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Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
A Pronouncing Dictionary of California Names in English and Spanish
Author: A Pronouncing Dictionary of California Names in English and Spanish
Author: A Pronouncing Dictionary of California Names in English and Spanish
Author: Spanish Loanwords in the English Language
Author: Félix Rodríguez GonzálesPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110890615
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies, which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics. For further publications in English linguistics see also our Dialects of English book series. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher.
American Language Supplement 2
Author: H.L. MenckenPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307813444
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 817
Book Description
The DEFINITIVE EDITION OF The American Language was published in 1936. Since then it has been recognized as a classic. It is that rarest of literary accomplishments—a book that is authoritative and scientific and is at the same time very diverting reading. But after 1936 HLM continued to gather new materials diligently. In 1945 those which related to the first six chapters of The American Language were published as Supplement I; the present volume contains those new materials which relate to the other chapters. The ground thus covered in Supplement II is as follows: 1. American Pronunciation. Its history. Its divergence from English usage. The regional and racial dialects. 2. American Spelling. The influence of Noah Webster upon it. Its characters today. The simplified spelling movement. The treatment of loan words. Punctuation, capitalization, and abbreviation. 3. The Common Speech. Outlines of its grammar. Its verbs, pronouns, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs. The double negative. Other peculiarities. 4. Proper Names in America. Surnames. Given-names. Place-names. Other names. 5. American Slang. Its origin and history. The argot of various racial and occupational groups. Although the text of Supplement II is related to that of The American Language, it is an independent work that may be read profitably by persons who do not know either The American Language or Supplement I.
California Historical Quarterly
Author: Books and Notes
Author: Los Angeles County Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1364
Book Description
A New Pronouncing Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages
Author: Edward GrayPublisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
American Mediterraneans
Author: Susan GillmanPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226819655
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The story of the “American Mediterranean,” both an idea and a shorthand popularized by geographers, historians, novelists, and travel writers from the early nineteenth century to the 1970s. The naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, visiting the Gulf-Caribbean in the early nineteenth century, called it America’s Mediterranean. Almost a century later, Southern California was hailed as “Our Mediterranean, Our Italy!” Although “American Mediterranean” is not a household phrase in the United States today, it once circulated widely in French, Spanish, and English as a term of art and folk idiom. In this book, Susan Gillman asks what cultural work is done by this kind of unsystematic, open-ended comparative thinking. American Mediterraneans tracks two centuries of this geohistorical concept, from Humboldt in the early 1800s, to writers of the 1890s reflecting on the Pacific world of the California coast, to writers of the 1930s and 40s speculating on the political past and future of the Caribbean. Following the term through its travels across disciplines and borders, American Mediterraneans reveals a little-known racialized history, one that paradoxically appealed to a range of race-neutral ideas and ideals.
California Historical Society Quarterly
Author: California Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description