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ItemConstructive Case: Evidence from Australian Languages(CSLI Publications, 1998-01-01)Australian Aboriginal languages have many interesting grammatical characteristics that challenge some of the central assumptions of current linguistic theory. These languages exhibit many unusual morphosyntactic characteristics that have not yet been adequately incorporated into current linguistic theory. This volume focuses on the complex properties of case morphology in these nonconfigurational languages, including extensive case stacking and the use of case to mark tense/aspect/mood. While problematic for many syntactic approaches, these case properties are given a natural and unified account in the lexicalist model of constructive case developed in this book, which allows case morphology to construct the larger syntactic context independently of phrase structure.
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Item[Review of the book] Concrete flowers: a novel, by Wilfried N'Sonde (translated by Karen Lindo)(Taylor and Francis Group, 2021-10-02)
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ItemTransgressing Literary Norms in Véronique Tadjo’s En compagnie des hommes(Brill, 2020-07-01)
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ItemIntroduction: Postcolonial realms of memory in the francophone world(Liverpool University Press, 2016-01-06)In September 2020, the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, announced plans to unveil a statute of Solitude, a former slave who fought against the French reinstatement of slavery in Guadeloupe in 1802. Solitude was arrested during the revolt, sentenced to death, and hanged. The inauguration of a statue in her memory would constitute the first statue of a black woman to be put up in the French capital.
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ItemNo Preview Available‘L’Identité antillaise de Frantz Fanon, selon Raphaël Confiant’(Presses universitaires des Antilles, 2021-01-04)This article will examine the dual Antillean-Algerian identity of Frantz Fanon, as imagined by Raphaël Confiant in L’Insurrection de l’âme : Frantz Fanon, vie et mort du guerrier-silex (2017). Confiant describes the text as an imagined autobiography of Fanon because it combines a third-person, factual account of Fanon’s career as a psychiatrist in Algeria with more personal reflections about his Antillean childhood, recounted from the perspective of the imagined ‘I’. In the text Confiant emphasizes Fanon’s role in the Antillean resistance, an underexplored episode of Fanon’s life which nevertheless was crucial in the formation of his anticolonial thought. The article will analyse the literary techniques Confiant uses to highlight Fanon’s great sacrifice, while also arguing that the text is a salient example of the concept of ‘nœuds de mémoire’ by Debarati Sanyal, Max Silverman and Michael Rothberg. The Caribbean and Algerian memories of Fanon’s life and work do not compete with each other; rather, they complement each other.
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ItemTeaching and Studying the Lute: International Conference Bremen 2019(Deutsche Lautengesellschaft and Lute Society of America, 2021-11-11)"The curiosity to hear music of ages past played on original instruments or historical copies has become one of the most significant recreative movements in recent cultural history. Thanks to the initial experimental work of pioneers over a century ago, contemporary music culture now values listening to music of past ages with the ears of those who first heard it. We understand it as similar to the sensory vitality that is restored into old paintings when centuries of varnish and tarnish are removed. Early experimentation was transformed into expertise, and historical performance practice has grown to become a multi-million dollar industry. The lute is a principal player on this revivalist stage and is now taught in many conservatories and music academies throughout the world. This book, based on a conference held in Bremen in September 2019, explores themes that pertain to teaching an ancient instrument in a modern institutional setting and the pedagogical challenges for both teaching and learning. It encompasses a discussion of aspects of modern teaching practice (Pascale Boquet, Jakob Lindberg, John Griffiths), the inner workings of historical technique (Paul O’Dette, Nigel North), improvisation and continuo playing (Joachim Held, Xavier Díaz-Latorre, Bor Zuljan), using the right instrument (Michael Lowe), and the continuing exploration of newly rediscovered repertoire (Franco Pavan)."
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ItemNo Preview AvailableModernism and Identity: The Subject of Madame Bovary(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021)This article reads Flaubert's Madame Bovary as a work of 'modernist pedagogy': whereas recent readers, such as Rancière, and Vallury in MLN 134:4, understand Flaubert as an author of disidentification and impersonality, I read his work in terms of a dynamic of disidentification and reidentification, drawing on contemporary theories of 'practical identity' (Korsgaard, Hägglund). Flaubert's modernist pedagogy disidentifies the reader's immersion in the fictional world so as to promote reflection on the self-defeating ways in which his characters define themselves, and solicits this reader's cultivation of a reflexive attitude towards identity as a revisable and social activity, beyond the failings of identity Madame Bovary depicts.
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ItemLD Tools and Methods Summit Report( 2016)This document provides an overview of the main points arising from discussion at the Language Documentation Tools and Methods Summit (http://bit.ly/LDsummit2016) held at the University of Melbourne on 1-3 June 2016 and convened by Nick Thieberger and Simon Musgrave for the Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, funded by the Australian Research Council. Invited participants were asked to consider key issues that were pre-circulated and then prepare discussion points for the meeting. Each theme leader took notes and they are summarised below, with links to the original notes also provided below. There is necessarily some overlap between the reports on group discussions.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableThe AICCM Bulletin, Volume 37.1 Editorial(Informa UK Limited, 2016-01-02)
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ItemARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language: Indigenous Linguistic & Cultural Heritage Ethics Document(ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, 2017)A significant part of the Centre’s research is reliant on the participation of indigenous communities in Australia and the Asia-Pacific, and actively contributes to the transmission and safeguarding of important cultural, linguistic and historical information. The Centre recognises the right of indigenous communities and individuals to maintain, control, protect and develop their traditional knowledge and cultural expressions, and the inherent ownership they have over this intellectual property. The Centre also recognises that communities and individuals within the region hold different views as to what these rights entail. Research conducted by Centre staff and students at the collaborating institutions is subject to approval by the respective institutional human research ethics committees. These statutory committees review and approve research involving Indigenous people with specific reference to Values and Ethics: Guidelines for Ethical Conduct in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Research (NHMRC 2003), and AIATSIS Code of Ethics for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research (AIATSIS 2021), plus the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research (NHMRC, ARC, AVCC 2007) and ask researchers to consider expectations in Keeping Research on Track (NHMRC 2006). However, the CoE acknowledges that simply adhering to institutional requirements does not entail an ethical outcome, and we endorse the NHMRC’s statement that it “is possible for researchers to ‘meet’ rule-based requirements without engaging fully with the implications of difference and values relevant to their research. The approach advanced in these guidelines is more demanding of researchers as it seeks to move from compliance to trust.” (NHMRC 2003: 4)