Drop boring language courses and learn Spanish with this colorful, info-packed course!Practice Makes Perfect: Beginning SpanishThis dynamic package features:An interactive program with more than 400 dialogues and audio exercisesThe book provides extensive written exercises in su…
This thesis investigates bare singular nouns from a cross-linguistic perspective, with an emphasis on Spanish. While there has been considerable work on bare plural and bare mass nominals, there is, in comparison, little work on bare singulars and this dissertation aims to ll th…
"Confident and authoritative, Well-Written and balanced, provocative and controversial: this is an excellent book, a call to arms and action, that all shapers and readers of literary canons should study with care."--David T. Gies University of Virginia" "What is canon and why do…
From the craggy Catalan coastline to the undulating, red-soiled hills of Andaluc?a, the diversity of the Spanish countryside is without rival. Its cuisine directly reflects this landscape, with each region celebrating its own ingredients and culinary traditions. In Spain, long-t…
Saint James Apostle has been historically associated with his predications in the Iberian Peninsula. His cult started in the medieval times and has prolonged until the present, where he is considered the patron Saint of Spain. The construction and promotion of this symbol has be…
Wooden casks served as essential tools for economic development for thousands of years by storing and transporting various commodities. Though they no longer play as significant of a role for commerce in the modern era, their utility is still remembered because of their long-las…
This thesis investigates the causes of gender and number agreement errors in learners of both Arabic and Spanish as second languages. Data was collected from each of these groups during beginner level language courses at a university. There were a total of eight tests. The first…
The purpose of this study is to examine the communication issues and loss of cultural capital that monolingual English-speaking Mexican-American children face in order to communicate with their monolingual Spanish-speaking Mexican grandmothers due to language loss. This study de…
The Uses of Saladin in Medieval and Early Modern Literature The Kurdish sultan Salâh ad-Dîn Yûsuf ibn Ayyûb (1138-1193), known as "Saladin" in English-speaking countries, conquered Fatimid Egypt, annexed Syria, and retook much of the territory of the Latin Kingdom in Palestine, …
This dissertation is focused on socio-historical approaches to language change and lexical loss, particularly those connected with standardization, language policy and ideology. The study sheds light on the sociolinguistic effects that language standardization mechanisms have pl…
This dissertation explores two thirteenth century hagiographic poems by Gonzalo de Berceo, Vida de San Millán de la Cogolla and Vida de Santo Domingo de Silos, and two seventeenth century hagiographic comedias by Lope de Vega, El santo negro Rosambuco de la ciudad de Palermo and…
Juan Pablo Villalobos has exposed the life of a Mexican drug lord through the eyes of Tochtli. The child narrator reveals the secrets of his druglord father. Yolcaut has a comfortable lifestyle for himself and his son. The contentment ends when Tochtli stumbles upon a secret abo…
Inspired by entertaining, opinionated voices with debatable, controversial messages I wrote "Sacramento." EVA RIVERA, a 32 year old Honduran poet is captured and incarcerated by the "Maduros Guerrilla" due to her controversial political activism through a network called "Las Hij…
The purpose of this study is to track the diachronic development of exemplar clusters formed by the adjectives in the Spanish expression of becoming quedar(se) + ADJ (e.g. quedar(se) solo 'to be left alone', quedar(se) espantado 'to get scared'). This approach applies the same s…
As the oldest variety of Spanish in the United States, New Mexican Spanish has merited a sizable body of descriptive literature. However, there is still a dearth of studies on its history. Consequently, many of the earlier approaches perpetuate the belief that New Mexican Spanis…
This dissertation analyses the role of popular music in contemporary Spanish culture. The eighties were a fascinating period of Spanish history, as the country was making its transition from dictatorship to democracy, and there were high national and international expectations c…
The formation of the Spanish nation and empire reverberates in its 16 th- and 17th-century literature, as the so-called "Reconquest" of the Iberian Peninsula by the Northern, Christian kingdoms (8th-15 th centuries) served to create both new national territory and also an identi…
Considering which Spain happened to be a receiving of external investment to an investing country in the foreign, the interest arises to investigate the effect that this exit to the outside generates in the companies acquired in a third country. In this context, it has been sele…
