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Book SynopsisFrom the moment a child in ancient Rome began to speak Latin, the surrounding world became populated with objects possessing grammatical gender--masculine eyes (oculi), feminine trees (arbores), neuter bodies (corpora). Sexing the World surveys the many ways in which grammatical gender enabled Latin speakers to organize aspects of their society intTrade ReviewWinner of a 2016 Charles Goodwin Award of Merit, Society for Classical Studies "This book is both enjoyable and thought-provoking."--Teresa Morgan, Times Literary Supplement "There is no denying ... that Corbeill has given us much to ponder about Roman linguistic, literary, and religious culture in these packed pages."--Alison Keith, American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Latin Grammatical Gender Is Not Arbitrary 1 Chapter 1 Roman Scholars on Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex 12 Chapter 2 Roman Poets on Grammatical Gender 41 Chapter 3 Poetic Play with Sex and Gender 72 Chapter 4 Androgynous Gods in Archaic Rome 104 Appendix to Chapter 4: Male/Female Pairs of Deities 136 Chapter 5 The Prodigious Hermaphrodite 143 Abbreviations 171 Works Cited 173 Index Locorum 189 General Index 199

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Readers will find a well-balanced perspective of this issue, covering ethics, finances, intentions, and a glimpse of the future. The book will be of interest to librarians, researchers, publishers, thought leaders, and those interested in digital technology." * Booklist *"This book deserves recognition as the definitive history of the Google book digitization project."---Jeffrey Garrett, ResearchGate"This timely work examines the digitization of libraries and their transformation from collection builders to information access points. . . . Recommended." * Choice *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"By incorporating elements of philosophy of mind into language and metaphysics, this book represents an important turn in thinking about propositions. The book is certain to have a significant impact in discussions of logic, language, and mind in 21st-century analytic philosophy." * Choice *"This book provides an up-to-date and coherent version of Soames' theory of propositions. . . . However, this work is far from being just the result of collecting together the author’s previous achievement in this field. On the contrary, it contains an original proposal while also representing years of research in a systematic and persuasive essay."---Edoardo Rivello, MathSciNet

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Book SynopsisCurrent date of publication from iPage.IngramContent.com.Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*FOREWORD, pg. v*CONTENTS, pg. vii*1. LINGUISTICS AND LITERARY HISTORY, pg. 1*2. LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVISM IN THE DON QUIJOTE, pg. 41*3. THE "RECIT DE THERAMENE", pg. 87*4. THE STYLE OF DIDEROT, pg. 135*5. INTERPRETATION OF AN ODE BY PAUL CLAUDEL, pg. 193

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Book Synopsis* Provides an accessible and fresh account of German writing since 1750. * Achieves a balance between textual analysis and cultural theory that gives the book value as both a key introductory text and a cutting edge original study.Trade Review"A rich and rewarding book"Modern Langauge Review"A valuable contribution to cultural studies. Highly recommended."Choice"Minden's study is intellectually exciting, full of intriguing insights, opinionated and argumentative in the best sense. The book is eloquently written and challenging and will be a major contribution to German Studies and to Cultural Studies."Elizabeth Boa, University of Nottingham "Michael Minden's cultural history of modern German literature provides a rich context for astute and stimulating re-readings of canonical works. In scrutinizing German literature as a variety of social and artistic practices, he offers refreshing perspectives on the interaction between writers, texts and readers."Katrin Kohl, Jesus College, Oxford "This synthetic account of 250 years of Europe's central literary culture is a history of modernity which shows how literature assimilated, anticipated, and countered the effects of rapid social change. Minden's readings of the most influential examples of high and low German literary writing are uncompromisingly intelligent, memorably sententious, and nearly always invite contestation. Modern German Literature is the distillation of a lifetime's reading and teaching; it is a rare feat by a unique scholar and fluent writer."Julian Preece, Swansea UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Cultural History of Literature Chapter one: A European German Literature Chapter two: Poetry and Politics Chapter three: Imperial Modernity Chapter four: The Literature of Negation Chapter five: The Fate of Affirmative Literature Chapter six: Literature in Democratic Capitalism

