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UNINA9910158972003321 |
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Simón Melanie Bowden |
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La Americana : a memoir / / Melanie Bowden Simon |
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New York, New York : , : Skyhorse Publishing, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (137 pages) : illustrations |
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Man-woman relationships - Cuba |
Authors, American |
Electronic books. |
Cuba Description and travel |
Cuba Social life and customs |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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"La Americana is the story of Melanie Bowden Simon, who, at the age of twenty-five, left her job at Tina Brown's Talk magazine following the death of her mother and decided to take a vacation in Havana, Cuba, with a friend. Little did she know that she would meet and fall in love with a Cuban man named Luis and dive headlong into a culture defined by beauty, humor, and grace within the unnerving realities of communism. In this memoir, Simon details her fascination with Cuban culture as she grapples with the death of her mother. She also covers the struggle to get in and out of Cuba at a time when the country is labeled a pariah state. Yet over and over again, Simon manages to overcome international barriers and overcome language and cultural obstacles-all in the name of her love for Luis. This book makes a great read for those with an interest in Cuban history, a zest for romance, or a passion for travel. Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as |
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villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home"-- |
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UNINA9910842700503321 |
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Harward-Nalder Glenda |
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Yagara Dictionary and Salvage Grammar |
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Canberra : , : ANU Press, , 2024 |
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©2024 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (300 pages) |
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Collana |
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Asia-Pacific Linguistics Series |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Bandjalang language - Dialects |
Bandjalang language - Grammar |
Pama-Nyungan languages - Grammar |
Aboriginal Australians - Australia - Queensland - Languages |
Extinct languages - Australia - Queensland |
Yuggera language E23 |
Language - Vocabulary - Dictionaries and glossaries |
Language - Linguistics - Grammar and syntax |
Langues pama-nyungan - Grammaire |
Langues australiennes - Australie - Queensland |
Langues mortes - Australie - Queensland |
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Intro -- List of illustrations -- Figure 1.1: Yagara (in black font) and surrounding languages (in grey). -- Figure 1.2: Alternate female |
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generations have the same sections. -- Figure 1.3: Selected kinship relations in Yagara. -- Table 1.1: Yagara moieties and the totems of equivalent Gabi-Gabi and Jinibara moieties. -- Table 1.2: 'Straight' marriage moieties and sections. -- Table 1.3: Children's moieties and sections are based on those of their mothers. -- Table 1.4: The consonant inventory of Yagara. -- Table 1.5: The vowel inventory of Yagara. -- Table 1.6: List of consonant phonemes (in IPA) acceptable in various syllable and word positions. -- Table 1.7: Attested combinations of permissible syllable codas followed by permissible syllable onsets. -- Table 1.8: Holmer's vowel transcriptions for Yagara and three other languages in Part 3 of his Linguistic Survey. -- Table 1.9: Ridley's vowel transcriptions for Yagara and nine other languages in his Kámilarói, and Other Australian Languages. -- Table 1.10: Lauterer's vowel transcriptions for Yagara in 'Outlines of a Grammar'. -- Table 1.11: Approximate correspondence of vowel transcriptions based on explanations in the sources. -- Table 1.12: Noun cases. -- Table 1.13: Derivational affixes. -- Table 1.14: Yagara pronouns. -- Table 1.15: Yagara adnominal demonstratives. -- Table 1.16: Yagara adverbial demonstratives. -- Table 1.17: Yagara interrogative pronouns. -- Table 1.18: Verbal inflectional suffixes. -- Table 2.1: Pronouncing Yagara words in the dictionary. -- Abbreviations and conventions -- Part 1. Grammar -- 1.1. The Yagara language -- 1.2. Kinship -- 1.3. Phonology -- 1.4. Parts of speech -- 1.5. Nominal morphology -- 1.6. Verbal morphology -- 1.7. Interjections -- 1.8. Clitics -- 1.9. Syntax -- Part 2. Dictionary -- 2.1. Using the dictionary -- 2.2. Yagara - English Dictionary. |
2.3. English-Yagara Finder List -- Part 3. Texts -- 3.1. The contents of Part 3 -- 3.2. Background to the texts -- 3.3. Sentence lists -- 3.4. The Resurrection (Ridley 1875) -- 3.5. From Genesis 1, 2, and 3 (Ridley 1875) -- 3.6. From Luke 7 and 8 (Ridley 1875) -- References. |
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Most English speakers in Australia know a few words of Yagara, the Pama-Nyungan language traditionally spoken in the area that now includes Brisbane and Ipswich. For example, Australian English yakka 'work' comes from the Yagara verb yaga'to work'. |
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