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This volume offers an in-depth investigation of causative constructions in contemporary Spanish, with a special emphasis on lability. Catering to students and researchers of Linguistics, Geolinguistics, Romance Linguistics and Sociolinguistics alike, it is the first study of lability in Spanish – a phenomenon more common in English or in Caucasian languages.

TEMAS, Second Edition is the pioneering text which provides opportunities for students to effect change in the world beyond the confines of their classrooms through the use of their emerging linguistic skills in real life challenges. The pedagogical foundations as well as its thematic orientation are maintained in the second edition, while authentic language use through interactive real-world tasks remains at the core of the program. TEMAS is committed to its goal of preparing learners of Spanish for professional and social interactions with native speakers in the global community, both in...

En este trabajo estudiamos los valores evaluativos expresados por construcciones perifrásticas españolas de significado aspectual, así como las equivalencias alemanas de las construcciones en esos contextos concretos. Utilizamos un corpus de ejemplos bilingües (narrativa) que contempla ambas direcciones de traducción. Dedicamos los primeros capítulos a los conceptos de Aspectualidad y Evaluación. La exposición de los valores evaluativos identificados para cada construcción comprende: a) análisis de las características aspectuales de la construcción en ese contexto concreto, b)...

This intermediate Spanish program emphasizes skill building through five coordinated components: grammar, literary readings, cultural readings, an activities manual, and a workbook/lab manual. The core text provides a comprehensive review of grammar and a communicative, interactive focus with realia, class polls, and storytelling activities. The literary reader contains essays, short stories, plays, and poetry from some of the major authors of the Hispanic world. The cultural reader provides students with a broad overview of Hispanic culture and society while helping them to develop reading...