Paradigmas y polifuncionalidad

This volume contains the Proceedings of an NEH-sponsored seminar on the above topic. The book presents the lectures by Juan Bautista de Avalle-Arce, Jorge E. Gracia, Francisco Miranda, José Rabasa, nineteen essays written by participating faculty, and twelve summaries presented by other scholars.

What cities were there in early 16th-century Spain? With how many inhabitants? Were they fortified? And how many leagues apart were they? Those are the questions that Ferdinand Columbus tried to answer in his Vocabulary containing the names of the places and kingdoms of Spain. The present edition reconstructs the "cosmographic" endeavor of Christopher Columbus’ youngest son based on two codices from the Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina of Seville.

Contains a description of all the different types of verbal periphrases used in modern peninsular Spanish. Defining periphrases as "productive verbal constructions with a partially grammaticized finite verb," the study strives to account for the partly lexical and partly grammatical status of periphrases within the theoretical framework of Functional Grammar--which views language as a tool for verbal communication rather than as an autonomous system. The study finds that, for certain complexities of periphrase usage, Functional Grammar needs to be adapted. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, ...

Esta obra es parte de una verdadera historiografía de un periodo cruento y dramático para nuestro pueblo. El libro, hasta ahora, consta de tres volúmenes: Girón: la verdadera historia, La segunda derrota: de Girón a la crisis de los cohetes, y el que reseñamos a continuación. Escritos en un estilo ameno que mantiene el interés, los libros recogen para la historia un material mucho más amplio de lo que sus títulos sugieren. Constituyen, en realidad, un bosquejo histórico de la lucha del pueblo cubano por su liberación. Vincula además todas esas etapas --que sacan del anonimato a...