El área de estudio de la Filología Románica comprendía en su origen las provincias romanas de Africa, Numidia y Mauretania, como parte de una
Romania submersa, territorios donde el latín había dejado de hablarse en un cierto tiempo por diversos factores históricos, sobre todo migraciones. Entre los siglos VI y X d. C. se produce un gran cambio…[Read more]

A concrete problem is addressed in this presentation: why vascones and vascos have been identified and why it has been assumed that the language of the seconds, Vascuence, Vasco or Euskera, would need to be the language of the first. Arguments that result from the interconnection of linguistics, archeology, history, biolinguistics and genetics are…[Read more]

A concrete problem is addressed in this presentation: why vascones and vascos have been identified and why it has been assumed that the language of the seconds, Vascuence, Vasco or Euskera, would need to be the language of the first. Arguments that result from the interconnection of linguistics, archeology, history, biolinguistics and genetics are…[Read more]

Los contactos entre hablantes repercuten en las lenguas mediante los procesos de bilingüismo y conmutación de códigos, que están hoy bien estudiados. Estos procesos afectan a la gramática y al léxico. Al segundo se orienta este estudio, en el cual se considera que precisamente es el bereber el que enmarca al latín en África, lo que justifi…[Read more]

Los contactos entre hablantes repercuten en las lenguas mediante los procesos de bilingüismo y conmutación de códigos, que están hoy bien estudiados. Estos procesos afectan a la gramática y al léxico. Al segundo se orienta este estudio, en el cual se considera que precisamente es el bereber el que enmarca al latín en África, lo que justifi…[Read more]

This work includes a series of aspects of the study of numerals, from different perspectives and with different applications. It is particularly relevant the application of diachronic analysis to the establishment of a date for the Libro de Alexandre. some of those aspects were already treated by the author in different publications; however, they…[Read more]

He decidido dedicar esta nota al recuerdo de tres maestros con los que tuve una relación personal y de los que puedo dar la imagen de pervivencia
en mi propia vida, más allá de lo estrictamente profesional.

Este término tiene que ver con la caracterización socio-religiosa, se trata de cristianos, y no con una caracterización lingüística. No hubo ni lengua ni dialectos mozárabes, es decir, limitados a los cristianos. Hubo un romance andalusí, polimórfico, que era utilizado por los diversos habitantes de al-Ándalus, cristianos, musulmanes y judíos,…[Read more]

La expansión del islam no significó la desaparición del cristianismo en esos territorios,
donde, en condiciones más o menos precarias, según las épocas y los lugares, se ha mantenido
hasta hoy; pero incluso en los escritos cristianos, el latín fue sustituido por el árabe,
hasta el punto de que esta última lengua se utilizó para el aprendiza…[Read more]

Collegiate language programs faced challenges for survival long before COVID-19 hit the US. Now with the impending financial fallout from having to move online, colleges and universities will be scrutinizing even more so the value and viability of supporting language departments. This presentation will present a snapshot of where language programs…[Read more]

This discusses the multi-year process of implementing co-requisite composition courses and establishing a multiple measures placement mechanism to determine which students need what kinds of developmental course work, if any. The end result was an increase in course pass rates and an increase in retention.

VARIEDADES is a Spanish conversation book for the student at the intermediate / advanced intermediate level. Through audiovisual activities, the student is expected to put their previous knowledge into practice and continue to develop their ability to understand, write, listen, and speak in Spanish.
VARIEDADES offers communicative activities…[Read more]

Prior to the advent of the printing press, the page—the medieval manuscript page—was often complexly multimodal, containing elaborate scripts, rubrications, and illuminations; the medieval page was a multimedia experience for its community of readers, viewers, and listeners. Both writing and the page are, and always were, visual: rendered in mul…[Read more]

This essay explores the gap between the abstract ideal of fairness and the bodily materiality of retribution. My aim is to suggest how some current cognitive science affords a helpful way of talking about the breaks between abstractions, or thoughts of fairness, and the judgments and punishments produced by actual legal systems. It is remarkably…[Read more]

In her introduction to the Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies, Lisa Zunshine, scholar in the field and its best historian, describes cognitive literary critics as working “not toward consilience with science but toward a richer engagement with a variety of theoretical paradigms in literary and cultural studies” (2015). Scholars from m…[Read more]

Proust was strongly opposed to the idea of ​​a naturally “clear” national language whose directives would be inherent in thought itself. This book questions Proust’s style from the point of view of its theorization and the implementation of diffuse sensory rhetoric in À la recherche du temps perdu.