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Monuments to Mestizaje and the Commemoration of Racial Democracy in Puerto Rico
Abstract In this paper, I argue that monuments to mestizaje (miscegenation) in Puerto Rico reaffirm the myth of a harmonious mixture between the White Spaniard, Black African, and Indigenous Taíno. This racial triad, originally conceived in the nineteenth century, was institutionalized in 1956 by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture to legitimize the ...
Rafael V. Capó García
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Abstract In Brazil, the epicenter of the Zika crisis, brown, black, and indigenous poor women living in municipalities with scarce resources were disproportionally affected. The gendered consequences of the epidemic exposed how intersectional lenses are central to understand the impact of public health emergencies in the lives of women and girls.
Ilana Ambrogi +2 more
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A Cyclic Agree account of the Romance faire–infinitive causative: New evidence from Catalan
Abstract Catalan, like Italian and French, displays (notwithstanding certain complications) a pattern in causatives under facere such that the causee can be realized as dative only where its complement is “transitive.” We propose an analysis of this pattern based on Cyclic Agree.
Anna Pineda, Michelle Sheehan
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From Cosmopolitan to Vernacular in the Language Sciences: A Global History Perspective
Abstract Sheldon Pollock's justly famous work on cosmopolitan orders and processes of vernacularization in the worlds of Latinity and Sanskrit invites questions of a comparative and global‐historical character. I will raise such questions in the context of the Persianate cosmopolitan order, especially as exemplified by the early modern Ottoman Empire ...
Michiel Leezenberg
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The linguistic characterisation of Galdós’s characters in his last play, Santa Juana de Castilla
Abstract In this work I propose to examine the linguistic characterisation of the characters in Galdós’s last play, Santa Juana de Castilla (Saint Joanna of Castile, 1918). The analysis will show that in addition to the use of archaic language, the purpose of which may be to evoke the era, the linguistic style of the play is characterised by the use of
Miguel Á. Perdomo‐Batista
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LAS PERÍFRASIS VERBALES DESDE LA HISTORIOGRAFÍA LINGÜÍSTICA: CONTRASTE ENTRE GRAMÁTICAS ESPAÑOLAS E HISPANOAMERICANAS DE LA 1ª MITAD DEL SIGLO XX [PDF]
Nuestro objetivo es analizar el tratamiento de las perífrasis verbales en un corpus de gramáticas del español publicadas en Hispanoamérica y en España durante la primera mitad del siglo XX.
María Martínez-Atienza
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En el marco de las investigaciones historiográficas llevadas a cabo por los autores de este estudio, han salido a la luz dos gramáticas de español para italianos de las que no se halla mención, ni entre las obras de ese tipo posteriores, ni en ningún ...
Félix San Vicente, Hugo E. Lombardini
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Nos séculos XVI e XVII, jesuítas escreveram gramáticas de duas das línguas indígenas faladas no Brasil colonial: José de Anchieta e Luís Figueira descreveram o tupi antigo em 1595 e ca.
Ronaldo de Oliveira Batista
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El artículo analiza las modalidades discursivas mediante las cuales dos diarios argentinos: La Nación y Clarín se consolidaron como opositores al primer kirchnerismo (2003-2007).
Julia de Diego
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The aim of this article is to present contrastively the different types of grammatical categorization of the lexical item adverb in a Brazilian and in two German grammars.
Janaína Lopes Salgado
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