Gramática para la composición Workbook

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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...

Three boys. Three stories. And one sport that unites them - and maybe not the one you'd expect.For as long as they can remember, best friends Mario and Carlos have talked about playing professional baseball one day like one of their idols, Rafael Soriano of the Yankees. Though they have only played the game on the streets of the neighborhood, growing up the boys often repeated the same conversation about someday wearing the pinstriped uniform and giving post-game interviews to the press - in English and Spanish! It was wishful thinking, to be sure, but common for many young boys raised in the ...

Seminar paper del año 2013 en eltema Romanística - Español, literatura, cultura general, Nota: 1,3, Universität Leipzig (Institut für Romanistik), Materia: Spanische Varietätenlinguistik, Idioma: Español, Resumen: Die vorliegende Arbeit behandelt die allgemeinen Charakteristika des Spanischen in Südamerika mit dem Fokus auf Kolumbien. Betrachtet werden hierzu Phonetik und Phonologie, Morphologie sowie Lexik. Im praktischen Teil wurde eine Umfrage durchgeführt über die bekanntesten Charakteristika des kolumbianischen Spanischen.

Este volumen se ocupa de cuestiones de linguistica teorica y aplicada. Entre las primeras se aborda un rasgo universal de la mente y el lenguaje humanos: la necesidad de clasificar el mundo que nos rodea. Sirven aqui de ejemplo las categorias gramaticales de dos lenguas muy alejadas de las indoeuropeas: las clases nominales del mancana (una lengua de Senegal) y los clasificadores nominales del chino. Ademas, se trata tambien de la composicion de palabras en espanol mediante prefijos y de los gentilicios. De las segundas dan cuenta estudios sobre dialectologia canaria, traduccion, literatura...