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Language and Slavery : A social and linguistic history of the Suriname creoles
This posthumous work by Jacques Arends offers new insights into the emergence of the creole languages of Suriname including Sranantongo or Suriname Plantation Creole, Ndyuka, and Saramaccan, and the sociohistorical context in which they developed. Drawing on a wealth of sources including little known historical texts, the author points out the relevance of European settlements prior to coloniza…
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- Vol. 52
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789027265807
- Collation
- 463p. ; ill.
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- -
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- 409.883 JAC l
Diversity and rabbinization: jewish texts and societies between 400 and 1000 CE
This volume is dedicated to the cultural and religious diversity in Jewish communities from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Age and the growing influence of the rabbis within these communities during the same period. Drawing on available textual and material evidence, the fourteen essays presented here, written by leading experts in their fields, span a significant chronological and geograph…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781783749959
- Collation
- xxiii, 474 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- -
- Call Number
- 296.1 DIV d
Studies in semitic vocalisation and reading traditions
"This volume brings together papers relating to the pronunciation of Semitic languages and the representation of their pronunciation in written form. The papers focus on sources representative of a period that stretches from late antiquity until the Middle Ages. A large proportion of them concern reading traditions of Biblical Hebrew, especially the vocalisation notation systems used to represe…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781783749379
- Collation
- XXIII, 685 p.
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- -
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- 418.4 STU s
Deletion phenomena in comparative constructions: English comparatives in a cr…
This book provides a new analysis for the syntax of comparatives, focusing on various deletion phenomena affecting the subclause. In particular, the proposed account shows that Comparative Deletion is merely a surface phenomenon that can be drawn back to the overtness of the comparative operator and the availability of lower copies of a movement chain, and it is thus subject to both language-in…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783961100842
- Collation
- 252 p.; 22 cm.
- Series Title
- Open Generative Syntax; Volume 3
- Call Number
- 417.7 BAC d
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