Word: syntax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students scatter for dinner, some heading to a concentrator's meeting at the Union, others going to more private haunts. But at 7:30 p.m., Bergvall is once more in the departmental library, this time to lead a review section on syntax for General Education 109; "Language and Human Nature." The previous night, she spent three hours working with a student on the fine points of Mohawk syntax. Tonight, though, it is only an hour, as the students ready for a midterm and have mostly technical questions...
When she can do it, her own research involves the cataloguing of Kikuyu syntax, with the help of a native speaker. She also reads current theses on the syntax of related languages like Swahili, and works on her own framework for a Kikuyu syntax...
...More collects Rooney's recent loose change. This compilation of syndicated columns is refreshingly freed from its predecessor's videoese syntax and pictorial tricks. Here the humor is literate, affecting and familiar. Rooney rolls up his sleeves, hits his 1920-model Underwood, and writes about his native suburbia with the exhilaration of a button-down surrealist...
...avuncular pipe smoker in Moscow was wielding it as a genocidal bludgeon. Certainly Stalin was not typecast as a satanic maniac. Hitler was, and his regime paraded itself as a national theater of cruelty. The black leather and stainless steel, the epileptic rhetoric-these were the props and syntax of a most histrionic villainy. At stage center was a master psychotic, whose depths and demons the world still wants to decipher. What actor has played Stalin? What actor would resist the chance to play Hitler...
...poem's structural twists are made in their content rather than in their syntax: Wright moves much more quickly from localized scenes to global concepts in the prose poems than elsewhere. In "On Having My Pocket Picked In Rome," he writes...