Los nuevos caminos de la lingüística

Carpe risum, de Ernesto de la Peña, es un acercamiento, a la vez respetuoso e irreverente, a los festines burlescos de la obra y vida del humanista francés de los siglos XV y XVI. En este hondo análisis, que humildemente su autor describe como "un panorama a ojo de pájaro", el políglota mexicano otorga al lector contemporáneo una visión actualizada y entretenida de Gargantúa y Pantagruel que permite empaparse del ambiente que rodeaba a este escritor galo en ocasiones poco valorado, pero fundamental para la literatura occidental.

Annotation Since the publication of the still very valuable Biblioteca histórica de la filología by Cipriano Muñoz y Manzano, conde de la Viñaza, (Madrid, 1893), our knowledge of the history of the study of the Spanish language has grown considerably. It has been the purpose of BICRES I (from the beginnings to 1600), published in 1994 in the same series, to bring already available bibliographical information together with the more recent research findings, scattered in many places, books and articles and published during the past one hundred years. Now, the second volume, covering the...

The contributions gathered in this volume explore the possible uses of Bible translations to open new perspectives in the history of Iberian Romance languages. In addition to the linguistic description of Bible translations, they provide innovative analyses of a number of morphosyntactic phenomena of high theoretical interest, thus contributing to improve our historical understanding of Castilian, Catalan and Portuguese.