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Voice syncretism
This book provides a comprehensive typological account of voice syncretism, focusing on resemblance in formal verbal marking between two or more of the following seven voices: passives, antipassives, reflexives, reciprocals, anticausatives, causatives, and applicatives. It covers voice syncretism from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives, and has been structured in a manner that facilitates convenient access to information about specific patterns of voice syncretism, their distribution and development. The book is based on a survey of voice syncretism in 222 geographically and genealogically diverse languages, but also thoroughly revisits previous research on the phenomenon. Voice syn...
Inclusão universitária no século XXI: dilemas atuais
Quais obstáculos se fazem presentes nos discursos políticos e acadêmicos na Educação Superior na contemporaneidade? Quais discursos teórico-metodológicos tem mobilizado mudanças das políticas institucionais universitárias? Em que avançamos? O que é necessário alterar para que as universidades sejam mais inclusivas? Que caminhos percorrer para garantir que a pluralidade humana constitua os modos de existir de diferentes corpos que habitam e/ou transitam nos espaços da Universidade? Quais planos e ações são necessários para transformar os obstáculos em facilitadores à promoção de culturas, políticas e práticas inclusivas na Educação Superior? Perguntas como estas e tantas outras foram capturadas por um devir constante pelo compromisso, dos que se aventuraram compartilhar percepções encarnadas na multiplicidade de compreensões que mobilizaram o título desta obra, “Inclusão universitária no século XXI: dilemas atuais”. Sandra Eli Sartoreto de Oliveira Martins Ana Paula Camilo Ciantelli Organizadoras
Reconstructing Syntax
During several decades, syntactic reconstruction has been more or less regarded as a bootless and an unsuccessful venture, not least due to the heavy criticism in the 1970s from scholars like Watkins, Jeffers, Lightfoot, etc. This fallacious view culminated in Lightfoot’s (2002: 625) conclusion: “[i]f somebody thinks that they can reconstruct grammars more successfully and in more widespread fashion, let them tell us their methods and show us their results. Then we’ll eat the pudding.” This volume provides methods for the identification of i) cognates in syntax, and ii) the directionality of syntactic change, showcasing the results in the introduction and eight articles. These examples are offered as both tastier and also more nourishing than the pudding Lightfoot had in mind when discarding the viability of reconstructing syntax.
Antipassive
This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the morpho-syntactic and semantic aspects of the antipassive construction from synchronic, diachronic, and typological perspectives. The nineteen contributions assembled in this volume address a wide range of aspects pertinent to the antipassive construction, such as lexical semantics, the properties of the antipassive markers, as well as the issue of fuzzy boundaries between the antipassive construction and a range of other formally and functionally similar constructions in genealogically and areally diverse languages. Purely synchronically oriented case studies are supplemented by contributions that shed light on the diachronic development of the antipassive construction and the antipassive markers. The book should be of central interest to many scholars, in particular to those working in the field of language typology, semantics, syntax, and historical linguists, as well as to specialists of the language families discussed in the individual contributions.
A Grammar of Alto Perené (Arawak)
Ashéninka Perené belongs to the Kampa group of the Arawak family, located in the central Peruvian Amazon in the foothills of the Andes mountains. While limited grammatical studies of Kampa languages exist, this grammar is by far the most comprehensive study of any language of this sub-family, and is one of only two or three comparable studies of Arawak languages more generally.
Madre and I
In this moving and funny memoir, award-winning playwright Guillermo Reyes untangles his life as the secretly illegitimate son of a Chilean immigrant to the United States and as a young man struggling with sexual repression, body image, and gay identity. But this is a double-decker memoir that also tells the poignant, bittersweet, and adventurous story of Guillermo’s mother, María, who supports herself and her son cleaning houses and then working as a nanny in Washington, D.C. and eventually in Hollywood. In one memorable scene, after realizing that her friend Carmen is cleaning the house of one of the producers of Annie Hall, María recruits her to take her picture as she poses dramatically with Mr. Joffe’s Oscar in hand. It is María’s defiant yet determined attitude amidst her sacrifices that allows for Guillermo’s spirited coming of age and coming out. Their common ground is the drama of their encounters with discovery, heartbreak, and passion—the explosive emotions that light up the stage of their two-actor theater. Honorable Mention, Best Auto/Biography in English, International Latino Book Awards
Manual de cultivo de plantas nativas y naturalizadas para espacios urbanos de bajo mantenimiento
Este libro es el resultado de 10 años de trabajo de investigación en el área de la evaluación de desempeño de diferentes especies nativas para la región central de nuestro país y de regiones bioclimáticamente similares, así como en las tecnologías asociadas al cultivo y multiplicación de estas especies. Se evalúa el desempeño de especies nativas en maceta, canteros y cubiertas naturadas/techos verdes, para que las mismas puedan ocupar espacios urbanos donde su mantenimiento es bajo o nulo. Se presentan, con explicación teórica y metodológica, las regiones bioclimáticas en donde se considera que este conjunto de especies mantendría un buen desempeño para los usos recomendados. Luego, se presentan brevemente distintas técnicas de propagación y transplante que se pueden utilizar, a fin de ilustrar a los potenciales usuarios de las alternativas disponibles para este conjunto de especies.
