Treinta años de cine, política y memoria en la Argentina

This book offers an in-depth analysis of the pretérito perfecto compuesto, one of the Spanish verb forms displaying the greatest variation in use. The study discusses its temporal, aspectual and modal dimensions and argues that the perfect tense used in the Romance languages can be understood as a temporal category expressing both simultaneity and anteriority. Finally, the author analyzes the different dialectal forms used in today’s Spanish.

En los últimos años, la figura de Miguel Jacinto Meléndez ha ido cobrando un reconocimiento cada vez mayor dentro del panorama de la pintura madrileña del primer tercio del siglo XVIII, un periodo de transición entre el Siglo de Oro y la creación de la Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, más complejo, rico y novedoso de lo que se pensaba. En sus cuadros hay una curiosa fusión de tradición y modernidad, de fidelidad a las enseñanzas de la pintura barroca madrileña, sobre todo en la de temática religiosa, junto a una clara influencia en el retrato de los gustos imperantes en...

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...

The objective of the book is to resolve one of the many enigmas posed by the history of Ibero-Romance dialects in general and Spanish in particular - the strange palatalization (unconditioned, sporadic and incomplete) of /s/. Over and above this central concern, the book also pursues a fundamentally theoretical aim inspired by two preoccupations of a metalinguistic nature, the delimitation of historical linguistics and the circumstantial nature of linguistic investigation.