A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish

Sonido y sentido lifts the learning of Spanish pronunciation for American English-speaking students to a new level, with support of an accompanying CD. Written in Spanish by a native speaker who is a leading figure in the field of Spanish phonology, this introduction to Spanish phonetics and phonology will improve both the pronunciation and understanding of spoken Spanish by demonstrating the specific ways in which the sound pattern of Spanish differs from English. Notable in that it explains the why of pronunciation with specific information on how the sounds of Spanish are organized--it...

El presente libro constituye un estudio de las estructuras copulativas en español mediadas por los verbos ser y estar como expresión de dos modos ónticos. El enfoque es semiolingüístico y pone en funcionamiento un modelo dinámico en espiral que hace posible la ubicación sistemática de las diferentes construcciones de ser y estar, sean éstas predicativas, copulativas o perifrásticas, presentándolas como discontinuidades de un continuo. El resultado de la investigación demuestra la existencia de un esquema cognitivo y una estructura enunciativa específica para sendos verbos. Esto...

Utilizing native speakers, this guide offers a quintessential course in Spanish. Here, listeners will perfect their pronunciation and listening skills.

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.