Leopoldo Richter

Contains 50 short tales, featuring Tobias, a cheerful and worldly-wise character. In this four book series, the stories contain examples of the most common syntactic structures and grammatical morphology in Spanish. It details the most difficult words and expressions, and also explains idioms and colloquial expressions.

Trabajo de investigación que sale a escena, en un principio, como una introducción teórica a los cotidianos escollos que presenta el análisis de un campo semántico concreto (el de las "vías de comunicación"), pero que fue creciendo poco a poco, a la vez que se teje una apasionante urdimbre en la que el autor se sentía preso. Todos los problemas están tremendamente ligados. Algunos remiten a reexaminar las piedras fundamentales de esta disciplina. Y surge el reto: ¿se podría afrontar la tarea de ajustar la teoría del significado al engranaje de la moderna lingüística?

Alongside considerable continuity, 20th-century diachronic linguistics has seen substantial shifts in outlook and procedure from the 19th-century paradigm. Our understanding of what is really new and what is recycled owes a great debt to E. F. K. Koerner's minutely researched interpretations of the work of the field's founders and key transitional figures. At the cusp of the 21st century, some of the best known scholars in the field explore how these methodological shifts have been and continue to be played out in historical Romance, Germanic and Indo-European linguistics, as well as in work...

This systemic-functional account of Spanish, analyses how Spanish grammatical forms compare and contrast with those of English.