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This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the conference »Palenque, Cartagena y Afro-Caribe conexiones históricas y lingüísticas, Cartagena, Colombia«, held at the University of Cartagena in late 1996. The volume features 17 articles by leading figures in the fields of Afro-Hispanic linguistics, creolistics, history, and anthropology. It reflects the state of the art on Palenquero research, and is representative of scholars' special interests in Palenquero.

The main objective of this work was to obtain an overview of the Roman monetary circulation in Gallaecia following the road network that crossed this territory in Roman times. With a historical and economic emphasis, this volume aims to understand the process of monetization within the economy of the Galicians and Asturians and the ways in which the phenomenon occurs. Of particular importance is the fact that these people were never minting currency so the monetization process was not provoked by civic institutions but through contact with people and goods coming from outside the territory....

El ejercicio de cualquier profesión sanitaria conlleva la obligación de conocer exhaustivamente los últimos hallazgos científicos para asegurar la eficiencia y eficacia en la toma de decisiones terapéuticas. Es, por tanto, necesario el dominio de las principales fuentes de rigurosa información científica, así como el manejo y preservación de los datos obtenidos. El manual “Documentación en Ciencias de la Salud” plantea una introducción a las fuentes de información científica, presentando las principales tipologías documentales y las estrategias de búsqueda y técnicas de...

Research on Spanish in the United States is intended for use in courses, as well as by scholars and researchers interested in the area. The 29 original articles are organized into sections on interpreting; historical perspectives; borrowings of words and phrases; codeswitching, narratives, and discourse; sociolinguistics and pragmatics; phonology, morphology, and syntax; and language attitudes and planning. Many of the chapters focus on regional aspects of Spanish in the US, ranging from sociolinguistic issues among Dominicans in New York and Cubans in Miami to the adoption and adaptation of...