EMS Translator Field Guide

Órbita 1 - (color verde): presentación de la primera situación, muestra de lengua y explotación de exponentes funcionales; Órbita 2 (color laranja): presentación de la segunda situación, muestra de lengua y explotación de exponentes funcionales.

Este trabajo presenta una introducción al análisis de la oración simple inglesa siguiendo un enfoque primordialmente funcional. Como base teórica para el análisis se parte del concepto de «diátesis» tal y como lo plantearon los lingüistas del círculo de Leningrado en los años setenta (Mel’cuk, Jolodovic, Khrakovsky y Uspenskij), retomado en Mel’cuk (1993) dentro del marco de la meaning Text Grammar. Para el estudio de ciertas diátesis resultativas que no pueden explicarse partiendo del concepto de valencia, se asume una aproximación construccional. Todos los presupuestos...

From vulgar insults to religious oaths, colloquialisms to clichés, the personality and passion of a language can be found in its slang. Spanish is no exception, as the McGraw-Hill Diccionario del Argot makes clear. This monolingual Spanish dictionary provides the most authoritative reference to all aspects of non-standard Spanish, with more than 12,000 entries supported by 20,000 citations. The broad range of sources, from literature to newspapers and TV, reflects the full spectrum of contemporary usage in Spain. For scope and depth as well as bibliographic reference, this is an essential...

What cities were there in early 16th-century Spain? With how many inhabitants? Were they fortified? And how many leagues apart were they? Those are the questions that Ferdinand Columbus tried to answer in his Vocabulary containing the names of the places and kingdoms of Spain. The present edition reconstructs the "cosmographic" endeavor of Christopher Columbus’ youngest son based on two codices from the Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina of Seville.