Practising Spanish Grammar

This third edition of PRACTISING SPANISH GRAMMAR offers you a wide variety of exercises that put Spanish grammar into practice so you can understand better how the language is used today. Thoroughly updated, PRACTISING SPANISH GRAMMAR THIRD EDITION includes: a glossary that explains grammatical terms clearly, providing you with a useful reference guide to the tools of the language level indicators with all exercises to help you progress at your own pace translations for key words within the exercises so you can work without having to stop and refer to a dictionary answers to all the exercises ...

A Spanish-English, English-Spanish dictionary containing over 600,000 entries, which provides usage examples, grammar sections, and conjugation tables for regular and irregular English verbs.

The book studies the relation between the avant-garde and graphic humour in two critical historical periods: the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the early years of the Cuban Revolution (1959-1961). It focuses on the so-called war magazines in Spain on the Republican side (No Veas, Trincheras, and LEsquella de la Torratxa,among others) and the Francoist side (Vértice and La Ametralladora). In the part devoted to Cuba, the analysis covers the newspaper Revolución and the avant-garde humour magazine El Pitirre, which ran simultaneously to the cultural supplement Lunes de Revolución and...

The book offers a panchronic analysis of queísmo, one of the oldest variational phenomena in Spanish syntax, from the Classical era to this day. Within the framework of historical sociolinguistics and on the empirical basis of a broad corpus of texts close to the pole of immediacy, the study analyzes the factors that have determined this variation at various points in time.

Esta obra esta dedicada al estudio de la expresion del tiempo y el espacio en la lengua espanola, dos dominios conceptuales fundamentales de la reflexion y el pensamiento humanos. El volumen reune un total de veintiun trabajos que tratan de estas dos nociones desde distintas perspectivas de analisis. De acuerdo con las unidades que se estudian, el libro se divide en tres partes: la primera esta dedicada a cuestiones de morfosintaxis, la segunda a semantica, tanto gramatical como lexica, y la tercera al analisis del discurso y a otros aspectos relacionados con la pragmatica. Pese a la...