Curso de vela

Catalog of an exhibition held at The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, December 8, 1990-March 3, 1991.

Giovanni Adamo, Manuel Alvar Ezquerra, M. Teresa Cabré, M. Pilar Perea, Luis Fernando Lara, Josep Marco and Antón Santamarina reflect on the evolution of lexicography with the application of new technologies and propose an outlook on the progresses achieved in this area. The study not only focuses on Hispanic languages, but also on other Romance languages, by introducing Italian and French perspectives.

This in-depth look at Latin American art explores the complexity of the contemporary aesthetic and cultural milieu in this vast and diverse region of the world, focusing on a critical re-reading of the Baroque in Latin America and its curious function as an important cultural metaphor. The diversity of artists represented--hailing from South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the United States--serves to critique and recuperate this concept of the Baroque that has become increasingly clichéd and misunderstood. With art by Ruben Ortiz Torres, Miguel Calderon, Rochelle Costi, Arturo Duclos,...

The book presents a selection of papers on syntactic variation from different theoretical and methodological points of view. As such, it contributes to a process of reflection on the dialectical relationship between theoretical explanation and empirical description. In the first part, the authors discuss the use of corpora in syntactic variation studies. The rest of the book presents some new approaches to a number of controversial topics. Part Two concentrates on word order, information structure, and its phonological realization, while Part Three enlarges on variations in the encoding of...