LingüÃstica Aplicada

What cities were there in early 16th-century Spain? With how many inhabitants? Were they fortified? And how many leagues apart were they? Those are the questions that Ferdinand Columbus tried to answer in his Vocabulary containing the names of the places and kingdoms of Spain. The present edition reconstructs the "cosmographic" endeavor of Christopher Columbus’ youngest son based on two codices from the Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina of Seville.

The Oxford Beginner's Spanish Dictionary is a brand new guide to learning Spanish. Designed specifically for native English speaking adult learners who are either learning from scratch or refreshing lost language skills, it offers an easy to use dictionary, extra help with vocabulary, and essential information on the Spanish-speaking world. The dictionary is exceptionally easy to use, because it moves away from the traditional dictionary layout. All main translations are preceeded by an equals sign so that they are instantly identifiable, and all parts of the entry are spelt out in full,...

Maximiano Cortés Moreno es Licenciado en Filología Anglogermánica, Máster en Formación de Profesores de Español como Lengua Extranjera y Doctor en Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura por la Universidad de Barcelona (España). En 1988 empezó su labor docente como profesor de lengua inglesa en institutos de Enseñanza Secundaria en España. Continuó en Eslovenia como profesor de español y de catalán. Desde 1993 imparte clases de lengua y cultura españolas, así como de didáctica del español como lengua extranjera en varias universidades de Taiwán. Desde 2002 viene colaborando...

Introducción a la lingüística española provides a systematic overview of key areas of Spanish linguistics, including the sound system, forms of words, syntactic patterns, the development of the language, and regional, social and contextual variation. Written entirely in Spanish from the viewpoint of contemporary descriptive linguistics, it employs a flexible approach that incorporates trends from different theoretical perspectives as well as the most recently published research.