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Outwitting History : The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books by Aaron Lansky (2004, Hardcover)

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Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books by Aaron Lansky, 2004 Algonquin books of Chapel Hill, hardback with dust jacket, 316 pages, interior is clean and unmarked, very good condition, ISBN 1565124294, SKU 2.67.21.

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This book presents the Chinese reflexivisation system, investigating the different types of Chinese reflexive constructions and offering an analysis of these, in an attempt to integrate syntactic, morphological and discourse-related aspects of the phenomena. In Chinese, two distinct types of reflexive have been widely discussed in the literature: simplex reflexive ziji "self", which is a long-distance reflexive, and complex reflexive pronoun + ziji, such as taziji "himself", which must be locally bound. In addition, Chinese has a kind of double reflexive construction, such as ziji-benshen, and reflexive clitics zi "self" and ziwo "self". This book argues that reflexive clitics must be locally bound; and that under certain conditions, both simplex reflexive ziji and complex reflexives can be locally bound, long-distance bound, or even free in an entire sentence. This study proposes that every type of reflexive has two structures: one is an anaphoric structure, while the other is a logophoric structure. When a verb assigns an anaphoric theta role, the reflexive can have the anaphoric structure and the head of the reflexive NP is allowed to adjoin the head of the VP at LF. If a reflexive cannot receive an anaphoric theta role, it can have a logophoric structure. In the logophoric structure, the head of the reflexive DP must be a pro in order to receive the disjoint theta role from the verb.

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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
ISBN-10
1565124294
ISBN-13
9781565124295
eBay Product ID (ePID)
127389346

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Author
Aaron Lansky
Language
English
Topic
Yiddish, Books, Jewish

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Item Weight
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Book Title
Outwitting History : the Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
Lc Classification Number
Z987.L25 2004
Reviews
"A marvelous yarn, loaded with near-calamitous adventures and characters as memorable as Singer creations." -- New York Post
Copyright Date
2004
Format
Hardcover
Lccn
2004-051587
Dewey Decimal
002/.075
Intended Audience
Trade
Publication Year
2004
Dewey Edition
22
Genre
Foreign Language Study, Antiques & Collectibles, History
Number of Pages
328 Pages

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by jnedbyMay 28, 2019
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Remarkable chronicle of a man's crusade (if that's a word one can use about Yiddish books) to save, preserve and eventually provide Yiddish books to interested persons, schools and institutions. It can be touching, sad and hilarious, and sometimes on the same page. Lansky set out to save books and ended up with a tale about the people who read, saved and even wrote them. A very human tale about more than a generation of people who survived a cataclysm only to see the language that held them together nearly perish. Half the Yiddish speakers in the world perished in the Holocaust. I gave my first copy to a Jewish friend and bought another one for myself. Because it's not about the Yiddish people but about humanity.
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by scrubjaysNov 02, 2015
What one person can do to change history!!
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