Author: Karen FieldsPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1844679942
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
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Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
Author: Karen FieldsPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1844679942
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
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The Armies of the Streets
Author: Adrian CookPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813162556
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
In July 1863 New York City experienced widespread rioting unparalleled in the history of the nation. Here for the first time is a scholarly analysis of the Draft Riots, dealing with motives and with the reasons for the recurring civil disorders in nineteenth-century New York: the appalling living conditions, the corruption of the civic government, and the geographical and economic factors that led up to the social upheaval.
Old Growth in the East
Author: Mary D. DavisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Counsel for the United States
Author: James EisensteinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Biographical and Reminiscent History of Richland, Clay and Marion Counties, Illinois
Author: Past and Present of DeKalb County, Illinois
Author: Lewis M. GrossPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : De Kalb County (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
The Emergence of Distinctive Features
Author: Jeff MielkePublisher: Oxford Studies in Typology and
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This book makes a fundamental contribution to phonology, linguistic typology, and the nature of the human language faculty. Distinctive features in phonology distinguish one meaningful sound from another. Since the mid-twentieth century they have been seen as a set characterizing all possible phonological distinctions and as an integral part of Universal Grammar, the innate language faculty underlying successive versions of Chomskyan generative theory. The usefulness of distinctive features in phonological analysis is uncontroversial, but the supposition that features are innate and universal rather than learned and language-specific has never, until now, been systematically tested. In his pioneering account Jeff Mielke presents the results of a crosslinguistic survey of natural classes of distinctive features covering almost six hundred of the world's languages drawn from a variety of different families. He shows that no theory is able to characterize more than 71 percent of classes, and further that current theories, deployed either singly or collectively, do not predict the range of classes that occur and recur. He reveals the existence of apparently unnatural classes in many languages. Even without these findings, he argues, there are reasons to doubt whether distinctive features are innate: for example, distinctive features used in signed languages are different from those in spoken languages, even though deafness is generally not hereditary. The author explains the grouping of sounds into classes and concludes by offering a unified account of what previously have been considered to be natural and unnatural classes. The data on which the analysis is based are freely available in a program downloadable from the publisher's web site.
Van Deursen Family
Author: Albert Harrison Van DeusenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Theban Desert Road Survey II
Author: John Coleman DarnellPublisher: Yale Egyptology
ISBN: 1950343081
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
The second monograph devoted to the work of the Theban Desert Road Survey presents the major rock inscriptions of the northwestern Theban Desert and the western hinterlands of Qamula. The material includes six larger sites and several smaller collections and individual inscriptions and images, sites discovered by the Theban Desert Road Survey over the course of approximately twelve field seasons. The major groupings of inscriptions, from south to north, are the rock shrine of Pahu and the inscriptions of Gebel Akhenaton, sites in the vicinity of the Wadi Himdaniya; a small but interesting collection of inscriptions near the Wadi Arqub Baghla, with two smaller, outlying sites; inscriptions of the Wadi Magar to the north, including the site of the great Predynastic tableau with its plethora of crocodiles, the associated vignette of Elephant-on-the-Gebel, along with the nearby Gebel Sutekh site, and smaller concentrations beyond; and finally the inscriptions of the area of the Matna el-Barqa. Highlights of the epigraphic material include new prayers to Amun and Hathor-one a genuine New Kingdom de profundis recording an appeal to Amun during a storm on the Nile-several important Predynastic and Protodynastic tableaux, and the only rock art depictions of Akhenaton in a true Amarna style.
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