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  • Varieties of Spanish in the United States

    Series series Georgetown Studies in Spanish Linguistics series
    Thirty-three million people in the United States speak some variety of Spanish, making it the second most used language in the country. Some of these people are recent immigrants from many different countries who have brought with them the linguistic traits of their homelands, while others come from families who have lived in this country for hundreds of years. John M. Lipski traces the importance ... Read more

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  • A History of Afro-Hispanic Language

    Five Centuries, Five Continents

    The African slave trade, beginning in the fifteenth century, brought African languages into contact with Spanish and Portuguese, resulting in the Africans' gradual acquisition of these languages. In this 2004 book, John Lipski describes the major forms of Afro-Hispanic language found in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America over the last 500 years. As well as discussing pronunciation, morphology ... Read more

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  • John Bull and the Continent

    Series Book 2 - English Literature and Culture in Context
    Ever since John Arbuthnot published The History of John Bull in 1712, the figure of John Bull has stereotypically personified the best and the worst traits of the British (or English) national character. The present work takes the eponymous juxtaposition as an incentive to study the variety of multi-faceted contacts between the two sides. Given the recent attempts at a re-definition of the ... Read more

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  • Afro-Bolivian Spanish

    by John Lipski ...
    Series Book 20 - Lengua y Sociedad en el Mundo Hispánico
    Highland Bolivia, known in colonial times as Alto Perú, was the site of the earliest massive importation of African slaves in Spanish America. Despite the hardships of colonial slavery and demographic assimilation, a small but identifiable Afro-Bolivian population known as Yungas remain in that area today. In a few isolated Yungas communities, a restructured Afro-Hispanic language survives ... Read more

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  • 1650-1850

    Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 28)

    Series Book 28 - 1650-1850
    Rigorously inventive and revelatory in its adventurousness, 1650–1850 opens a forum for the discussion, investigation, and analysis of the full range of long-eighteenth-century writing, thinking, and artistry. Combining fresh considerations of prominent authors and artists with searches for overlooked or offbeat elements of the Enlightenment legacy, 1650–1850 delivers a comprehensive but richly ... Read more

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  • Sterne, Tristram, Yorick

    Tercentenary Essays on Laurence Sterne

    Sterne, Tristram, Yorick: Tercentenary Essays on Laurence Sterne derives from the Laurence Sterne Tercentenary Conference held at Royal Holloway, University of London, on July 8–11, 2013. It was attended by some eighty scholars from fourteen countries; the conference heard more than sixty papers. The organizers invited participants to submit revised versions of their contributions for this volume, ... Read more

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  • Fonética y fonología descriptivas de la lengua española

    Volumes 1 and 2

    The most up-to-date and comprehensive description of the Spanish language's phonetic and phonological systemThough there has been considerable research in Spanish phonetics and phonology, until now, no in-depth and complete descriptive reference work has existed. Fonética y fonología descriptivas de la lengua española Volumes 1 and 2 is a comprehensive reference, written in Spanish, describing the ... Read more

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  • Invasive Species and Global Climate Change

    Series series CABI Invasives Series
    This book addresses topics related to the impact of invasive species including biosecurity, demographics, species diversity and food security. It is meant for researchers, upper-level students, and policy makers and provides a factual basis for the underlying science and a discussion of that information with respect to current and future impacts and possible solutions. This book explores the nexus ... Read more

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  • Fonética y fonología descriptivas de la lengua española

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    Volume 1 of the most up-to-date and comprehensive description of the Spanish language’s phonetic and phonological systemThough there has been considerable research on Spanish phonetics and phonology, until now, there has been no in-depth and complete descriptive reference work. Fonética y fonología descriptivas de la lengua española, volumes 1 and 2, is a comprehensive reference, written in ... Read more

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  • International Capital Markets: Developments and Prospects, 1983

    Series Book 23 - Occasional Papers
    This paper provides a description and analysis of recent developments in international capital (banking and bond) markets and an assessment of market conditions and prospects for financing flows, in particular ... Read more

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    More than any other period of British literature, Romanticism is strongly identified with a single genre. Romantic poetry has been one of the most enduring, best loved, most widely read and most frequently studied genres for two centuries and remains no less so today. This Companion offers a comprehensive overview and interpretation of the poetry of the period in its literary and historical ... Read more

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    From Ecosystem Services to Spread of Disease

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