El libro del buen hablar

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.

Modern, original fiction for learners of English. When the wife of a prominent surgeon dies suddenly in the hospital emergency room of Mercy Hospital in Milwaukee, USA, Dr Maxine Cassidy suspects murder. Maxine is determined to find the killer and starts an investigation of her own. However, when someone tries to kill her, she begins to wonder which of her medical colleagues she can trust.

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...

Marruecos protagoniza desde finales del siglo XX un esfuerzo sin parangón por normalizar la escritura y el sistema gramatical de su lengua vernácula, el árabe marroquí. Y ello es así merced a una serie de propuestas concretas para su estandarización, mediante la recopilación y la creación de textos en árabe marroquí, o bien a través de la traducción desde otros idiomas. Profesores y profesionales de la educación han venido a reforzar esta nueva realidad al defender la necesidad de enseñar –al menos en la Educación Primaria– en la lengua materna de los marroquíes: el árabe ...