1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910828499803321

Titolo

Serial verb constructions [[electronic resource] ] : a cross-linguistic typology / / edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and R.M.W. Dixon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, U.K. ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-383-04241-1

1-280-90591-3

0-19-153540-0

1-4294-7089-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (394 p.)

Collana

Explorations in linguistic typology ; ; v. 2

Altri autori (Persone)

AĭkhenvalʹdA. I͡U (Aleksandra I͡Urʹevna)

DixonRobert M. W. <1939->

Disciplina

415/.6

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Verb phrase

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 indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Notes on the Contributors; Abbreviations; 1 SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTIONS IN TYPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE; 2 ON SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTIONS IN CANTONESE; 3 SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTIONS IN GOEMAI; 4 SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTIONS IN KHWE (CENTRAL-KHOISAN); 5 EWE SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTIONS IN THEIR GRAMMATICAL CONTEXT; 6 VERB SERIALIZATION IN EASTERN KAYAH LI; 7 THAI SERIAL VERBS: COHESION AND CULTURE; 8 SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTIONS IN TARIANA; 9 SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTIONS IN DUMO; 10 SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTIONS IN MWOTLAP; 11 SERIAL VERBS IN TETUN DILI; 12 SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTIONS IN TOQABAQITA

13 SERIAL VERBS IN OLUTEC (MIXEAN)14 SERIAL VERBS IN LAKOTA (SIOUAN); 15 VERBAL COMPOUNDING IN WOLAITTA; 16 SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTIONS: CONSPECTUS AND CODA; Index of Authors; Index of Subjects; Index of languages, language families, and areas

Sommario/riassunto

A serial verb construction (sometimes just called serial verb) is a sequence of verbs which acts together as one. This outstanding book is the first to study the phenomenon across languages of different



typological and genetic profiles. The authors, all experienced linguistic fieldworkers, follow a unified typological approach and avoid formalisms. The book will interest students, at graduate level and above, of syntax, typology, language universals, information structure, and. language contact. in departments of linguistics and anthropology. - ;This volume of new work explores the forms and fun

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910969773803321

Autore

Falco Raphael <1952->

Titolo

Charisma and myth / / Raphael Falco

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Continuum International Pub., , 2010

ISBN

9786612590696

9781472548870

1472548876

9781282590694

1282590693

9781441153135

1441153136

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Collana

Continuum religious studies

Disciplina

306.601

Soggetti

Charisma (Personality trait)

Myth

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 (pages [200]-206) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 1. From Barbaros to Mythos -- 2. Myth and Routinization -- 3. Authority and Archetypes -- 4. Charisma and Ritual -- Afterward: There Are Charismas Everywhere -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Charisma and Myth combines an interdisciplinary examination of myth with the newest developments in the application of charisma theory to history and social life. Through scores of examples ranging from Inuit myth to Christian theology, from Malinowski to martyrology, Charisma and Myth argues definitively that the survival of myth systems mirrors



the survival of such charismatic groups as modern street gangs, the Anglo-Saxon comitatus, or Satan's fallen angels in Paradise Lost. Even the smallest charismatic group generates its own set of myths, and, like larger myth systems, depends on continual revolutionary change - not, as might be expected, on the stability of its myths - to survive and to achieve longevity. As this innovative study shows, group leaders must learn first to foster and then to manage the mild chaos and changing symbols of their myths. Charisma and Myth challenges myth theorists from the nineteenth through to the twenty-first century and adds a missing component to our understanding of how and why myths continue to grip our imaginations."--Bloomsbury Publishing.