Los demonios y los días

With regards to historical linguistics, the study of Romance languages enjoys the privilege of a long documentation history, which, with Latin as its basis, dates back almost three thousand years. This long tradition makes it possible to analyze nearly every language-historical aspect, as well as to develop methods and test theories without having to rely on speculation. Drawing upon this rich history, Romanische Sprachgeschichte (Romance Language History) describes the systematic nature of spoken and written language in the Romance language area on the one hand, and on the other hand...

Un inclasificable elogio al acto creativo que aborda cuestiones tan heterogéneas como inconciliables: de las metopas del Partenón al toreo de Curro Romero. ¿Para qué ojos fueron creadas las enormes siluetas de Nazca? ¿Por qué los grandes creadores se empeñan en resolver aspectos de sus obras que ningún ser humano puede llegar a valorar? Con una mirada irónica, polémica y apasionada, el autor analiza este misterioso fenómeno a través de las obras maestras de la arquitectura, la pintura, el cine, la jardinería, los toros y el teatro y deduce que sus autores actuaron como si sus...

"New worlds for old words / Mundos nuevos para viejas palabras" is a collection of chapters on the theme of lexical borrowing in the languages of Western Europe with particular focus on borrowing from Latin, or from Greek via Latin, into Spanish. Such cultured, or “learnèd” borrowing—as it has sometimes been designated—, is an especially intriguing feature of the Romance languages, since they also derive from Latin. It is also of particular interest to historical linguists since it is an example of what has been called “change from above”: innovation first evidenced in the...

Taking the city as a laboratory, Fugitive Sites challenges the predictable radicality of global art projects, the usual notions of site specificity, community engagement, artistic practice and public space. Initiated in 1992 as a collaborative venture of cultural institutions in San Diego and Tijuana, inSITE commissions new work by artists from the Americas that responds to the extraordinary context of these two inextricably linked border cities, and is reinvented according to the shifting interests of artists and public institutions in Mexico. This most recent version of inSITE reconfigures...