1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457758403321

Titolo

Complex sentence constructions in Australian languages [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Peter Austin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 1988

ISBN

1-283-31375-8

9786613313751

90-272-7861-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Collana

Typological studies in language, , 0167-7373 ; ; v. 15

Altri autori (Persone)

AustinPeter

Disciplina

499/.15

Soggetti

Australian languages - Sentences

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on a Workshop on Complex Sentence Constructions in Australian Languages held in conjunction with the Australian Linguistic Society Annual Conference at La Trobe University in 1983.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

COMPLEX SENTENCE CONSTRUCTIONS IN AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGES; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; REFERENCES; FIGURE AND GROUND IN REMBARRNGA COMPLEX SENTENCES; MOOD AND SUBORDINATION IN KUNIYANTI; PARTICIPLE SENTENCES IN WAKIMAN; COMPLEXSENTENCESIN MARTUTHUNIRA; SWITCH-REFERENCE IN MPARNTWE ARRERNTE(ARANDA):  FORM,  FUNCTION, AND PROBLEMS OF IDENTITY; VERB SERIALISATION AND THE CIRCUMSTANTIAL CONSTRUCTION IN YANKUNYTJATJARA; SOME FEATURES OF MANJILJARRA NOMINALISED RELATIVE CLAUSES; CASE AND COMPLEMENTISER SUFFIXES IN WARLPIRI

ODD TOPIC MARKING IN KAYARDILDAFFIXESOF MOTION AND DIRECTION IN ADNYAMATHANHA; INDEXOF LANGUAGES; INDEXOF NAMES

Sommario/riassunto

Over the past fifteen years, descriptions of Australian Aboriginal languages have provided important data for the typological study of morpho-syntactic phenomena. The present volume presents descriptions of complex sentence phenomena in ten Australian languages and provides important new material in this area of current concern in linguistics. Complex sentences are described either from a



syntactic or from a semantic (discourse-functional) point of view. The papers draw on data from widely distributed and, in some instances, previously undescribed languages. Among others descriptions of the (s

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780556403321

Autore

Doran Charles F.

Titolo

Why Canadian unity matters and why Americans care : democratic pluralism at risk / / Charles F. Doran

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2001

©2001

ISBN

1-282-03396-4

9786612033964

1-4426-8347-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (317 p.)

Disciplina

971.4/04

Soggetti

Secession - Québec (Province)

Cultural pluralism - Canada

Public opinion - United States

Livres numeriques.

History

e-books.

Electronic books.

Québec (Province) History Autonomy and independence movements

Canada Foreign public opinion, American

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Challenges to Democratic Pluralism. Democratic Pluralism: What It Is and Why It Is Necessary. Cultural Identity and Politics. The Social-Psychology of Divisive Nationalism. The Challenge to Liberal Democracy -- 2. A U.S. Perspective on Canadian Unity. What Underlies U.S. Preferences? The Economic Claim to Wholeness. Defence of the North



American Continent: The Security Claim. Why Canada Is Important: City on the Hill, Interdependence, and Cohesion -- 3. Will Quebec Secede? How Three Social-Psychological Processes Fan Quebec Nationalism. Factors Contributing to Separation. Quebec Nationalism: Ethnic or Civic? Sources of Resistance to Disunity. Background Trends Affecting Quebec Nationalism. Unaccounted-for Trends and Surprises. No Bottom Line, No Willingness to Budge -- 4. Could English Canada Unravel? Geographical Isolation of the Atlantic Provinces. 'Transfer Payments' Would End. Effervescence of 'Western Alienation'. The 'Ontario Problem'. The North American Crucible -- 5. Is Separatism Home-Grown or the Result of Contagion? State Formation as Historically Determined Evolution. The Influence of the International System on Secession. Building States by Breaking States: Divisive Nationalism. Can Democratic Pluralism Survive? Divisive Nationalism and the Future. Centralization, Globalization, and North America -- 6. Is Small Size a Stimulus or Obstacle to Separatism? Economic Costs of Separation to Quebec. The Structure of World Order and Trade. Relationship between the Size of a Polity and Its Economic Growth. Empirical Analysis of the Size/Growth Threshold. Causal Assumptions Underlying Costs of Secession. Resolving the Paradigmatic Controversy. Assessing the Policy Implications -- 7. What Kind of Canada in the Twenty-First Century? Aboriginal Peoples, Cultural Survival, and Democratic Pluralism. Responding to Quebec If Secession Fails. Is a Unilateral Declaration of Independence Possible? Probing Plan B. Responding to the ROC If Quebec Secedes. Responding to Asymmetrical Federalism. Responding to a Scenario of Deep Decentralization. Summing Up the Options and the Consequences -- 8. Self-Determination and Democratic Pluralism. The Threat to Democratic Pluralism. Divisive Nationalism. Bogus Science of Primordial Causes for Ethnic Separatism. The Communitarian Challenge to Democratic Pluralism. Self-Determination: The Pluralist Addendum. Confronting the Challenge to Democratic Pluralism.

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing on a variety of perspective, Charles Doran examines why Canadian unity is important not only to the United States but also to other liberal democracies around the world. In addition, he looks at the wider context of Quebec nationalism and the nature of the historical era that has shaped and conditioned the secessionist impulse.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910829945003321

Autore

Foundation Novartis

Titolo

Drug resistance in epilepsy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Wiley, , 2003

©2003

ISBN

0-470-84635-6

9786610554881

1-280-55488-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 pages)

Collana

Novartis Foundation Symposia ; ; v.Vol. 243

Altri autori (Persone)

BockGregory

GoodeJamie

Disciplina

616.853061

Soggetti

Epilepsy - drug therapy

ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B - metabolism

Drug Resistance

Congress.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The object of this book is to gather together workers in the fields of epilepsy, those concerned with the basic science of resistance and the blood-brain barrier, and those with clinical experience of drug resistance in cancer, with a view to stimulating further work on drug resistance in epilepsy. Whilst resistance in cancer has been extensively studied, and trials of reversal of resistance have been undertaken, with some success, resistance in epilepsy has only just begun to be addressed.