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Book SynopsisJulia Kristeva is one of the most creative and prolific writers to address the personal, social, and political trials of our times. Linguist, psychoanalyst, social and cultural theorist, and novelist, Kristeva's broad interdisciplinary appeal has impacted areas across the humanities and social sciences. S.K.Trade Review"Keltner's book is highly original, insightful, and promises to change the way scholars have traditionally read Kristeva's work."Kelly Oliver, Vanderbilt University "The book represents an engaging and original interpretation of the entire spectrum of Kristeva's work, including her often overlooked fiction. There are real gems in this manuscript, in particular a terrific and highly original interpretation of Kristeva's theory of intimacy, Oedipus, temporality, as well as of the phenomenological and ontological dimensions of her work, often disregarded by her interpreters. In short, Kristeva is a remarkable intellectual achievement."Ewa Ziarek, University at Buffalo "Keltner deftly demonstrates how Kristeva extends phenomenological insights in radically new directions. Her fresh, probing analysis decisively tackles the social and historical significance of Kristeva's Freudian and aesthetic standpoint. A tour de force of Kristeva's highly faceted portrait of Oedipus supports Keltner's excellent and timely elucidation of 'intimate revolt.'"Sara Beardsworth, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, author of Julia Kristeva: Psychoanalysis and ModernityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Thresholds Chapter 1: Kristeva's Theory of Meaning and Subjectivity § The Semiotic and the Symbolic, § From the Symbolic to the Semiotic - The Phenomenological Theory of Meaning, § From the Semiotic to the Symbolic - The Psychoanalytic Theory of Meaning, § The Dialectic of Semiotic and Symbolic Chapter 2: Kristeva's Psychoanalytic - Abjection, Love, and Loss § Kristeva's Theory of Subjective Diachrony, § Powers of Horror, § Tales of Love, § Black Sun, § Abjection, Love, and Loss in the Wake of Symbolic Collapse Chapter 3: The Public Stakes of Intimacy § What Is Intimacy? § Intimacy and the Event of Natality, § Freud's Involution of Intimacy, § Abjection Ð Intimate Suffering/ Public Horror, § "Ravaged Intimacy" and the Event of Death," § What's Love Got to Do with It? Chapter 4: Intimate Revolt and the Society of the Spectacle § The Spectacular Horizon of Kristeva's Concept of Revolt, § The Scandal of Timelessness - Kristeva's Phenomenological-Psychoanalytic Concept of Time, § In Search of an Experience - Proustian Revolt, § Sex and Time: The Interminable Revolt of Female Genius Chapter 5: So Many Oedipuses, So Little Time § Reviving Oedipus, § Oedipus is dead, and we have killed him, § The Irony of Antigone, pariah of the sacred, § Anti-Oedipus Chapter 6: Kristeva's Novelistic Approach to Social and Political Life § Homo Spectator, § Detective Fiction: Kristeva's Proper, Specular Inquiry, § Inspector Freud; Dr. Delacour, § My Own Private Byzantium; or, the Odd Future Anterior of Kristeva's Hero Conclusion: Politics at the Margin - Kristeva's Wager on the Future of Revolt Further reading Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisJulia Kristeva is one of the most creative and prolific writers to address the personal, social, and political trials of our times. Linguist, psychoanalyst, social and cultural theorist, and novelist, Kristeva's broad interdisciplinary appeal has impacted areas across the humanities and social sciences. S.K.Trade Review"Keltner's book is highly original, insightful, and promises to change the way scholars have traditionally read Kristeva's work."Kelly Oliver, Vanderbilt University "The book represents an engaging and original interpretation of the entire spectrum of Kristeva's work, including her often overlooked fiction. There are real gems in this manuscript, in particular a terrific and highly original interpretation of Kristeva's theory of intimacy, Oedipus, temporality, as well as of the phenomenological and ontological dimensions of her work, often disregarded by her interpreters. In short, Kristeva is a remarkable intellectual achievement."Ewa Ziarek, University at Buffalo "Keltner deftly demonstrates how Kristeva extends phenomenological insights in radically new directions. Her fresh, probing analysis decisively tackles the social and historical significance of Kristeva's Freudian and aesthetic standpoint. A tour de force of Kristeva's highly faceted portrait of Oedipus supports Keltner's excellent and timely elucidation of 'intimate revolt.'"Sara Beardsworth, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, author of Julia Kristeva: Psychoanalysis and ModernityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Thresholds Chapter 1: Kristeva's Theory of Meaning and Subjectivity § The Semiotic and the Symbolic, § From the Symbolic to the Semiotic - The Phenomenological Theory of Meaning, § From the Semiotic to the Symbolic - The Psychoanalytic Theory of Meaning, § The Dialectic of Semiotic and Symbolic Chapter 2: Kristeva's Psychoanalytic - Abjection, Love, and Loss § Kristeva's Theory of Subjective Diachrony, § Powers of Horror, § Tales of Love, § Black Sun, § Abjection, Love, and Loss in the Wake of Symbolic Collapse Chapter 3: The Public Stakes of Intimacy § What Is Intimacy? § Intimacy and the Event of Natality, § Freud's Involution of Intimacy, § Abjection Ð Intimate Suffering/ Public Horror, § "Ravaged Intimacy" and the Event of Death," § What's Love Got to Do with It? Chapter 4: Intimate Revolt and the Society of the Spectacle § The Spectacular Horizon of Kristeva's Concept of Revolt, § The Scandal of Timelessness - Kristeva's Phenomenological-Psychoanalytic Concept of Time, § In Search of an Experience - Proustian Revolt, § Sex and Time: The Interminable Revolt of Female Genius Chapter 5: So Many Oedipuses, So Little Time § Reviving Oedipus, § Oedipus is dead, and we have killed him, § The Irony of Antigone, pariah of the sacred, § Anti-Oedipus Chapter 6: Kristeva's Novelistic Approach to Social and Political Life § Homo Spectator, § Detective Fiction: Kristeva's Proper, Specular Inquiry, § Inspector Freud; Dr. Delacour, § My Own Private Byzantium; or, the Odd Future Anterior of Kristeva's Hero Conclusion: Politics at the Margin - Kristeva's Wager on the Future of Revolt Further reading Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisMedia practices and the everyday cultures of transnational migrants are deeply interconnected. Mediating Migration narrates aspects of the migrant experience as shaped by the technologies of communication and the social, political and cultural configurations of neoliberal globalization.Trade Review"Mediating Migration takes a complicated and difficult subject and offers an original and sophisticated interrogation of the ways contemporary media, in all its dimensions, represents, constructs, and interrogates the experiences of and responses to migration."Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina"In this marvelous and insightful book, Radha Hegde unpacks and then reassembles the relationship between globalization, media, and migration. While many have noted that these key concepts cannot be understood in isolation from each other, in this book we get inside the materiality of the migrant condition as it is constituted by the interplay of global forces and mediated networks. We learn not only how the media shapes popular understanding and policies on migration, but also how migrants produce new mediascapes."Nikos Papastergiadis, The University of MelbourneTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. Legitimacy: Accumulating Status3. Recognition: Politics and Technologies4. Publics: Eyeing Gender5. Domesticity: Digital Visions and Versions6. Authenticity: Pursuits of Auras7. Conclusion: Destinations and BeginningsNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisMedia practices and the everyday cultures of transnational migrants are deeply interconnected. Mediating Migration narrates aspects of the migrant experience as shaped by the technologies of communication and the social, political and cultural configurations of neoliberal globalization.Trade Review"Mediating Migration takes a complicated and difficult subject and offers an original and sophisticated interrogation of the ways contemporary media, in all its dimensions, represents, constructs, and interrogates the experiences of and responses to migration."Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina"In this marvelous and insightful book, Radha Hegde unpacks and then reassembles the relationship between globalization, media, and migration. While many have noted that these key concepts cannot be understood in isolation from each other, in this book we get inside the materiality of the migrant condition as it is constituted by the interplay of global forces and mediated networks. We learn not only how the media shapes popular understanding and policies on migration, but also how migrants produce new mediascapes."Nikos Papastergiadis, The University of MelbourneTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. Legitimacy: Accumulating Status3. Recognition: Politics and Technologies4. Publics: Eyeing Gender5. Domesticity: Digital Visions and Versions6. Authenticity: Pursuits of Auras7. Conclusion: Destinations and BeginningsNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisHow should we read a text that does not exist, or present a play the manuscript of which is lost and the identity of whose author cannot be established for certain? Such is the enigma posed by Cardenio a play performed in England for the first time in 1612 or 1613 and attributed forty years later to Shakespeare (and Fletcher). Its plot is that of a novella' inserted into Don Quixote, a work that circulated throughout the major countries of Europe, where it was translated and adapted for the theatre. In England, Cervantes' novel was known and cited even before it was translated in 1612 and had inspired Cardenio. But there is more at stake in this enigma. This was a time when, thanks mainly to the invention of the printing press, there was a proliferation of discourses. There was often a reaction when it was feared that this proliferation would become excessive, and many writings were weeded out. Not all were destined to survive, in particular plays for thTrade Review"Intriguing … Chartier's elegant analysis of 'the story of a lost play' is predicated upon the disjunction between Renaissance literary production and post-Romantic ideas of authorship that obsess about the creative genius of the single author who breathes originality into a work that remains recognisably and forever, his own." Times Higher Education "Roger Chartier is one of our most enthralling historians of the book. Cardenio between Cervantes and Shakespeare is a brilliant investigation of elusive textual traces across borders, languages, and centuries. Chartier has written an essential case study of the pleasures and perils of cultural mobility." Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University "In this magnificent new book, Roger Chartier extends cultural history into unexplored territory, a pre-modern world where texts proliferated promiscuously, crossing genres, languages, and publics in ways undreamt of today, except by writers like Borges. Chartier challenges the notions of fixed authorship and authoritative texts in a tour of literature between Cervantes and Shakespeare that will surprise and delight readers inside and outside the Academy." Robert Darnton, Harvard University "The great contribution of Chartier’s book is to treat the Shakespearean and Theobaldean Cardenios as two among many versions of this story, for it seems that Cervantes’s convoluted novella caught the imaginations of readers and spectators across Europe and even in the New World." Adrian Johns, University of ChicagoTable of ContentsIntroduction READING A TEXT THAT DOES NOT EXIST Chapter I CARDENIO AT COURT LONDON, 1613 Spain in England Don Quixote in translation Why Cardenio? Dorotea’s story Happy ending Chapter II CARDENIO AND DON QUIXOTE SPAIN, 1605-1608 Don Quixote as he is depicted in his book Double marriages Don Quixote ‘gracioso de comedia’ The madman, the poet and the prince Seeming and being: an exchange of sons Chapter III A FRENCH CARDENIO PARIS, 1628 AND 1638 Don Quixote in France Luscinde’s marriage The mad fits of Cardenio The mad fits of Don Quixote Guérin de Bouscal: the queen of Miconmicon The bearded dueña and the wooden horse Novel, novellas and theatre Chapter IV CARDENIO IN THE REVOLUTION LONDON, 1653 Writing in collaboration. Fletcher and Shakespeare The famous history of the life of King Henry VIII The two noble cousins A play never published Don Quixote in the revolution From Shelton to Gayton. Cardenio in verse Chapter V CARDENIO REDISCOVERED LONDON, 1727 The miracle of the Theatre Royal Publishing and politics Theobald, editor and author Preliminaries, dedications and privilege Theatrical enthusiasm. An authentically Shakespearean play Editorial prudence. A play excluded from the canon Chapter VI REPRESENTATIONS OF CARDENIO ENGLAND, 1660-1727 Images and words. The illustrated Spanish text The engravings of translations Don Quixote without Cardenio. The booklets sold by peddlers Cardenio abridged Don Quixote in serial form Cardenio in the theatre. First D’Urfey, then Theobald Chapter VII CARDENIO ON STAGE LONDON, 1727 The double betrayal The interrupted marriage Ruses and a denouement 1727, 1660, 1613 Double Falshood, a mystification or an adaptation? Epilogue. CARDENIO FEVER The manuscript recovered How should a lost play be staged? Cardenio published The discrepancy between different periods Postscript THE PERMANENCE OF WORKS AND THE PLURALITY OF TEXTS APPENDICES Notes Index of names Tables of Illustrations

