Advanced Spanish Vocabulary

La cita es, por definición, la representación lingüística de un objeto también lingüístico: otro texto. Dicha representación puede ser total o parcial, fiel o aproximada. De entre los varios mecanismos discursivos para citar, son los más conocidos y estudiados el estilo directo, el indirecto y el estilo indirecto libre. Pero hay varios más, entre los que se encuentran las citas que la autora intenta describir en este estudio; el estilo indirecto encubierto: las citas con función probatoria o «evidencial», que se usan para indicar que el conocimiento de lo dicho proviene de otra...

This intermediate- to advanced-level anthology presents an overview of Hispanic American social and political issues as reflected in contemporary literature in a variety of genres-fiction, autobiography, poetry, and a one-act play. Six thematically-based chapters contain three reading selections of varying lengths and complexity, each preceded by a brief introduction that provides information about the author, historical or cultural background about the issue being covered, and general remarks about the reading. Each reading selection is supported by a series of pre- and post-reading...

The research of this thesis was completed within the framework Chomskian's Principles and Parameters model of acquisition. A detailed analysis of individual production of null-subjects and pronouns in non-native Spanish speakers was carried out in order to determine its relationship with verbal morphology. The fact that the production data available to us for this thesis is part of the investigation project "Classroom Second Language Acquisition: Beyond Parameters," directed by the professor Juana Munoz Liceras, and that this study is a longitudinal analysis of the acquisition of Spanish by...