No es lo mismo ostentoso que ostentóreo

Since the publication of the still very valuable Biblioteca histórica de la filología by Cipriano Muñoz y Manzano, conde de la Viñaza (Madrid, 1893), our knowledge of the history of the study of the Spanish language has grown considerably. It has been the purpose of BICRES I (from the early beginnings to 1600), published in 1994, to bring together already available bibliographical information with the more recent research findings, scattered in many places, books and articles and published during the past one hundred years. BICRES II (covering the 1601–1700 period) followed in 1999....

An illustrated collection of poetry about the people who live along the border between the United States and Mexico. Presented in English and Spanish.

Alongside considerable continuity, 20th-century diachronic linguistics has seen substantial shifts in outlook and procedure from the 19th-century paradigm. Our understanding of what is really new and what is recycled owes a great debt to E. F. K. Koerner's minutely researched interpretations of the work of the field's founders and key transitional figures. At the cusp of the 21st century, some of the best known scholars in the field explore how these methodological shifts have been and continue to be played out in historical Romance, Germanic and Indo-European linguistics, as well as in work...

¿Puede usted, querido lector, pensar en las palabras adecuadas para retratar un país como el nuestro? Algunos pensarán que esta titánica labor es imposible de realizar, y no es para menos. Colombia es el único país que tiene un hombre caimán que orondo deja su pueblo y arranca para Barranquilla; aquí cualquier enfermedad se queda corta, pues la corrupción compite celosamente con las demás calamidades; al estilo de una telenovela, tuvimos un presidente dispuesto a fusilar a su propio sobrino. En fin, son tantos los sucesos que arropan la historia de nuestra patria, que es imposible...