1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456765303321

Autore

Anagnostopoulou Elena

Titolo

Materials on Left Dislocation [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam/Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1997

ISBN

1-283-23424-6

9786613234247

90-272-8236-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (357 p.)

Collana

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

Altri autori (Persone)

RiemsdijkHenk van

ZwartsFrans

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Generative grammar

Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax

Grammar

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; CONTENTS; LEFT DISLOCATION; Part I: Basic Texts; Left Dislocation in Dutch and Status of Copying Rules; On Left Dislocation; On the Source of Lefthand NPs in French; Left Dislocation, Connectedness and Reconstruction; 'Topic' Constructions in some European Languages and 'Connectedness'; Contrastive Dislocation in Dutch an Icelandic; Part II: Current Developments; Clitic Left Dislocation and Contrastive Left Dislocation; Dislocation, Resumption and Weakest Crossover; Clitic Left Dislocation and other Relatives; Left Dislocation and Split Topics in Bahant Dutch

Parasitic Operators in German Left-DislocationIndex

Sommario/riassunto

Materials on Left Dislocation consists of two parts. Part I contains a selection of the main texts on which our present understanding of the Left Dislocation construction is based. For various reasons most of these texts had never been published, or are published in obsolete places. These articles, by Van Riemsdijk & Zwarts, Rodman, Hirschbuehler, Vat, Cinque and Zaenen, contain the first arguments that pertain to the major questions about Left Dislocation (for example



whether movement or base-generation is involved), and they present the rationale for the now standard distinctions betw

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786530003321

Autore

Roller Heather

Titolo

Amazonian routes : Indigenous mobility and colonial communities in northern Brazil / / Heather F. Roller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8047-9212-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 342 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)

Disciplina

981/.1

Soggetti

Indians of South America - Amazon River Region - 18th century

Indians of South America - Brazil, North - History - 18th century

Migration, Internal - Amazon River Region - History - 18th century

Migration, Internal - Brazil, North - History - 18th century

Village communities - Amazon River Region - History - 18th century

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

From missions to towns : Amazonian settlements in an era of reform -- Forest collecting expeditions and the pursuit of opportunities in the sertão -- Searching for new people -- "The Indians of this town ebb and flow" : absentee movements within the colonial sphere -- Defining Indians and vagrants -- The struggle for autonomy in the early nineteenth century -- Conclusion : mobile and rooted.

Sommario/riassunto

This text reconstructs the world of eighteenth-century Amazonia to argue that indigenous mobility did not undermine settlement or community. In doing so, it revises longstanding views of native Amazonians as perpetual wanderers, lacking attachment to place and likely to flee at the slightest provocation.