1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787705103321

Autore

Yiu Carine Yuk-man <1973->

Titolo

The typology of motion events : an empirical study of Chinese dialects / / Carine Yuk-man Yiu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

3-11-034176-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (426 p.)

Collana

Empirical approaches to language typology, , 0933-761X ; ; volume 53

Disciplina

495.17

Soggetti

Direction in language

Chinese language - Dialects

Chinese language - Verb

Typology (Linguistics)

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

Directional verbs in modern Cantonese. A typological perspective -- Directional verbs in modern Chinese dialects. A synchronic perspective -- Directional verbs in early Chinese dialects. A diachronic perspective -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This comprehensive study concentrates particularly on the use of a closed set of motion verbs in five of the major dialects, including Mandarin, Wú, Hakka, M?n and Cantonese. The author shows that these dialects form a continuum with some exhibiting more characteristics of a verb-framed language than the others. The phenomenon reflects the various stages of typological transformation and grammaticalization that the dialects have undergone.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786713603321

Autore

Hurewitz Daniel

Titolo

Bohemian Los Angeles and the making of modern politics [[electronic resource] /] / Daniel Hurewitz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007

ISBN

1-282-36055-8

9786612360558

0-520-94169-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (380 p.)

Disciplina

979.4/94053

Soggetti

Cultural pluralism - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century

Artists - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century

Political activists - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century

Community life - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century

Edendale (Los Angeles, Calif.) Politics and government 20th century

Edendale (Los Angeles, Calif.) Intellectual life 20th century

Edendale (Los Angeles, Calif.) Social conditions 20th century

Los Angeles (Calif.) Politics and government 20th century

Los Angeles (Calif.) Intellectual life 20th century

Los Angeles (Calif.) Social conditions 20th century

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. 283-341) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction: Traversing the Hills of Edendale -- Prologue: A World Left Behind -- 1. "A Most Lascivious Picture of Impatient Desire" -- 2. Together against the World: Self, Community, and Expression among the Artists of Edendale -- 3. 1930's Containment: Identity by State Dictate -- 4. Left of Edendale: The Deep Politics of Communist Community -- 5. The United Nations in a City: Racial Ideas in Edendale, on the Left, and in Wartime Los Angeles -- 6. Getting Some Identity: Mattachine and the Politics of Sexual Identity Construction -- Conclusion: The Struggle of Identity Politics -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Bohemian Los Angeles brings to life a vibrant and all-but forgotten



milieu of artists, leftists, and gay men and women whose story played out over the first half of the twentieth century and continues to shape the entire American landscape. It is the story of a hidden corner of Los Angeles, where the personal first became the political, where the nation's first enduring gay rights movement emerged, and where the broad spectrum of what we now think of as identity politics was born. Portraying life over a period of more than forty years in the hilly enclave of Edendale, near downtown Los Angeles, Daniel Hurewitz considers the work of painters and printmakers, looks inside the Communist Party's intimate cultural scene, and examines the social world of gay men. In this vividly written narrative, he discovers why and how these communities, inspiring both one another and the city as a whole, transformed American notions of political identity with their ideas about self-expression, political engagement, and race relations. Bohemian Los Angeles, incorporating fascinating oral histories, personal letters, police records, and rare photographs, shifts our focus from gay and bohemian New York to the west coast with significant implications for twentieth-century U.S. history and politics.