Modality in Spanish and Combinations of Modal Meanings

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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...

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En este libro se trata de ofrecer una explicación unitaria de cuatro grupos de combinaciones verbonominales del español contemporáneo como resultado de un proceso de lexicalización. Se presenta en primer lugar un estado de la cuestión. En segundo lugar, se examinan algunas características morfosintácticas que permiten delimitar los cuatro grupos. En tercer lugar, se presentan los argumentos que invitan a considerar estas combinaciones como resultado de la lexicalización. Por último, se comparan combinaciones verbonominales y verbos correspondientes.