Estudios de traducción e interpretación. Entornos de especialidad. Vol. II

Companion to the 2009 science fiction movie, Avatar. "This report details Pandora's alien ecosystem; its mining mother lode and topography; its flora and fauna; and the culture, language, and physiology of the native population, the aggressive hunter-gatherer race called the Na'vi. ... Also included in this manual are highly confidential and detailed descriptions of RDA [the "enemy" -- the Resources Development Administration] technology and weapons systems deployed to suppress the indigenous hostiles and defend employees agingst the dangerous Pandoran environment"--P. [4] of cover.

This selection of papers is concerned with the history of linguistics in Spain, dealing with the evolution of linguistic ideas from the Middle Ages and the European context of the linguistic debates in Spain to the 20th century, concluding with Malkiel's appraisal of Ramón Menéndez Pidal (1869-1968). The volume includes papers on Antonio Nebrija and Sanctius, probably the best-known grammarians of the Iberian peninsula, but - as the other papers suggest - there is much more to be known about the Spanish linguistic traditions. The papers in this volume were previously published in...

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...

El "Cuaderno del artista" es una obra dirigida tanto a quienes se inician en el arte de la pintura como a quienes desean profundizar en sus técnicas y procedimientos. Su pedagogía se basa en explicaciones directas y sencillas acompañadas de abundantes ejemplos clarificadores. En este título, La técnica del óleo, se desarrollan cuatro temas pictóricos distintos: la naturaleza muerta, la pintura de marinas, la pintura de figuras y el retrato. Estos son temas de gran interés para el pintor, y en estas páginas se abordan con claridad y sencillez, acudiendo a ejemplos que ponen de...