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UNINA9910971962603321 |
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Easterly William <1957-> |
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The elusive quest for growth : economists' adventures and misadventures in the tropics / / William Easterly |
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Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2001 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (357 pages) |
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Poor - Developing countries |
Poverty - Developing countries |
Developing countries Economic policy |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-333) and index. |
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Machine generated contents note: I Why Growth Matters 1 -- 1 To Help the Poor 5 -- Intermezzo: In Search of a River 16 -- II Panaceas That Failed 21 -- 2 Aid for Investment 25 -- Intermezzo: Parmila 45 -- 3 Solow's Surprise: Investment Is Not the Key to Growth 47 -- Intermezzo: Dry Cornstalks 70 -- 4 Educated for What? 71 -- Intermezzo: Without a Refuge 85 -- 5 Cash for Condoms? 87 -- Intermezzo: Tomb Paintings 99 -- 6 The Loans That Were, the Growth That Wasn't 101 -- Intermezzo: Leila's Story 121 -- 7 Forgive Us Our Debts 123 -- Intermezzo: Cardboard House 138 -- III People Respond to Incentives 141 -- 8 Tales of Increasing Returns: Leaks, Matches, and Traps 145 -- Intermezzo: War and Memory 170 -- 9 Creative Destruction: The Power of Technology 171 -- Intermezzo: Accident in Jamaica 193 -- 10 Under an Evil Star 195 -- Intermezzo: Favela Life 215 -- 11 Governments Can Kill Growth 217 -- Intermezzo: Florence and Veronica 240 -- 12 Corruption and Growth 241 -- Intermezzo: Discrimination in Palanpur 253 -- 13 Polarized Peoples 255 -- Intermezzo: Violent for Centuries 282 -- 14 Conclusion: The View from Lahore 285 -- Notes 293 -- References and Further Reading 313 -- Index 335. |
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Why economists' attempts to help poorer countries improve their |
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economic well-being have failed. |
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UNINA9910953256503321 |
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Winford Donald |
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Predication in Caribbean English Creoles / / Donald Winford |
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Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., , 1993 |
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1-283-32808-9 |
9786613328083 |
90-272-7695-1 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (427 pages) : illustrations |
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Creole language library, , 0920-9026 ; ; v. 10 |
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Creole dialects, English - Caribbean Area - Verb phrase |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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PREDICATION IN CARIBBEAN ENGLISH CREOLES; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1. Preliminaries; 2. Varieties of Caribbean English Creole; 2.1 The Problem of the Continuum; 2.2 Mesolect vs Basilect; 3. Choice of varieties for present analysis; 3.1 Sources of Data; 4. Scope of the book; 5. A framework for formal analysis; Chapter 2. The Verb Complex; 1. Introduction; 1.1 The semantics and uses of TMA categories in CEC; 2. The TMA categories of CEC; 2.1 Tense, aspect and mood; 2.2 Aspect in CEC; 2.2.1 Perfective. |
2.2.2 Imperfective. 2.2.3 The Progressive in JC.; 2.2.4 Current Duration.; 2.2.5 Completive.; 3. Modality in CEC; 3.1 Types of modality; 3.2 Deontic modality in CEC; 3.3 Subjective Deontic uses of mos, kyan and kyaan; 3.4 Epistemic Modality.; 3.4.1 Epistemic mos; 3.4.2 Epistemic kyan; 3.4.3 Epistemic kyaan; 3.4.5 Epistemic sa; 3.5 The ""secondary"" modals in JC and GC; 3.6 Summary; Chapter 3. Auxiliary Ordering; 1. Introduction; 2. Previous Analyses; 3. GPSG Principles and CEC auxiliaries; 3.1 The Grammar; 3.3 Comparing JC with GC; 4. Summary; Chapter 4. Voice, Valency and Transitivity |
1. Introduction 2. Transitivity and the creole passive; 2.1 Restrictions |
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on passivization; 2.2 Passivization and the scale of transitivity; 2.3 Pragmatic and other factors; 2.4 Perfective and Passive; 2.5 Enhancing transitivity; 3. Distinguishing passives from other constructions; 3.1 CEC Passives vs English Middles; 3.2 Passive vs anticausative; 3.3 Passives and Predicate adjectives; 3.4 Basic vs ""get"" ""passives"" and related constructions; 3.5 Summary; 4. Syntax of the CEC passive; 5. Conclusion; Chapter 5. Copular and Attributive Predication; 1. Introduction; 2. Equative Constructions |
2.1 Rules for Predicate Nominal Structures 3. Locative Predicate Structures; 3.2 De in Attributive Structures; 4. Attributive Predication; 4.1 Property Items as adjectives; 4.2 Property items in their predicative junction; 4.3 Property items and semantic types in CEC; 4.4 Syntactic Properties of Attributive Predicators; 4.5 Attributive predication in JC; 4.6 Implications for a grammar; 5. Categorial re-analysis of attributive predicators; 6. Implications for other creoles; 7. Summary and Conclusions; Chapter 6. Serial Verb Constructions; 1. Defining Serial Verb Constructions |
1.1 Coordination and SVC's 1.2 Parataxis vs SVC's; 1.3 Paratactic structures in CEC; 1.4 Other distinctions; 2. Constituent structure of SVC's; 2.1 Argument-sharing in SVC's; 3. SVC's in CEC; 3.1 SVC's and Motion Events; 3.2 ""Directional"" SVC's in CEC; 3.2.1 The syntax of directional SVC's; 3.3 ""Purposive"" go and kom; 3.3.1 The syntax of purposive SVC's; 3.4 ""Purposive"" SVC's with kom/go/gaan; 3.5 Other motion-related SVC's in CEC; 3.6 Other object-sharing SVC's; 4. ""Comparative"" SVC'S; 4.1 Comparative ""more""; 5. Serial verbs and ""Case-marking""; 5.1 ""Take"" Serial constructions and ""case-marking"" |
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This is the first major study of the conservative or basilectal English creoles of the Anglophone Caribbean since Bailey's (1966) and Bickerton's (1975) descriptions of Jamaican and Guyanese Creole respectively. The book offers a comprehensive, unified treatment of the core areas of CEC predication, including the verb complex, auxiliary ordering, voice and valency, copular and attributive predication, serial verb constructions and complementation. Particularly note-worthy is its utilization of an extremely rich data base and a variety of sources to provide an up-to-date, state of the art accou |
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