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This intensive course is expressly designed to lead the adult beginner to a comprehensive knowledge of Spanish. The course gives balanced attention to the four key language skills: the development of listening comprehension and speaking skills is supported by quality audio materials recorded by native speakers, while answer keys support written work and grammar-acquisition exercises, and facilitate independent study. Authentic written materials develop important receptive skills and encourage the transition to independent reading. - Based on a style of Spanish easily understood by most...

La obra examina el impacto que la semántica verbal, en concreto la telicidad y la afectación, ejerce sobre el marcado diferencial de objeto (MDO) en español. El trabajo persigue dos objetivos: (i) establecer si los factores mencionados producen realmente el impacto en el MDO que se les ha atribuido; y (ii) comprobar si dicho impacto puede documentarse en etapas previas del español. Para ello se han realizado dos estudios: un cuestionario de elección forzada y un análisis diacrónico de corpus. Los resultados de ambos estudios han señalado en ambos casos un claro efecto de la...

"The tests offer practice in all four papers of the exam : reading and use of English, writing, listening and speaking"-- Back cover.

This monograph focuses on modality in Spanish. It presents the theoretical approach to this category formulated by Bohumil Zavadil and, consequently, it analyses its possible application to Spanish. We concentrate on specific areas of the Spanish modal system where two modal meanings combine. Theoretical analyses are combined with corpus-based studies concentrating on the choice of mood or contextual interpretation of selected constructions. We veryfied that areas where two modal meanings meet are a natural part of the Spanish modal system and that the combination of modal meanings has...