, how it is processed by adults, and how its expression changes over time. Specific chapters offer focused empirical studies of negative polarity, pleonastic negation, and negative/quantifier scope interaction, as well as detailed examinations of the form and function of sentential negation in modern Romance languages and Classical Japanese. |
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