Huellas de las literaturas hispanoamericanas

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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.

Cualquiera de estas historias te dará una contundente lección de vida, algo que, por supuesto, nunca está de más. Los niños aprenden aquí a verse reflejados en sí mismos para ir consolidando en su personalidad profundos valores humanos. Hay cosas que destacar aquí: todos los problemas serán resueltos por las vía pacífica. El amor saldrá ganando de todas las contiendas, y se convertirá en el motor que impulse las buenas acciones. La solidaridad será la gran protagonista en este relato sobre valientes que no puedes dejar de leer. Algunos otros valores importantes se destacan; ni...

This volume focuses on the Spanish locative verbs "poner" and "meter". By means of logistic regression analyses, the parallels and differences in the spatial relations they denote are established. The thesis also zooms in on their linguistic behavior as auxiliaries in inchoative and causative periphrases. In addition, a historical corpus study describes the grammaticalization of the verbs, starting from the 13th century up to now.