1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451646003321

Autore

Sánchez Marta Ester

Titolo

"Shakin' up" race and gender [[electronic resource] ] : intercultural connections in Puerto Rican, African American, and Chicano narratives and culture (1965-1995) / / Marta E. Sánchez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2005

ISBN

0-292-79680-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (221 p.)

Collana

Chicana matters series

Disciplina

810.9/920693/09045

Soggetti

American literature - Minority authors - History and criticism

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Puerto Ricans - United States - Intellectual life

Narration (Rhetoric) - History - 20th century

African Americans - Intellectual life

Mexican Americans - Intellectual life

African Americans in literature

Mexican Americans in literature

Puerto Ricans in literature

Ethnic groups in literature

Minorities in literature

Sex role in literature

Race in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-188) and index.

Nota di contenuto

"In bed" with La Malinche : stories of "family" à la Octavio Paz, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Oscar Lewis -- La Malinche at the intersection of Puerto Rican and African American cultures : Piri Thomas and Down these mean streets -- La Malinche : shuffling the Puerto Rican border in Spanish and Black Harlem -- Of nutshells, frogs, and men in Manchild in the promised land -- Grandma knows best : the women in Manchild in the promised land -- Overcoming self-loathing, learning to love brownness : Oscar Zeta Acosta and the autobiography of a brown



buffalo.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453301703321

Autore

Aĭkhenvalʹd A. I͡U (Aleksandra I͡Urʹevna)

Titolo

The Manambu language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea [[electronic resource] /] / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald ; with the assistance of Jacklyn Yuamali Ala and Pauline Agnes Luma Laki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008

ISBN

1-281-82571-9

9786611825713

0-19-156166-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (729 p.)

Collana

Oxford linguistics

Altri autori (Persone)

Yuamali AlaJacklyn

Luma LakiPauline Agnes

Disciplina

499/.12

Soggetti

Manambu language - Grammar

Electronic books.

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. [679]-687) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Plates; List of Charts, Schemes, and Tables; Organization and Cross-references; Abbreviations and Conventions; Map 1. Location of Manambu villages; 1 Introduction: The Language and its Speakers; 1.1 Linguistic type; 1.2 The Manambu: the present and the past; 1.2.1 Environment and subsistence; 1.2.2 The Manambu villages; 1.2.3 Dwelling patterns: the structure of villages; 1.2.4 Houses and their structure; 1.3 Social organization, kinship, and name ownership; 1.3.1 Clan membership, kinship, and mortuary ritual; 1.3.2 Name ownership and name debates

1.4 Relationships with neighbours and recent history 1.4.1 Indigenous neighbours and traditional warfare; 1.4.2 Relationships with outsiders; 1.5 Linguistic affiliation and prehistory; 1.5.1 The Ndu language family; 1.5.2 The varieties of Manambu; 1.5.3 Origins and putative prehistory; 1.6 Linguistic situation; 1.7 What we know about the Manambu language; 1.8 Basis for this study; Appendix 1.1 Early documentation of Manambu; 2 Phonology; 2.1 Segmental phonology; 2.1.1 Consonants;



2.1.2 Vowels; 2.1.3 Unusual phonetic patterns; 2.2 Syllable structure; 2.2.1 Syllable types

2.2.2 Vowel sequences and diphthongs 2.3 Stress; 2.3.1 Stress assignment; 2.3.2 Stress shift; 2.4 Phonological structure of morphemes and syllable weight; 2.4.1 Phonological structure of verbal and non-verbal roots; 2.4.2 Syllable weight and evidence for iambic stress in verbs; 2.5 Phonological word; 2.5.1 General properties; 2.5.2 When one grammatical word corresponds to more than one phonological word; 2.5.3 When two or three grammatical words form one phonological word; 2.6 Phonological processes; 2.7 Intonation patterns; 3 Grammatical Relations; 3.1 Cross-referencing

3.2 Grammatical relations marked on noun phrases 3.3 'Reactivated topic' demonstratives; 3.4 Grammatical relations in Manambu: a summary; 4 Word Classes; 4.1 Nouns; 4.1.1 Morphophonological subclasses of nouns; 4.1.2 Semantically and grammatically determined subclasses of nouns; 4.2 Verbs; 4.2.1 Verbal grammatical categories; 4.2.2 Semantically and grammatically determined subclasses of verbs; 4.3 Adjectives; 4.3.1 Agreeing and non-agreeing adjectives; 4.3.2 Adjectives in comparison with nouns and verbs; 4.3.3 Semantics of adjectives; 4.4 Adverbs; 4.5 Closed classes; 4.5.1 Modal words

4.5.2 Postpositions 4.5.3 Particles and connectives; 4.5.4 Interjections and onomatopoeia; 4.5.5 'Pro-sentences'; 4.5.6 Word class assignment of loans and code-switches; 5 Gender Marking, Semantics, and Agreement; 5.1 Gender and number agreement: contexts and forms; 5.1.1 Agreement contexts; 5.1.2 Gender and number agreement forms; 5.1.3 Additional gender and number forms; 5.1.4 Functions of gender and number agreement; 5.2 How to choose a gender: semantics, and markedness relationships; 5.2.1 The semantics of gender choice; 5.2.2 Mismatches in gender agreement; 5.2.3 Markedness relations

5.3 Overt gender marking

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents the first comprehensive description of the Manambu language of Papua New Guinea. Manambu belongs to the Ndu language family, and is spoken by about 2,500 people in five villages in East Sepik Province, Ambunti district. The book is based entirely on the author's fieldwork. - ;This book presents the first comprehensive description of the Manambu language of Papua New Guinea. Manambu belongs to the Ndu language family, and is spoken by about 2,500 people in five villages: Avatip, Yawabak, Malu, Apa:n, and Yambon (Yuanab) in East Sepik Province, Ambunti district. About 200-400



3.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00194253

Autore

FEATHER, John

Titolo

The Provincial book trade in eighteenth-century England / John Feather

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, : Cambridge University, 1985

ISBN

05-213-0334-6

Descrizione fisica

xvi, 176 p. ; 23 cm.

Disciplina

820.09

Soggetti

LETTERATURA INGLESE - Sec. 18

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia