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La reducción de la calidad de la información, asociada a la velocidad de las tecnologías, está produciendo fenómenos nuevos como la tuiterización de la forma de expresión, así como de la misma información. Se reducen los contenidos, se reducen las maneras de comunicarse, se jibariza el mundo. Revolución tecnológica, predominio audiovisual, Internet, redes sociales, saturación informativa, obsesión por la inmediatez: tablets, smartphones, Twitter, Facebook, SMS, WhatsApp, Google, PowerPoint. Los contenidos son instantáneos, sensacionalistas, emotivos, huecos. Todo lo que no...

This volume sheds light upon one of the most emblematic constructions in Ibero-Romance: adverbial infinitives with specified subjects (e.g. al entrar Juan (Sp), para eles verem o resultado (Ptg)). The study attempts to fill an empirical gap and offers a cognitive-functional and comparative account on these constructions. The first part provides an overview of the notions of infinitive, subject and adverbial clauses. The second part consists of two empirical case studies. First, the use of the Portuguese inflected infinitive is shown to be sensitive to factors as the mental accessibility of...

History, achievements and cultural contributions of the well-famed institute since its foundation in 1935 by architects Federico Gomez de Orozco, Rafael Garcia Granados and Luis Mac Gregor as an Art Laboratory, inspired in the one in the University of Seville of Spain.

Alongside considerable continuity, 20th-century diachronic linguistics has seen substantial shifts in outlook and procedure from the 19th-century paradigm. Our understanding of what is really new and what is recycled owes a great debt to E. F. K. Koerner's minutely researched interpretations of the work of the field's founders and key transitional figures. At the cusp of the 21st century, some of the best known scholars in the field explore how these methodological shifts have been and continue to be played out in historical Romance, Germanic and Indo-European linguistics, as well as in work...