Las fallas de Valencia: Mucho más que un sueño

An elderly woman who uses the title 'Countess' to live a life of leisure and luxury refuses to sacrifice her lifestyle as she grows old. When she is unable to travel on her own, she convinces her shy and unadventurous nurse to accompany her on the trip of a lifetime. From the series Español con guiones, a reader series based on original film scripts that invite intermediate learners to engage with the Spanish language in a modern and accessible context. Each reader features an original story, told using the dialogue and stage direction of a film script.

This advanced Spanish grammar text, written with a strong linguistic perspective, is intended both for upper level grammar courses as well as for introductory courses in Spanish linguistics. It focuses in particular on those rules of the Spanish language that explain syntax and its components, especially those that are traditionally difficult for students of Spanish. The flexible organization of the text will allow the instructor to cover chapters (and material within chapters) in a manner that best serves his/her curricular objectives. In addition, the combination of mechanical and creative...

Trabajo Universitario del año 2003 en eltema Romanística - Español, literatura, cultura general, Universität Hamburg, Idioma: Español, Resumen: Zagona (2002) discute las propriedades sintácticas características de las lenguas del sujeto nulo tales como el español o el italiano. Para ilustrar ilustrar estas propriedades sintácticas la autora compara datos provenientes de lenguas del sujeto nulo tales como el español con datos provenientes de otras lenguas tales come el inglés. Según Jaeggli (1982) y Rizzi (1992) la opción del uso de sujetos nulos (la caída del sujeto) representa...

Accompanied by audio exercises and downloadable mini-dialogs for practice in usage and review, offers 555 fully conjugated verbs, current idioms and expressions for each verb, extended usage examples, and more than 2,500 verbs cross-referenced to conjugation models.

The present study aims at offering an overview of Spanish-Portuguese (and Spanish-Galician-Portuguese) language contact, both in Europe and in America. It pays a special attention to the history of linguistic interferences in each region, examining how and when lexical borrowings entered the Spanish language and how they disseminated across the Spanish-speaking world.