El taller

Every night the small animals of the forest gather around the old oak tree to hear a story under the stars. Tonight the oak tree tells the story of Camila, the strange iguana, who never spoke but ate flies, laid in the sun and smiled at everyone who said hello. One day Camila lost her smile and began to lose her brillant green color. When the animals discover the cause, they try to help their new friend.

La cultura del libro en la América Española siempre ha cobrado fascinación para muchas personas. Curiosidad alimentada por la idea de un Tribunal del Santo Oficio que persiguió y prohibió prácticamente todo acceso al conocimiento para los residentes de estos territorios sujetos a la normativa de la Corona Española. Sin embargo, hace décadas que el estudio de nueva documentación transformó radicalmente las valoraciones previas. En este contexto, las bibliotecas de los particulares quedaron fuera del interés pese a que estas colecciones también formaron parte de las bibliotecas...

This collection of essays discusses the linguistic categorization of semantic aspects in Spanish and their interrelations with lexicology, morphology, and syntax. From a number of different perspectives, the essays study phenomena such as lexicalization, grammaticalization, lexical and grammatical classes, compositionality, argument structure, lexical aspects, and the categories of language and reality.

Since the Foundation of The Hispanic Society of America in 1904 by Archer M. Huntington (1870-1955), there has never been an artist so closely related to his famous art collection as Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida (1863-1923). The doors of the Hispanic society had only been open for only a few months when Huntington discovered the work of Sorolla, who at the time was exhibiting at Grafton Galleries. Huntington had found in Sorolla an artist that shared the same love for Spain, its villages and habits; that is why he began organizing the exhibition that would take place a year later. They worked...