Linguistic Contact in Ancient South China: The Case of Hainan Chinese, Be, and Vietnamese

Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1982

Parallelism in Kayah Li Discourse: Elaborate Expressions and Beyond

Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Discourse in Southeast Asian Languages (1995

Introduction to the Biao Min Yao language.

The Biao Min language belongs to a branch of the Yao language family that is distinct from those containing the previously-described Yu Mien and Kim Mun languages. The present article describes the phonology and morphophonemics of Biao Min, plus some diachronic background to its tone sandhi ; a Part II is also planned dealing with further diachronic questions.La langue Biao Min appartient à une division du groupe lao distincte de celtes contenant les langues déjà décrites Yu Mien et Kim Mun. Cet article décrit la phonologie et la morphophonologie du Biao Min, ainsi que le fond diachronique du sandhi tonal ; une IIème partie traitant de questions diaohroniques additionnelles est en projet.Solnit David B. Introduction to the Biao Min Yao language. In: Cahiers de linguistique - Asie orientale, vol. 14 2, 1985. pp. 175-191

Psychogeography and Well-Being

The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69627-0_58-1A psychogeographical understanding offers a contemporary view that can be concerned with finding personal connections with place; an expression of political dissent; an expression of spirituality; or a documentation and consideration of a journey. It could also be an amalgamation of any of these to greater or lesser degrees. This understanding considers the historical significance of the flâneur, the dérive, psychogeography, from the urban to the rural, and how it has and will have, significant impact on self-efficacy, self-esteem, community, identity, landscape, and above all sustainability today and tomorrow

Unnoticed apocalypse: the science fiction politics of urban crisis

The slogan ‘capitalism is crisis’ is one that has recently circulated swiftly around the global Occupy movement. From Schumpeter to Marx himself, the notion that the economic cycles instituted by capitalism require periodic crises as a condition of renewed capital accumulation is a commonplace. However, in a number of recent texts, this conception of crisis as constituting the very form of urban capitalist development itself has taken on a more explicitly apocalyptic tone, exemplified by the Invisible Committee's influential 2007 book The Coming Insurrection, and its account of what it calls simply ‘the metropolis’. ‘It is useless to wait’, write the text's anonymous authors, ‘for a breakthrough, for the revolution, the nuclear apocalypse or a social movement.… The catastrophe is not coming, it is here.’ In considering such an apocalyptic tone, this paper thus situates and interrogates the text in terms both of its vision of the metropolis as a terrain of total urbanization and its effective spatialization of the present as itself a kind of ‘unnoticed’ apocalypse: the catastrophe which is already here. It does so by approaching this not only apropos its place within contemporary debates surrounding leftist politics and crisis theory but also via its imaginative intersection with certain post-1960s science fiction apocalyptic motifs. What, the paper asks, does it mean to think apocalypse as the ongoing condition of the urban present itself, as well as the opening up of political and cultural opportunity for some speculative exit from its supposedly endless terrain