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Book SynopsisHow should we read a text that does not exist, or present a play the manuscript of which is lost and the identity of whose author cannot be established for certain? Such is the enigma posed by Cardenio a play performed in England for the first time in 1612 or 1613 and attributed forty years later to Shakespeare (and Fletcher). Its plot is that of a novella' inserted into Don Quixote, a work that circulated throughout the major countries of Europe, where it was translated and adapted for the theatre. In England, Cervantes' novel was known and cited even before it was translated in 1612 and had inspired Cardenio. But there is more at stake in this enigma. This was a time when, thanks mainly to the invention of the printing press, there was a proliferation of discourses. There was often a reaction when it was feared that this proliferation would become excessive, and many writings were weeded out. Not all were destined to survive, in particular plays for thTrade Review"Intriguing … Chartier's elegant analysis of 'the story of a lost play' is predicated upon the disjunction between Renaissance literary production and post-Romantic ideas of authorship that obsess about the creative genius of the single author who breathes originality into a work that remains recognisably and forever, his own." Times Higher Education "Roger Chartier is one of our most enthralling historians of the book. Cardenio between Cervantes and Shakespeare is a brilliant investigation of elusive textual traces across borders, languages, and centuries. Chartier has written an essential case study of the pleasures and perils of cultural mobility." Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University "In this magnificent new book, Roger Chartier extends cultural history into unexplored territory, a pre-modern world where texts proliferated promiscuously, crossing genres, languages, and publics in ways undreamt of today, except by writers like Borges. Chartier challenges the notions of fixed authorship and authoritative texts in a tour of literature between Cervantes and Shakespeare that will surprise and delight readers inside and outside the Academy." Robert Darnton, Harvard University "The great contribution of Chartier’s book is to treat the Shakespearean and Theobaldean Cardenios as two among many versions of this story, for it seems that Cervantes’s convoluted novella caught the imaginations of readers and spectators across Europe and even in the New World." Adrian Johns, University of ChicagoTable of ContentsIntroduction READING A TEXT THAT DOES NOT EXIST Chapter I CARDENIO AT COURT LONDON, 1613 Spain in England Don Quixote in translation Why Cardenio? Dorotea’s story Happy ending Chapter II CARDENIO AND DON QUIXOTE SPAIN, 1605-1608 Don Quixote as he is depicted in his book Double marriages Don Quixote ‘gracioso de comedia’ The madman, the poet and the prince Seeming and being: an exchange of sons Chapter III A FRENCH CARDENIO PARIS, 1628 AND 1638 Don Quixote in France Luscinde’s marriage The mad fits of Cardenio The mad fits of Don Quixote Guérin de Bouscal: the queen of Miconmicon The bearded dueña and the wooden horse Novel, novellas and theatre Chapter IV CARDENIO IN THE REVOLUTION LONDON, 1653 Writing in collaboration. Fletcher and Shakespeare The famous history of the life of King Henry VIII The two noble cousins A play never published Don Quixote in the revolution From Shelton to Gayton. Cardenio in verse Chapter V CARDENIO REDISCOVERED LONDON, 1727 The miracle of the Theatre Royal Publishing and politics Theobald, editor and author Preliminaries, dedications and privilege Theatrical enthusiasm. An authentically Shakespearean play Editorial prudence. A play excluded from the canon Chapter VI REPRESENTATIONS OF CARDENIO ENGLAND, 1660-1727 Images and words. The illustrated Spanish text The engravings of translations Don Quixote without Cardenio. The booklets sold by peddlers Cardenio abridged Don Quixote in serial form Cardenio in the theatre. First D’Urfey, then Theobald Chapter VII CARDENIO ON STAGE LONDON, 1727 The double betrayal The interrupted marriage Ruses and a denouement 1727, 1660, 1613 Double Falshood, a mystification or an adaptation? Epilogue. CARDENIO FEVER The manuscript recovered How should a lost play be staged? Cardenio published The discrepancy between different periods Postscript THE PERMANENCE OF WORKS AND THE PLURALITY OF TEXTS APPENDICES Notes Index of names Tables of Illustrations

