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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784688503321

Titolo

State making in Asia [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Richard Boyd and Tak-Wing Ngo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2006

ISBN

1-280-37712-7

9786610377121

1-134-28123-4

0-203-33898-7

0-203-56762-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (203 p.)

Collana

Politics in Asia series

Altri autori (Persone)

BoydRichard

NgoTak-Wing <1962->

Disciplina

321/.0095

Soggetti

State, The

Asia Politics and government

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. [182]-197) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Reconnecting the state to the dynamics of its making / Richard Boyd and Tak-Wing Ngo -- Japanese state making in global context / Mark Ravina -- The making of state-bureaucracy relations in Japan / Richard Boyd -- Citizen, state and nation in China / R. Bin Wong -- Sovereignty, survival, and the transformation of the Taiwan state / Jenn-Hwan Wang -- Constructing the state in the Tibetan diaspora / Ann Frechette -- Nation, ethnicity, and contending discourse in the Malaysian state / Shamsul A. B. and Sity Daud -- Some states of Asia compared from afar / Laurence Whitehead.

Sommario/riassunto

Including contributions from an international team of leading experts, this volume examines state making from a uniquely Asian perspective and reveals some of the misunderstandings that arise when states and state making are judged solely on the basis of Western history. The contributors argue that if we are to understand states in Asia then we must first recognize the particular combination of institution and ideologies embedded in Asian state making and their distinctiveness from the Western experience.Presenting new empirical and conceptual



material based on original resear

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796577403321

Titolo

Acquisition of romance languages : old acquisition challenges and new explanations from a generative perspective / / edited by Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, Maria Juan-Garau, Pilar Larrañaga

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, [Massachusetts] ; ; Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-5015-0038-4

1-61451-357-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Collana

Studies on Language Acquisition, , 1861-4248 ; ; Volume 52

Classificazione

IB 1103

Disciplina

440

Soggetti

Romance languages

Romance languages - Acquisition

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 at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Contributors -- Introduction. The acquisition of Romance languages from a generative perspective: New challenges and approaches -- 1. Superset and subset grammars in second language acquisition: The role of sonority in the representation of /s/+consonant clusters -- 2. Dual Morphology in the mental lexicon: Experimental evidence from the acquisition and processing of Greek and Portuguese -- 3. Microparametric variation and the acquisition of quantitative de in French -- 4. Semantic features and L1 transfer in the L2 learning of differential object marking: The view from Romanian and Persian -- 5. Elicited production of who-questions by school-aged Italian-speaking children -- 6. Mood interpretation in Spanish: towards an encompassing view of L1 and L2 interface variability -- 7. How do German speakers acquire the Tense-Aspect-System in Spanish as a Second Language? An empirical study -- 8. The non-native acquisition of Spanish (un)interpretable features by Dutch



L1 learners -- 9. The elicited oral production of Italian restrictive relative clauses and cleft sentences in typically developing children and children with developmental dyslexia -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume presents a collection of new articles that investigate the acquisition of Romance languages across different acquisition contexts as well as refine and propose new theoretical constructs such as complexity of linguistic features as a relevant factor forming children’s, adults’, and bilinguals’ acquisition of syntactical, morphological, and phonological structures.