Vicente Blasco Ibañez

En los anos sesenta, la linguista Maria Teresa Fernandez de Miranda emprendio un estudio sobre siete variantes del zapoteco, una familia de lenguas otomangues del estado de Oaxaca, con la finalidad de reconstruir el sistema fonologico del protozapoteco. El estudio quedo suspendido por el fallecimiento prematuro de la autora en 1966. El manuscrito fue revisado por Doris A. Bartholomew en los anos subsecuentes y, aunque no fue publicado, los datos lograron circular entre algunos investigadores del zapoteco. Con unos 430 conjuntos de cognadas y poco mas de un millar de formas reconstruidas, El...

The editors and fourteen other research linguists discuss--in English and in Spanish--the African influence on Caribbean phonology, dominant sociolinguistic attitudes in Puerto Rico, and historico-legal aspects of bilingualism in colonial Hispanic America.

Excerpt from Al Doctor Don Juan Luis Lopez, Después de Treze Años de Estudios Mayores en la Universidad de Zaragoza About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition....

Designed for use in advanced composition courses, this text helps students develop abilities in composition tasks that reflect the kind of writing students are generally asked to perform as Spanish majors and minors. This revision responds to the growing interest in the development of functional, purposeful language skills, to the findings of writing research, and to the helpful reactions of those who have used this best-selling textbook throughout the years..