Las expresiones causales y finales

Text of a speech given November 27, 1853 in Madrid, on the occasion of Baralt's acceptance to the Real Academia Española.

La asunción de la idea de argumento o actante ha llevado a la aparición de nuevos complementos que se distinguen del grupo en el que anteriormente estaban acogidos por el simple hecho de ser argumentales: algunos complementos circunstanciales van a pasar al grupo de los suplementos o complementos preposicionales; complementos indirectos dejan de serlo para ser dativos o CI2 y algunos otros argumentos, antes simples predicativos o complementos del nombre entran en un bombo que busca nuevos nombres con el derecho que le otorga su carácter argumental, ya sea en relación al sustantivo, al...

"This volume (written entirely in Spanish, with English abstracts) contains 17 studies on a variety of aspects of Spanish in the United States, including topics such as: a socio-demographic analysis of the US Hispanic population, bilingual first language acquisition of English and Spanish, cross-generational maintenance of Spanish, steps toward a dialectology of US Spanish, dialect contact in the United States, conceptual convergence with English in the speech of US Hispanics, Spanglish as an identity marker, language policies in the US health delivery system to Hispanics, and several...

This text provides a comprehensive review of vocabulary and grammar and offers students a diversity of topics and perspectives to encourage critical thinking and inspire collaboration and discussion. Literary sections help improve students' reading comprehension abilities.