Diccionario Oxford Compact / Pocket Oxford Spanish Dictionary

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...

This volume focuses on the Spanish locative verbs "poner" and "meter". By means of logistic regression analyses, the parallels and differences in the spatial relations they denote are established. The thesis also zooms in on their linguistic behavior as auxiliaries in inchoative and causative periphrases. In addition, a historical corpus study describes the grammaticalization of the verbs, starting from the 13th century up to now.

Written by renowned experts in the field, this book provides a systematic survey of the current research situation and the need for further research on the place names of the different regions of Spain. The bilingual autonomous regions Galicia, Asturias, the Basque Country and Navarra, Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands are equally covered in the book, making it an indispensable reference not only for scholars of the Romance languages and of Basque but also for specialists in other disciplines such as cartographers, geographers, historians, archeologists, etc.

Contribuci n a la cr tica del nacionalismo cubano. Uno de los estudios m s profundos de la nacionalidad cubana y la historia de la Isla.