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The fine-grained struc­ture of the lex­i­cal area. Gen­der, appre­cia­tives and nom­i­nal suf­fix­es in Span­ish
This is the first book that presents a com­plete descrip­tion and analy­sis of the Span­ish suf­fix­es that alter the gram­mat­i­cal behav­iour of nouns and adjec­tives with­out chang­ing their gram­mat­i­cal cat­e­go­ry, sup­port­ing a fine-grained decom­po­si­tion of the syn­tac­tic area where these word class­es are defined.
In this mono­graph the read­er will find a detailed empir­i­cal descrip­tion of suf­fix­es for gen­der, mere­o­log­i­cal prop­er­ties of nouns, scalar prop­er­ties of adjec­tives and a vari­ety of nom­i­nal suf­fix­es express­ing actions, mea­sures or loca­tions, as well as an inte­gral Neo-Con­struc­tion­ist analy­sis of the syn­tac­tic struc­ture of the result­ing for­ma­tions. Framed with­in a Nanosyn­tac­tic-ori­ent­ed frame­work, this book sheds light on the nature of lex­i­cal cat­e­gories and the com­po­nents of the low syn­tac­tic struc­ture of nouns and adjec­tives. The book will be use­ful both to researchers in Span­ish lin­guis­tics or the­o­ret­i­cal mor­phol­o­gy and to advanced stu­dents of Span­ish inter­est­ed in learn­ing more about the expres­sive devices that nouns and adjec­tives allow.
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Petrar­ch and the mak­ing of gen­der in Renais­sance Italy
This book is a new his­to­ry of ear­ly mod­ern gen­der, told through the lyric poet­ry of Renais­sance Italy. In the evo­lu­tion of West­ern gen­der roles, the Ital­ian Renais­sance was a water­shed moment, when a con­flu­ence of cul­tur­al devel­op­ments dis­rupt­ed cen­turies of Aris­totelian, bina­ry think­ing. Men and women liv­ing through this upheaval exploit­ed Petrarchism’s capac­i­ty for sub­jec­tive expres­sion and exper­i­men­ta­tion — as well as its sta­tus as the most acces­si­ble of gen­res – in order to imag­ine new gen­dered pos­si­bil­i­ties in realms such as mar­riage, war, and reli­gion. One of the first stud­ies to exam­ine writ­ing by ear­ly mod­ern Ital­ian men and women togeth­er, it is also a rev­o­lu­tion­ary tes­ta­ment to poetry’s work in the world. These poets’ works chal­lenge the tra­di­tion­al bound­aries drawn around lyric’s util­i­ty. They show us how poems could be sites of resis­tance against the per­vad­ing social order – how they are texts capa­ble not only of record­ing social his­to­ry, but also of shap­ing it.
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