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Book SynopsisWitsuwit’en Grammar presents acoustic studies of several aspects of Witsuwit’en phonetics, including vowel quality, vowel quantity, ejectives, voice quality, and stress.Table of ContentsContentsAuthor’s noteAbbreviationsAcknowledgementsPart 1: Language and Dialect1 Witsuwit’en1.1 Geography1.2 Demographics1.3 Previous research on Witsuwit’en-Babine1.4 Witsuwit’en-U’in Wit’en dialects1.5 Witsuwit’en dialects1.6 Carrier vs. Witsuwit’en-Babine1.7 Language namePart 2: Segmental Phonetics and Phonology2 Consonant contrasts2.1 Consonant inventory2.2 Labial consonants2.3 Nasal consonants2.4 Voiced vs. voiceless fricatives2.5 Labio-velar consonants2.6 /h/2.7 V2.8 Summary3 Consonant Phonetics3.1 Ejective stops3.2 Final glottalic consonants and voice quality3.3 T- qualifier prefix3.4 Summary4 Vowel Quality4.1 Introduction4.2 Previous analyses4.3 An acoustic study of vowel quality4.4 Summary4.5 Tables of numerical results5 Vowel Quantity5.1 Introduction5.2 Reduced vs. full vowels5.3 Long full vowels5.4 / / lengthening5.5 A phonetic study of /a/, /aa/ and lengthened / /5.6 Representation of the reduced and full vowel classes5.7 Summary6 Consonant and vowel classes6.1 Laryngeal features6.2 Place features6.3 Manner features6.4 SummaryPart 3: Morphology and Phonological Structure7 Nouns7.1 Possessive prefixes7.2 Pronouns7.3 Nominal roots7.4 Compounds7.5 Plural and vocative forms7.6 Noun classes7.7 Nouns derived from other lexical categories7.8 Loan words7.9 Summary8 Postpositions8.1 Inflection for object of postposition8.2 Postposition stems: phonological properties8.3 Postposition stems: semantic properties8.4 Noun phrases containing postpositional phrases8.5 Summary9 Directional system9.1 Introduction9.2 Directional morphemes9.3 Directional words9.4 Directional adverbs vs. postpositions9.5 Co-occurrence with verb prefixes9.6 Lexical items historically derived from directional adverbs9.7 Summary10 Adjectives10.1 Predicate adjectives10.2 Nominal adjectives10.3 Post-nominal adjectives10.4 Summary11 Numbers11.1 Cardinal numbers 1-1011.2 Ordinal forms of numbers11.3 Numbers: 11+11.4 Summary12 Overview of verb structure12.1 The lexical verb12.2 Inflection12.3 Derivation12.4 Prefix order restrictions12.5 Discontinuity12.6 The verb system13 Verb roots13.1 Overview13.2 The lexical root13.3 Number13.4 Ablaut13.5 Imperative suffixation14 Verb prefix position classes14.1 Introduction14.2 Voice/valence (classifier)14.3 Inner subject14.4 Tense/negative/conjugation14.5 Qualifier14.6 Pronominal14.7 Distributive: /n/14.8 Incorporated root14.9 Inceptive /ho/14.10 Negative: /we/14.11 Multiple: /ye/14.12 Iterative: /ne/14.13 Preverb: postposition/adverbial14.14 Summary14.15 Word external verb theme forming elements15 Aspectual verb suffixation15.1 Introduction15.2 Continuative15.3 Momentaneous15.4 Persistive15.5 Distributive15.6 Conclusive15.7 Durative15.8 Repetitive15.9 Neuter15.10 Semelfactive15.11 Customary15.12 Progressive15.13 Summary of aspectual stem variation16 Verb theme categories16.1 Introduction16.2 Active vs. neuter verb themes16.3 Active verb themes16.4 Neuter verb themes16.5 Summary17 Inflectionally defective verbs17.1 Third person subject only17.2 No perfective17.3 No perfective and no positive17.4 Suppletive perfective17.5 No imperfective17.6 Imperfective negative only17.7 Imperative only17.8 No negative17.9 No tense or subject17.10 Summary18 Phonological domains18.1 Word domain18.2 Stem domain18.3 Prefix domain18.4 Conjunct domain18.5 Qualifier domain?18.6 SummaryPart 4: Suprasegmental Phonology19 Syllables19.1 Syllable types19.2 Coda consonants19.3 Word-final rhymes19.4 Onsetless syllables19.5 Consonant clusters19.6 Antigemination19.7 Syllable weight19.8 [ ] ~ 0 alternations19.9 Glides19.10 Summary20 Stress20.1 Previous analyses20.2 Word stress: qualitative observations20.3 Phonetic correlates of stress in Witsuwit’en20.4 SummaryPart 5: Prefix Case Studies21 Morpheme-specific alternation21.1 Introduction21.2 Allomorphy as output optimization21.3 Co-phonologies vs. prespecification21.4 Summary22 First person plural subject prefix22.1 Introduction22.2 Overview22.3 ___V22.4 V___.C22.5 C___.C22.6 PWd[___.C22.7 ___C.22.8 PWd[C___22.9 Second person singular object + first person plural subject22.10 Summary22.11 Cross-linguistic perspective23 Areal prefix23.1 Introduction23.2 The areal prefix in Witsuwit’en23.3 The verbal areal prefix23.4 The areal prefix with nouns, postpositions, adjectives and directional adverbs23.5 Summary24 D- voice prefix24.1 Introduction24.2 The Witsuwit’en pattern24.3 First person dual subject24.4 OT analysis24.5 Thematic and iterative D- voice24.6 D- combinations24.7 SummaryPart 6: Conclusion25 Witsuwit’en in comparative and theoretical perspectiveAppendices26 Historical phonology26.1 Consonants26.2 Reflexes of vowel initial roots26.3 Vowels27 Writing systems for Witsuwit'en-Babine27.1 Introduction27.2 G j vs. gg g27.3 Cl vs. gil27.4 Long full vowels27.5 Front vowels27.6 Uwh, eeyh vs. uh, ïh27.7 Glottalized nasals27.8 Conclusion28 Verb paradigms28.1 Imperfective and customary28.2 Perfective28.3 Future28.4 Optative28.5 Perfective negative28.6 Non-perfective negative28.7 Irregular verbs29 Texts29.1 Alfred Joseph, 1 July 9, Witsuwit'en summit29.2 Mabel Forsythe and Lillian Morris talking together, September 7ReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisA two-edged sword of reconciliation and betrayal, Chinook Jargon (aka Wawa) arose at the interface of Indian and White societies in the Pacific Northwest. Wawa's sources lie first in the language of the Chinookans who lived along the lower Columbia River ...Table of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note on Orthography Introduction 1 The Nootka Jargon 2 Pidgin Chinook 3 Approximations at Astoria 4 The Hothouse of Fort Vancouver 5 Waves of Wawa Conclusion Appendix – Manuscript 195: A partially Annotated Early Glossary of Chinook Jargon Chronology Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIser examines what happens during the reading process, and how it is basic to the development of a theory of aesthetic response, setting in motion a chain of events that depends both on the text and the exercise of certain human faculties.Trade ReviewA splendid theoretical companion to Iser's The Implied Reader. The earlier book drew much attention for its reader-centered practical criticism of narrative fiction from Bunyan on. The new volume explains Iser's phenomenological technique... This book belongs in every serious, up-to-date literature collection. Library Journal.

