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This paper focuses on the description and analysis of an anomalous or non-normative plural agreement phenomenon that certain Spanish verbs, named "terciopersonal" o "pseudopersonal" in the literature, present when combined with an infinitive clause whose verb selects a plural NP as its direct object (Te cuestan hacer las tareas más fáciles 'It's hard for you to do the easiest tasks'). After describing the phenomenon, we show that the finite verb does not present all the characteristics that are usually attributed to auxiliaries and we defend that the theory of nexus and junctures proposed in role and reference grammar is a useful analytical tool in order to account for the structures under study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Translator education in monolingual contexts presupposes that students should develop their translation and linguistic competence concurrently, which presents a series of pedagogical challenges. This evaluative descriptive study examines the use of data-driven learning in a task-based approach (DDL-TB) for teaching grammar in a Chilean translation programme. Such an approach implies the exploration of a corpus to find different patterns or linguistic phenomena. The paper presents the design and graduation of tasks and, later, examines the translation students' and lecturer's perspectives about the suitability of this approach for English grammar teaching. The students' comments suggest that the approach allowed them to 1) reflect on the way they learn languages and 2) develop an active role in their formative process. The lecturer highlights that the approach aligns with the learning objectives of the course unit, allowing the course to be effectively 'descriptive'. It is concluded that the narratives examined in this study indicate that an ABD-ET approach would be suitable for English grammar teaching in translation education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, the enumeration structure is inquired from a grammatical aproach and a computational linguistics perspective. For this, some theoretical aspects based on the nature of the elements that compose the enumeration, the relation among the enumeration, the matrix that contains it and the syntactic element that allows the enumeration in the sentence are exposed. Afterwards, a modelization that allows a computational implementation are made. NooJ program was used for the computational work. The method has been checked in a corpus composed by Biomedical Wikipedia entries, and it got 88,40% of precision, 90,19% of recall and 89,82% of F-Measure. Finally, the contributions of this paper for grammatical studies and computational linguistics are presented, and new lines of work are proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the phonic component in three texts of Francisco Javier Vingut: Spanish grammar, Vingut's Ollendorff's New Method and Le maître d'espagnol (New York, 1848, 1850, 1853 and 1854), since they are an interesting contribution to the historiography of the Spanish pronunciation, because it approaches, in a country and at a stage still little known, to articulatory descriptions, to comparative methodologies and to a system of notation or representation of the pronunciation from different signs of transcription. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper has two intertwined objectives that are consistent with the overall goal of using an interface grammar to describe different contrasts among languages. The first one is to describe the internal structure of the English resultative construction or KR, to characterize a representative sample of the KR subtypes and to render explicit the syntax-semantics interface conditions that make it possible. KR is a Macroevent that fuses two Events--an Activity and an Event proper--in the temporal sequence of a 'causal course of Events' so that this Event is the Result of the Activity. In order to reach this characterization, it is necessary to subsume Manner under Activity, Result under Change and CAUSE under 'causal course of Events'. The second objective is to expose the features that license the presence of KR in English while permitting a scarce presence of it in Spanish. KR is the Macroevent that complements the prototypical English Event, which opposes to Spanish in so far as it projects an Activity as main verb while the Spanish Event projects an Event proper. Thus, KR is not a complementary structure for the Spanish Event. Furthermore, KR reflects the typical 'open' combinatory English style, which is quite different from the Spanish 'close' one. This means that English allows for an open set of semantic relations between two words under the same structure while Spanish prefers to reduce them to (likely) one. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a non-normative phenomenon almost unknown in Spanish, the "pluralization" of adverbs in -mente (lugares realmentes sorprendentes 'places really surprising'), which is not found in the main grammars of this language. From the data of Corpus del español we propose to make known this phenomenon, to show in which countries it is documented and with what frequency. Later, we analyze which adverbs in -mente show this final -s in current Spanish and in what syntactic contexts are given. In particular, we show that the kind of adverbs that are involved in this phenomenon are degree, modality, and focusing adverbs, mainly when they modify adjectives or sentences. Finally, we propose an explanation of the presence of this final -s based on two different processes that the Spanish language undergoes in the grammatical category of adverbs: adverbial agreement, which so far has been described for quantifier adverbs, and adverb "false" pluralization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes a theoretical and analytical approach to the textual encoding of thirdperson referents in Spanish, understood as the simultaneous choice of grammatical forms and meanings within a discursive context. Three different variable phenomena are considered: the way referents are formulated or indexed, their preverbal vs. postverbal placement within the clause, as well as the syntactic function they are accorded. These phe-nomena are all interpreted as being motivated by two complementary discursive-cognitive factors: the salience and informativeness of referents in context. After outlining a model of the prototypical tendencies of referent encoding based on such factors, a narrative text is quantitatively and qualitatively analyzed in order to observe the evolution of grammatical choice patterns as salience is gained along the context. It is concluded that manner of for-mulation and placement react in a more systematic way to discursive-cognitive factors than syntactic function does, the latter variable being partly dependent on the eventive features of the specific clause. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]