Modality in Spanish and Combinations of Modal Meanings

A combined text that meets the needs of second-year intermediate courses in Spanish. Part I reviews Spanish grammar, in Spanish, with oral and written exercises and brief cultural readings. Part II offers five complete stories and one play by Hispanic authors from Latin America, the U.S., and Spain. The program addresses the problem of both ``anglo'' and ``hispanic'' students.

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.

Written entirely in Spanish, this is the ideal introduction to Spanish linguistics for students. Using clear explanations, it covers all the basic concepts required to study the structural aspects of the Spanish language - phonetics and phonology, morphology and syntax - as well as the history of Spanish, its dialects and linguistic variation. This second edition incorporates new features designed to enhance its usefulness for classroom teaching: chapters have been added on the sociolinguistics of Spanish in the USA, and on semantics and pragmatics. The chapter on syntax has been considerably ...

Documento del año 2016 en eltema Romanística - Español, literatura, cultura general, , Idioma: Español, Resumen: Cabe recordarlo, como ya lo tenemos señalado más de una vez, el adjetivo funcional o sintáctico, también denominado adjetivo impropio, adjetivo provisional u ocasional por los funcionalistas, constituye la segunda gran familia de los adjetivos, en global. Mejor, es ante todo fruto o resultado de esa teoría coetánea de la Transposición, inaugurada, como lo vimos, en el siglo XX por Charles Bally y elevada a su máxima perfección por el eximio lingüista Lucien Tesnière, ...