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Book SynopsisAnyone who wants to learn how to write, how to think, and how thinking and writing are related will want to read this book.

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Book SynopsisIs it fair to judge early Greek rhetoric by the standards of Plato and Aristotle? Arguing against the common view that it is, this work sees early Greek rhetoric as largely unsystematic efforts to explore, more by means than by precept, all aspects of discourse.Trade Review[An] important and challenging book... Cole's re-seeing of the evidence is compelling and provocative. Certainly it willbe of great interest to serious students of rhetoric, Greek prose, indeed, of ancient literature. Classical World One of the most intelligent and illuminating books on early prose literature. Journal of Hellenic Studies Cole's book is a welcome addition to the field of classical rhetorical studies... It is a good example of erudite scholarship. Quarterly Journal of Speech Provocative... The evidence Cole assembles is as interesting as his thesis. Philosophy and RhetoricTable of ContentsPrefaceBibliographical NoteChapter 1. Rhetoric, Neorhetoric, ProtorhetoricPart I. The Prerhetorical AgeChapter 2. Oral Poetry and Oral EloquenceChapter 3. Tact and EtiquetteChapter 4. Allegory and RhetoricPart II. The Late Fifth CenturyChapter 5. Techne and TextChapter 6. The Range and Limits of TechnePart III. The Fourth CenturyChapter 7. Rhetoric and ProseChapter 8. Rhetoric and PhilosophyNotesGeneral IndexIndex of Passages Cited

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Book SynopsisWith this edition of A Saloonkeeper's Daughter, an important and prescient work of American fiction is finally available in English.Trade ReviewAn intriguing book... The novel realistically details middle-class life in the Norwegian-American immigrant community in 1870s Minneapolis. -- Clarence Mondale American Studies International At last available in an English translation, this Norwegian American historical novel... tells the story of the beautiful Astrid, an immigrant who struggles to find her way to independence and faith. Janson was 36 when she came to the U.S., and in this novel she vividly evokes the tough life in Minneapolis and the landscape of Norway and Minnesota... Highly recommended for all libraries. Choice Drude Krog Janson lived an incredibly fascinating life, at the center of which was the struggle for women's rights. This is also true of her first novel, which follows a woman through adversity and struggle in a man's world and a class-conscious culture, until she finds her own identity as a free and independent human being... Today the novel is of interest both for its historical setting and as an early and daring attempt to tell the story of a young woman who has the strength and the courage to choose to live a full life without compromise. The novel may also make you wish to find out more about the author: a very many-faceted and productive woman who had an impact both in Norway and abroad. -- Hans H. Skei Aftenposten (Oslo) A Saloonkeeper's Daughter is fascinating and enjoyable reading... The novel is a lyrical female coming-of-age story, realistically portraying the protagonist's struggles while showing women who create successful intellectual and emotional lives for themselves in a male-dominated society. -- Solveig Zempel Journal of American Ethnic History This strong American novel... is above all else a women's liberation treatise that is universally applicable... It is an interesting and worthwhile reading experience. AvisenTable of ContentsContents: Translator's Preface Introduction A Saloonkeeper's Daughter Notes

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Book SynopsisAlter examines how comparative philology provided a genealogical model of language that Darwin, as well as other scientists and language scholars, used to construct rhetorical parallels with the common-descent theory of evolution.Trade ReviewThe emphasis throughout on how analogies can influence belief is important and persuasive. All told, Alter has provided a rich and rewarding account of the often subtle connections that bound the nineteenth-century sciences of language and life. -- Gregory Radick British Journal of the History of Science

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Book SynopsisPresents an overview of the Miami-Illinois language. This work reconstructs the language spoken by the Miami and the Illinois Native Americans. During the latter half of the seventeenth century both Native communities lived in the region to the south of Lake Michigan in present-day Illinois and Indiana.Trade Review"A seminal work of impeccable scholarship, The Miami-Illinois Language is very highly recommended for inclusion into Native American Studies in general, and Native American Linguistics reference collections in particular."—Wisconsin Bookwatch

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Book SynopsisPresents a survey and analysis of the southeastern Native languages at the close of the twentieth century. The diversity and richness of these surviving linguistic traditions emerge in this volume. It provides an overview and grammatical sketch of a language, basing discussion on a narrative text presented at the beginning of the chapter.

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Book SynopsisSpeech act theory has taught us how to do things with words. Arresting Language turns its attention in the opposite directiontoward the surprising things that language can undo and leave undone. In the eight essays of this volume, arresting language is seen as language at rest, words no longer in service to the project of establishing conventions or instituting legal regimes. Concentrating on both widely known and seldom-read texts from a variety of philosophers, writers, and criticsfrom Leibniz and Mendelssohn, through Kleist and Hebel, to Benjamin and Irigaraythe book analyzes the genesis and structure of interruption, a topic of growing interest to contemporary literary studies, continental philosophy, legal studies, and theological reflection.Beginning with an exposition of Hölderlin''s rigorous account of interruption in terms of the pure word, in which the event of representation alone appears, Arresting Language identifies critical moments iTrade Review"Eight unique essays . . . recommended for lage academic or specialized collections." -- Library Journal

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive dictionary of the major indigenous language of Mexico, the language of the Aztecs and many of their neighbours. Nahuatl speakers became literate within a generation of contact with Europeans and a vast literature has been composed in Nahuatl, beginning in the mid-16th century.

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Book SynopsisShows teachers how to introduce academic language to young children, with an emphasis on appreciating and leveraging linguistic diversity. This practitioner-friendly text provides instructional materials, sample dialogues, and assessment tools to facilitate academic language use in PreK-3 classrooms.

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Book SynopsisThis book makes learning Old English easy. It contains a simplified grammar, a minimum of phonology, well-chosen selections from Old English prose, and rich selections from Old English poetry. The texts are in regularized spelling, based on Early West Saxon, so that beginners will not have to wrestle with a shifting orthography.Trade ReviewAn excellent introduction Old English. The reader is complete with excellent translations; and the grammar part is clear and suitable for an undergraduate or graduate student. The anthology is well selected." — Choice

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Book SynopsisThis workbook contains additional exercises to supplement each chapter of Latin Via Ovid, a Latin textbook for classroom use. It features exercises consisting of fill-ins, sentence completion, declining verbs, translation in and out of Latin, and crossword puzzles.

