501 Spanish Verbs

Students quickly discover that learning Spanish becomes easier with this book-and-CD combination because it teaches verbs and verb usage systematically.

This video program on DVD accompanies the Intermediate Spanish series and presents specially selected cultural topics relating directly to material covered in Civilizaci n y cultura. Featuring a mix of short film (NEW to this edition), authentic news clips, and other cultural footage, the video program spans the Spanish-speaking world and provides you with a wealth of cultural perspectives.

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* Approach reflects a belief in the value of discourse analysis, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics in the fields of second language acquisition and applied linguistics. * Goal is to train teachers to teach the Spanish language as a communicative system rather than as a set of grammatical rules--therefore it includes relevant information on Spanish pragmatics and sociolinguistics. * Written entirely in Spanish. * Each chapter includes review questions and exercises. * CD-ROM integrates samples of the course material so that the readers can see and hear native speaker examples of aspects of...

Los trabajos que agrupa este volumen cubren las areas de la filologia y la linguistica espanolas, desde un punto de vista tanto historico como actual. En concreto, se presentan nuevas aportaciones a la morfologia, como la variacion interna a que da lugar el sufijo <I>-torio, sobre todo para derivar nombres de lugar y eventivos con el rasgo semantico ] durativo], y a la sintaxis, con el estudio del desplazamiento de las formas subjuntivas por las indicativas en el castellano rural del norte peninsular.<BR> Los trabajos de caracter historico se centran en los distintos procedimientos...