Los secretos de la luz

Un completo manual sobre talla en madera con instrucciones paso a paso para realizar 20 inspirados proyectos, más un manual de técnicas ilustradas para su consulta rápida.

Behind Frida Kahlo’s portraits, lies the story of both her life and work. It is precisely this combination that draws the reader in. Frida’s work is a record of her life, and rarely can we learn so much about an artist from what she records inside the picture frame. Frida Kahlo truly is Mexico’s gift to the history of art. She was just eighteen years old when a terrible bus accident changed her life forever, leaving her handicapped and burdened with constant physical pain. But her explosive character, raw determination and hard work helped to shape her artistic talent. And although he...

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...

Consumada la Modernidad, el progresivo interés por el aspecto semántico relativo a los hechos del lenguaje ha ensanchado de modo natural el límite de la descripción oracional, por tratarse de una unidad de descripción demasiado estrecha para referir fenómenos asociados al tema o tópico del discurso, tales como los de ‘coherencia’, ‘presuposición’, ‘intención’, entre otros. En razón de esto, el límite oracional se ha extendido hasta el de la ‘macroestructura’ entendida, en parte, como un nivel que permite explicar ciertas constricciones semánticas de las secuencias...