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Book SynopsisLanguage is integral to oursocial being. But what is the status of those who stand outside of language?The mentally disabled, wild children, people with autism and otherneurological disorders, as well as animals, infants, angels, and artificialintelligences, have all engaged with language from a position at its borders.In the intricate verbal constructions of modern literature, thedisarticulate'those at the edges of languagehave, paradoxically, playedessential, defining roles. Drawing on the disarticulate figures inmodern fictional works such as Billy Budd, The Sound and the Fury,Nightwood, White Noise, and The Echo Maker, among others,James Berger shows in this intellectually bracing study how these charactersmark sites at which aesthetic, philosophical, ethical, political, medical, andscientific discourses converge. It is also the place of the greatest ethicaltension, as society confronts the needsTrade Review[T]he book is a valuable contribution to disability studies both for its speculations and specific readings. It is a very thoughtful and thought-filled work, nuanced and wide-ranging, which should have an effect on the field. * Critical Inquiry *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Disarticulate and Dysarticulate 1. The Bearing Across of Language: Care, Catachresis, and Political Failure 2. Linguistic Impairment and the Default of Modernism: Totality and Otherness: Dys-/Disarticulate Modernity 3. Post-Modern Wild Children, Falling Towers, and the Counter-Linguistic Turn 4. Dys-/Disarticulation and Disability 5. Alterity Is Relative: Impairment, Narrative, and Care in an Age of Neuroscience Epilogue: "Language in Dissolution" and "A World without Words" Notes Works Cited Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisProvides a comprehensive introduction to Old Irish grammar and metrics. Suitable for use as a course text and as a guide for the independent learner, this handbook is also a useful reference work for students of Indo-European philology and historical linguistics. It is filled with translation exercises based on selections from Old Irish texts.Trade ReviewA welcome and friendly guide to those who would like to know more about the language and literature of early medieval Ireland." - Joseph Nagy, author of Conversing with Angels and Ancients: Literary Myths of Medieval Ireland

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Book Synopsis“An important addition to studies of the genesis and life of Jamaican Creole as well as other New World creoles such as Gulla. Highlighting the nature of the nonstandard varieties of British English dialects to which the African slaves were exposed, this work presents a refreshingly cogent view of Jamaican Creole features.” - SECOL ReviewTrade Review"An important addition to studies of the genesis and life of Jamaican Creole as well as other New World creoles such as Gulla. Highlighting the nature of the nonstandard varieties of British English dialects to which the African slaves were exposed, this work presents a refreshingly cogent view of Jamaican Creole features." - SECOL Review "Provides valuable historical and demographic data and sheds light on the origins and development of Jamaican Creole. Lalla and D'Costa offer interesting insights into Creole genesis, not only through their careful mapping of the migrations from Europe and Africa, which constructed the Jamaican society but also through extensive documentation of early texts.... Highly valuable to linguists, historians, anthropologists, psychologists, and anyone interested in the Caribbean or in the history of mankind." - New West Indian Guide"

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewI highly recommend Voices in Exile, along with its companion study Language in Exile, as books that should be in the libraries of all Creolists; indeed, most linguists would find them useful. They are relevant to many disciplines and will engage readers outside the specialist field, particularly those interested in colonialism, plantation economies, and the history of slavery. - Language and Linguistics (Australia) ""The two books in combination constitute a major breakthrough in the historical documentation of Jamaican texts... and are excellently produced; [they] combine social and linguistic variation in an exemplary way, adding important chapters to the sociohistorical linguistics of English."" - American Speech

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Trade Review"For those readers interested in language, pedagogy, and administrative issues, [Rhetorical Education in America] is timely with historical, theoretical, and practical approaches. [The editors] bring together scholars who represent the field of rhetoric, writing, and social consequence. Their organizational principle highlights historical and contemporary moments of rhetorical approach and usage in and out of the academy." - ANQ "[Rhetorical Education in America] is a volume that should be in every library and one that those interested in the history of American composition studies will want to own." - Rhetorica"

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Book SynopsisPoets, academics, and those who simply speak a language are subject to mysterious intuitions about the perceptual qualities and emotional symbolism of the sounds of speech. This title investigates the expressive effect of sound patterns, addressing questions of concern for literary theorists and critics as well as for linguists and psychologists.Trade Review"[This] study manages to bring an interdisciplinary breadth and rhetorical clarity to some of the mysteries surrounding the emotional and perceptual coloring of poetic sound-symbolism." Virginia Quarterly Review

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Here are writing systems that are visual to their very core, free from the march of linguistic sounds. In showing us how to read such writing, these authors lead us across the boundaries of archaeology, linguistics, ethnology, history, and art history, and treat us to novel experiments along the way. Anyone who enjoys challenges to ordinary modes of textual interpretation and ordinary ideas about the nature of writing itself is in for quite a treat."—Dennis Tedlock, State University of New York, Buffalo"This is an exceptionally comprehensive and informative work on Pre-Columbian and early colonial recording systems in Mesoamerica and the Andes. The various contributions focus on a range of hieroglyphic, logographic, and mnemonic recording systems, and there are also excellent discussions of the effects of the introduction of European writing on native recording systems. The articles touching on this latter topic all make clear the complexity of links, and the subtle interplay of changes, between record-keeping and ideology. An important and challenging book."—Gary Urton, Colgate UniversityTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Writing and Recording Knowledge / Elizabeth Hill Boone 3 Literacy among the Pre-Columbian Maya: A Comparative / Stephen Houston 27 Aztec Pictorial Histories: Records without Words / Elizabeth Hill Boone 50 Voicing the Painted Image: A Suggestion for Reading the Reverse of the Codez Cospi / Peter L. van der Loo 77 The Text in the Body, the Body in the Text: The Embodied Sign in Mixtec Writing / John Monaghan 87 Hearing the Echoes of Verbal Art in Mixtec Writing / Mark B. King 102 Mexican Codices, Maps and Lienzos as Social Contracts / John M. D. Pohl 137 Primers for Memory: Cartographic Histories and Nahua Identity / Dana Leibsohn 161 Representation in the Sixteenth Century and the Colonial Image of the Inca / Tom Cummins 188 Signs and Their Transmission: The Question of the Book in the New World / Walter D. Mignolo 220 Object and Alphabet: Andean Indians and Documents in the Colonial Period / Joanne Rappaport 271 Afterword: Writing and Recorded Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Situations / Walter D. Mignolo 292 Index 313

