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Based on an autograph manuscript containing more than twenty short theatrical pieces, and several translations, this article recovers an unknown playwright from the xvii and xviii centuries. Joseph Antonio Pérez de la Fuente lived in New Spain and wrote his works in Nahuatl and Spanish. One piece that is indisputably by Pérez de la Fuente is the Loa satírica, which in 2001 was attributed to sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, an error that has enjoyed critical prestige but must be rectified. 

This paper offers a survey of the most relevant critical approaches in the field of Spanish-Filipino Literary Studies with the aim of charting its development up to the year 1999. Given the relatively limited size of the corpus, this paper will treat studies that, although not focused directly on Spanish-Filipino Literature in Spanish, highlight how the field has been defined, which works have deserved more attention, what were the criteria used to select canonical works, what periods have been established, and what dominant methodologies have been employed to date. This will allow us to draw important conclusions about the development of scholar- ship in this area during the twentieth century. 

Between 1786 and 1789 Antonio de Alcedo published the Diccionario geo- gráfico-histórico de las Indias Occidentales o de América, whose fifth volume includes an annex containing the repertoire of the American voices. The present paper analyzes the words referring to New Spain included in the Vocabulary. Inasmuch as they pro- vide information on the flora, fauna and daily life of this great vice regal territory, these words are very significant for the study of American, and especially Mexican, regional lexicography.  

This article analyzes La Celestina from the perspective of the art of memory. Due to the characterization of Celestina as a bee and the comparison of the lovers as flowers, it is possible to read the text in terms of an analogy that was widely used to describe intellective processes. This analogy compares the process to produce honey to the process that produces discourse. By masterly using language, Celestina manipulates the rest of the characters, but her lack of prudence will lead to her death. This article intends to broaden our understanding of the work by exploring one of the traditions it evokes 

This paper analyses, from a diachronic perspective, the relation between two lexical and semantic diachronic processes of change in the prepositional phrase consisting of the preposition a + noun: delocativization and abstraction. The main finding of this research is that, throughout the his- tory of Spanish, the basic locative meaning of this sort of phrases decreased in favor of non locative ones. This led to an increase in the amount of abstract nominal phrases, to the detriment of concrete ones. The interest of this lexi- cal and semantic change is that it ocurred as a result of a “domino effect”: a first delocativization cleared the way for a subsequent abstraction. 

This paper analyses the meaning of aquí, acá, ahí, allí and allá in Mexican Spanish from a cognitive semantics viewpoint. The paradigm is dis- tributed along binary lines based on: 1) construal and base parameters, where the series with -á ending are contrasted with the -í ending in degrees of sub- jectivity; 2) integration of ego in the reference space, in which acá represents the total integration and allá, the separation imposed by some conceptual obstacle; 3) the domain of ego, in which aquí designates the locations inside this domain; and 4) focality, in which allí designates the locations in the low- focal region, and ahí, the locations in a high-focal region. Because its value is more objective and focal, ahí assumes the role of the unmarked member of the category. 

This article presents and analyzes the descriptions of the parts of the sentence in Cachiquel (name, pronoun and indeclinable parts of the sentence) made in colonial times (1523-1821) in texts by Domingo Basseta, Francisco de la Parra, Benito de Villacañas, Francisco Ximénez, Carlos José Rosales, José Ildefonso Flores and Esteban Torresano. It also studies the context in which they were written and the sources that inspired them. The article hopes in this way to contribute to our understanding of missionary linguistics, their circumstances, methods and traditions. 

The vast political and economical treatise entitled Reflexiones sobre el estado actual del comercio de España was published in 1761. Despite historians, from, at least, two decades ago, are well aware about its existence and had identified its author as Simón de Aragorri, the treatise had materially vanished and therefore there was not any analysis available about it. This article, therefore, first analyzes its content emphasizing its structure, intellectual sources and economic significance. The analysis concludes that Reflexiones is basically a translation-adaptation of a French work by the economist Jacques Accarias de Serionne that aims at promoting a shift on the economic policy of the Spanish Monarchy, either in the peninsula or in the colonial territories, in order to rationalize Public Finances, solving monetary distress caused by the coming to Spain of precious metals and transforming the old protectionist and industrialist policies inherited from Uztáriz and Ulloa into a new strategy of economic growth based on the agrarian development and the free trade. Thanks to Accarias de Serionne’s influence, Aragorri profusely used Forbonnais, Hume and Herbert economic ideas, to which he added those of the physiocrats.

This paper establishes the changes of energy consumption patterns electrification of the industry of Guipuzcoa, one of the most industrialized regions of Spain, using wide point of view: when and how energy change occurred, who and how funded given its corporate structure covered by a dense network of family and social relationships. We have used the census and industrial statistics of three crucial moments: the 1862 in the first industrialization, the 1908 at the beginning of the electrification of industry and the statistic 1923/24, which shows the industrial structure of the province after the First World War. This work has been completed the analysis of the investment structure through entries in the Mercantile Companies Registry. The Guipuzcoan industrialization followed by an energy model based on the use of water resources and hydro power first as a primary force and later converted into electricity. The low cost of energy generated in the Basque province as well as the regional business class were responsible for the extraordinary diffusion of electricity. They promoted the integration of its own power plant in the factory and looked for funding through a dense personal or corporate network.