Bibliograph

Four dichotomies in Spanish, adjective position, adjectival clauses, ser/estar, and preterite/imperfect, Luis H. González

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Four dichotomies in Spanish, adjective position, adjectival clauses, ser/estar, and preterite/imperfect, Luis H. González

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Four dichotomies in Spanish

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1164821883

Responsibility statement

Luis H. González

Sub title

adjective position, adjectival clauses, ser/estar, and preterite/imperfect

Summary

"Examining four dichotomies in Spanish, this book shows how to reduce the six to ten rules common in textbooks for each contrast to a single binary distinction. That distinction is a form of totality vs. part, easier to see in some of the dichotomies, but present in all of them. Every chapter is example-driven, and many of those examples come from writing by students. Readers can test out for themselves the explanation at work in the examples provided. Then, those examples are explained step by step. In addition to examples from writing by college students, there are examples from RAE (Real Academia Española), from scholars, from writers, from Corpes XXI (RAE), from the Centro Virtual Cervantes, and from the Internet. Many of those examples are presented to the reader as exercises, and answers are provided. This book was written for teachers of Spanish as a second language (L2) and for minors or majors of Spanish as an L2. It will also benefit teachers and learners of other L2s with some of these dichotomies"--, Provided by publisher

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