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Sep 27, 2024 · Noun. continuum (plural continuums or continua) A continuous series or whole, no part of which is noticeably different from its adjacent parts, although the ends or extremes of it are very different from each other. A continuous extent. (mathematics) The nondenumerable set of real numbers; more generally, any compact connected metric space.
Feb 16, 2022 · Carmen E. Lamas’s new book, The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas: Literature, Translation, and Historiography (2021), argues that reading nineteenth-century Cuban and Cuban migrant writing from the vantage point of Latino studies—rather than of US American or Latin American studies—provides both a truer account of how people and texts circulated during that period and ...
- John Alba Cutler
- jalbacutler@berkeley.edu
Mar 9, 2021 · To recover this continuum of Latinidad, which is neither confined to the US or Latin American nation states nor located primarily within them, is to recover forgotten histories of the hemisphere, and to find new ways of seeing the past as we have understood it. The figures of Félix Varela, Miguel Teurbe Tolón, Eusebio Guiteras, José Martí, and Martín Morúa Delgado serve as points of ...
A dialect continuum is also present through time: you could probably have a conversation with Shakespeare, and Shakespeare could probably have a conversation with Chaucer (which I would love to see), and Chaucer could probably have a conversation with the people who fought against the Normans in 1066, and those guys could probably have a conversation with the people who wrote Beowulf, and the ...
May 4, 2021 · " The Latino Continuum is a methodical, rigorous analysis of nineteenth-century Cuban and migrant writing, and it makes a vital contribution to our understanding of Latinx literary history and culture. It will be immediately indispensable to scholars and students in Latinx, US American, and Latin American studies." -- John Alba Cutler, Latino ...
- Carmen Lamas
- Carmen Lamas, Carmen E. Lamas
- $80
- Oxford University Press
A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a series of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighboring varieties are mutually intelligible, but the differences accumulate over distance so that widely separated varieties may not be. [ 1 ] This is a typical occurrence with widely spread languages and language families ...
[31] [32] The dialects diverged from Latin at an accelerated rate and eventually evolved into a continuum of recognizably different typologies. The colonial empires established by Portugal , Spain , and France from the fifteenth century onward spread their languages to the other continents to such an extent that about two-thirds of all Romance language speakers today live outside Europe.
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