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The essays in this volume are well-written, powerfully argued, and provocative critical introductions to issues such as nation and national languages and heteroglossia and interlingualism. With its focus on multilingualism in the U. S., the Caribbean, India, and Ireland, the volume is essential reading for those interested in the remapping of World Literature."—José David Saldívar, University of California, Santa CruzTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: The Here, the Now / Alfred Artega 1 An Other Tongue / Alfred Artega 9 Colonialism and the Politics of Translation / Tejaswini Niranjana 35 Adulteration and the Nation: Monologic Nationalism and the Colonial Hybrid / David Lloyd 53 Seeing with Another I: Our Search for Other Worlds / Eugene C. Eoyang 93 Cut Throat Sun / Jean-Luc Nancy 113 Conjugating Subjects: The Heteroglossia of Essence and Resistance / Norma Alarcon 125 The Ruins of Representation: Shadow Survivance and the Literature of Dominance / Gerald Vizenor 139 A Rhetoric of Obliquity in African and Caribbean Women Writers / Michael G. Cooke 169 Differance and the Discourse of "Community" in Writings by and about the Ethnic Other(s) / Cordelia Chavez Candelaria 185 Dialogism and Schizophrenia / Tzvetan Todorov 203 Bilingualism and Dialogism: Another Reading of Lorna Dee Cervantes's Poetry / Ada Savin 215 Dialogical Strategies, Monological Goals: Chicano Literature / Bruce-Novoa 225 Bilingualism as Satire in Nineteenth-Century Chicano Poetry / Luis A. Torres 247 Nacer en Espagnol / Edmundo Desnoes 263 Bonding in Difference / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 273 Contributors 287 Index 291

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Book SynopsisAs our millennium draws to a close, we find ourselves in the midst of great and rapid global changes with nations and political systems dissolving all around us and the world becoming one of shifting identities--of peoples unified and divided by such distinctions as nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, and colonial status. The articulation and construction of these distinctions, the very language of difference, is the subject of An Other Tongue. This collection of essays by a group of distinguished scholars, including Norma Alarcón, Gayatri Spivak, Tzvetan Todorov, and Gerald Vizenor, explores the interconnections between language and identity. The Chicanos, the U.S./Mexico borderland polyglots whose sense of history, nationality, and race is as mixed as their language, are the book's prime example. But the authors recognize that border zones, like diasporas and post-colonial relations, occur globally, and their discussion of hybrid or mestizo identities ranges from the United StaTrade Review"The essays in this volume are well-written, powerfully argued, and provocative critical introductions to issues such as nation and national languages and heteroglossia and interlingualism. With its focus on multilingualism in the U. S., the Caribbean, India, and Ireland, the volume is essential reading for those interested in the remapping of World Literature."—José David Saldívar, University of California, Santa CruzTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: The Here, the Now / Alfred Artega 1 An Other Tongue / Alfred Artega 9 Colonialism and the Politics of Translation / Tejaswini Niranjana 35 Adulteration and the Nation: Monologic Nationalism and the Colonial Hybrid / David Lloyd 53 Seeing with Another I: Our Search for Other Worlds / Eugene C. Eoyang 93 Cut Throat Sun / Jean-Luc Nancy 113 Conjugating Subjects: The Heteroglossia of Essence and Resistance / Norma Alarcon 125 The Ruins of Representation: Shadow Survivance and the Literature of Dominance / Gerald Vizenor 139 A Rhetoric of Obliquity in African and Caribbean Women Writers / Michael G. Cooke 169 Differance and the Discourse of "Community" in Writings by and about the Ethnic Other(s) / Cordelia Chavez Candelaria 185 Dialogism and Schizophrenia / Tzvetan Todorov 203 Bilingualism and Dialogism: Another Reading of Lorna Dee Cervantes's Poetry / Ada Savin 215 Dialogical Strategies, Monological Goals: Chicano Literature / Bruce-Novoa 225 Bilingualism as Satire in Nineteenth-Century Chicano Poetry / Luis A. Torres 247 Nacer en Espagnol / Edmundo Desnoes 263 Bonding in Difference / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 273 Contributors 287 Index 291

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Book SynopsisBuying into English presents an astute analysis of the factors that have made English so prominent and yet so elusive, and a deconstruction of the myth of guaranteed viability for new states and economies through English.

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Book SynopsisA culturally oriented Hawaiian language textbook. Its grammar lessons include the relationship between the language and the Hawaiian world view. The book's dialogues are drawn from contemporary Hawaiian family life.

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Book SynopsisThe Japonic (Japanese and Ryukyuan) portmanteau language family and the Korean language have been considered isolates on the fringe of northeast Asia. This title reviews advances in the reconstruction of both language families.

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Book SynopsisPresents aspects of Hawaii and its history that are rarely treated in language classes. The major characters in this book make up a diverse cast: Dutch merchants, Captain Cook's naturalist, ÃpkahaÃia, lexicographer Noah Webster, philologists in New England, missionary-linguists and their Hawaiian consultants, and many minor players.

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