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Revolutionaries, rebels and robbers : the golden age of banditry in Mexico, Latin America and the Chicano American Southwest, 1850-1950 /
\"This volume delivers a comprehensive study of banditry in Latin America and of its cultural representation. In its scope across the continent, looking closely at nations where bandit culture has manifested itself forcefully -- Mexico (the subject of the case study), the Hispanic south-west of the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela and Cuba -- it imagines a 'Golden Age' of banditry in Latin America from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1940s when so-called 'social bandits', an idea first proposed by Eric Hobsbawm and further developed here, flourished. In its content, this work offers the most detailed and wide-ranging study of its kind currently available.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Sexing the world
From 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 Worldsurveys the many ways in which grammatical gender enabled Latin speakers to organize aspects of their society into sexual categories, and how this identification of grammatical gender with biological sex affected Roman perceptions of Latin poetry, divine power, and the human hermaphrodite.
Beginning with the ancient grammarians, Anthony Corbeill examines how these scholars used the gender of nouns to identify the sex of the object being signified, regardless of whether that object was animate or inanimate. This informed the Roman poets who, for a time, changed at whim the grammatical gender for words as seemingly lifeless as \"dust\" (pulvis) or \"tree bark\" (cortex). Corbeill then applies the idea of fluid grammatical gender to the basic tenets of Roman religion and state politics. He looks at how the ancients tended to construct Rome's earliest divinities as related male and female pairs, a tendency that waned in later periods. An analogous change characterized the dual-sexed hermaphrodite, whose sacred and political significance declined as the republican government became an autocracy. Throughout, Corbeill shows that the fluid boundaries of sex and gender became increasingly fixed into opposing and exclusive categories.
Sexing the Worldcontributes to our understanding of the power of language to shape human perception.
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Latinity and identity in Anglo-Saxon literature
In this groundbreaking collection, ten leading scholars explore the intersections between identity and Latin language and literature in Anglo-Saxon England.
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Archaic and Old Latin
This chapter contains sections titled:
Sources
Orthography and Phonology
Selected Morphological Features
Lexicon
Some Syntactic Patterns
Archaic Latin
Samples of Inscriptions
Old Latin: On the Threshold of the Classical Language
Further Reading
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The Latin Alphabet and Orthography
This chapter contains sections titled:
Introduction
Arrival of the Alphabet in Italy
Etruscan Origins
Date of Borrowing and Other Considerations
Innovations and Changes
Old Latin Orthography
Letterforms
Direction of Writing and Punctuation
Abbreviations
Letter Names
Diffusion of the Latin Alphabet
Further Reading
Book Chapter
Two Recent Works on Textual Criticism
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Here follow two reviews of works within the field of New Testament textual criticism: one is of the final five fascicules of Jean-Claude Haelewyck's Mark for the Vetus Latina series; the other is of Didier Lafleur's analysis of a good number of the Greek New Testament manuscripts currently in Tirana, Albania.
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Violeta : a novel
\"This sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Nominalization as a typological phenomenon: A comparison between Latin and Australian languages: Types and tokens
This study deals both with action nouns as a semantic class of word formation and with nominalization as a derivational process via offering a lot of relevant data in a kind of typological confrontation. Oswald Panagl investigates Latin examples applying criteria such as productivity, regularity, semantic transparency and syntactic behavior. As a result, he denotes derivations in -
as the most vivid and active type of action noun delivering almost countless tokens. As a special case he treats the nominalizations in -
becoming productive when they establish the grammatical category of supine in -
. This procedure of a switch from derivation to inflection represents a sort of grammaticalization. He offers a scale model of increasing concretization (action–result–instrument–location–agents) exemplified with items from a variety of languages. Fritz Schweiger’s research presents a series of data from the Australian languages (Alyawarra, Bunuba, Diyari, Djapu, Gumbaynggir, Guugu Yimidhirr, Kalkatungu, Uradhi, Wambaya, and Wardaman). The author defines and analyzes the morpholo gical principles of word formation in his linguistic material and classifies the data
Because of the specific situation and the complex interrelations within this linguistic group of tongues investigated in this paper, it seems nearly impossible to develop and apply criteria of the common sort for uncovering genealogical kinship.
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