1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784398203321

Autore

Seed Patricia

Titolo

American pentimento [[electronic resource] ] : the invention of Indians and the pursuit of riches / / Patricia Seed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2001

ISBN

0-8166-9261-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (314 p.)

Collana

Public worlds ; ; v. 7

Disciplina

970/.00497

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Land tenure

Indians - Colonization

Indians - Civil rights

Land tenure - Government policy - America - History

Right of property - America - History

Europe Colonies America Administration

America Colonization

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; List of Maps; Preface; American Pentimento: An Introduction; 1 Owning Land by Labor, Money, and Treaty; 2 Imagining a Waste Land;  or, Why Indians Vanish; 3 Gendering Native Americans: Hunters as Anglo-America's Partial Fiction; 4 Ownership of Mineral Riches and the Spanish Need for Labor; 5 Tribute and Social Humiliation: The Cost of Preserving Native Farmlands; 6 Cannibals: Iberia's Partial Truth; 7 Sustaining Political Identities: The Moral Boundary between Natives and Colonizers; 8 Indians in Portuguese America; 9 Fast Forward: The Impact of Independence on Colonial Structures

10 Continuities: Colonial Language and Images TodayConclusion. No Perfect World: Contemporary Aboriginal Communities' Human and Resource Rights; Appendix: On the Names of Some North American Aboriginal Peoples; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

An illuminating examination of colonization's ongoing cultural legacy. Patricia Seed examines how European countries, primarily England, Spain, and Portugal, differed in their colonization of the Americas, with the English appropriating land, while the Spanish and Portuguese



attempted to eliminate ""barbarous"" religious behavior and used indigenous labor to take mineral resources. Seed also demonstrates how these antiquated cultural and legal vocabularies are embedded in our languages, popular cultures, and legal systems, and how they are responsible for current representations and treatment

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910484492303321

Titolo

The Mathematics of Language : 10th and 11th Biennial Conference, MOL 10, Los Angeles, CA, USA, July 28-30, 2007 and MOL 11, Bielefeld, Germany, August 20-21, 2009, Revised Selected Papers / / edited by Christian Ebert, Gerhard Jäger, Jens Michaelis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2010

ISBN

3-642-14322-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2010.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VIII, 297 p. 55 illus.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, , 2945-9141 ; ; 6149

Altri autori (Persone)

EbertChristian

JagerGerhard

MichaelisJens

Disciplina

410.1/51

Soggetti

Compilers (Computer programs)

Computer programming

Computer science

Machine theory

Computer science - Mathematics

Discrete mathematics

Compilers and Interpreters

Programming Techniques

Theory of Computation

Formal Languages and Automata Theory

Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation

Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science

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

Dependency Structures Derived from Minimalist Grammars -- Deforesting Logical Form -- On the Probability Distribution of Typological Frequencies -- A Polynomial Time Algorithm for Parsing with the Bounded Order Lambek Calculus -- LC Graphs for the Lambek Calculus with Product -- Proof-Theoretic Semantics for a Natural Language Fragment -- Some Interdefinability Results for Syntactic Constraint Classes -- Sortal Equivalence of Bare Grammars -- Deriving Syntactic Properties of Arguments and Adjuncts from Neo-Davidsonian Semantics -- On Monadic Second-Order Theories of Multidominance Structures -- The Equivalence of Tree Adjoining Grammars and Monadic Linear Context-Free Tree Grammars -- A Formal Foundation for A and A-bar Movement -- Without Remnant Movement, MGs Are Context-Free -- The Algebra of Lexical Semantics -- Phonological Interpretation into Preordered Algebras -- Relational Semantics for the Lambek-Grishin Calculus -- Intersecting Adjectives in Syllogistic Logic -- Creation Myths of GenerativeGrammar and the Mathematics of Syntactic Structures -- On Languages Piecewise Testable in the Strict Sense -- A Note on the Complexity of Abstract Categorial Grammars -- Almost All Complex Quantifiers Are Simple -- Constituent Structure Sets I.

Sommario/riassunto

Contains a selection of papers presented at the 10th and 11th Meeting of the Association for Mathematics of Language, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA in July 2007 and in Bielefeld, Germany, in August 2009. This title reflects a range of theoretical topics relating to language and computation.