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En este libro, publicado en 2015, en la prestigiosa colección filológica Ariadna de la editorial axac, que dirige el catedrático de Lengua Española de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Alejandro Veiga Rodríguez, Manuel Peñalver Castillo analiza con gran rigor científico los antecedentes y los consecuentes de la gramática española en el Siglo de Oro, y hace un brillante y exhaustivo análisis de las obras gramaticales de Nebrija, Villalón, Jiménez Patón, Correas y Villar con ideas nuevas y renovados planteamientos, que tienen en cuenta la bibliografía más reciente y actual de la gramaticografía del español.

La Fonología Variable del Español de México (FVEM) está planeada en tres volúmenes, cada uno enfocado a distintos aspectos fónicos (segmentales, entonativos y en la palabra, respectivamente). La representatividad de los datos es uno de los principales ejes para la propuesta de análisis, al considerar como unidad de trabajo a la comunidad de habla y no al individuo. En este sentido, la lengua es vista como un hecho social, que incorpora parte de la realidad comunitaria. Por otro lado, en la metodología se integra la perspectiva de la lingüística realista, que privilegia el empleo de datos obtenidos en contextos naturales.

This paper focuses on two types of nominal complement clauses, namely finite (el hecho de que vaya 'the fact that s/he goes') and infinitival complements (el hecho de ir 'the fact of going'). The aim is to determine whether the two complement types are "functionally identical" (cf. Bogard & Company 1989). The analysis of two samples of 37 and 56 Portuguese and Spanish nouns, which are frequently combined with both kinds of complement clauses, reveals clear differences between both noun classes and the usage context of the two types of complement clauses. Finite complements are preferred by mental and linguistic nouns, such as certeza 'certainty' and noticia 'news'. These nouns are also associated with the indicative mood in the subordinate clause. The nouns preferring the infinitive, on the other hand, are often modal (e.g. necesidad ), and are associated with the subjunctive mood. Only nouns with mainly factual uses (e.g. facto and hecho 'fact') are frequently combined with both complement types. It is thus concluded that the finite and infinitive clausal complements are not functionally identical. In addition, historically there seems to be a shift towards more finite complements. That is, the infinitival complements are found to predominate in terms of usage frequency in the 16th to 18th centuries, whereas the finite clause complements become increasingly frequent in the 19th and 20th centuries. Original received: 2016/07/29Review sent to author: 2016/10/25Accepted: 2016/10/25

Yucatec Maya (Mayan, Mexico) shows a number of focus constructions where foci appear to the left of the verb, similarly to what has been observed in languages like Hungarian. There has been extensive debate in Yucatec specifically, and in Mayan languages in general, as to whether or not these focus constructions are clefts. This paper contributes to this ongoing debate by presenting four new types of evidence that point to the conclusion that focus constructions in Yucatec are not clefts. The evidence presented here indicates that monoclausal focus constructions and clefts are different with respect to (i) the obligatory nature of agent focus morphology; (ii) the possibility of inversion; (iii) the possibility of having a negative pronoun as the focus, and; (iv) the possibility of having verb focus constructions. Original received: 2016/01/29Review sent to author: 2016/03/28Accepted: 2016/11/21

In this article, I analyze the phonological status of the segments [ i̯ ] and [ u̯ ] as consonants /j/ and /w/ in the paʔipá:y language. I discard the idea that these segments are diphthongs or part of a consonant of secondary tonality, a perspective that has been traditionally assumed in the description of this language. Original received: 2016/01/26Review sent to author: 2016/07/12Accepted: 2016/09/04

In this paper I describe the different morphosyntactic strategies that are used in Alto Balsas Nahuatl (central Guerrero Nahuatl) to mark negative sentences. Standard negation is marked by a proclitic that appears as the first element of the complex verbal word. Beyond standard negation, different negative words are used depending on the sentence type: máka, if it is a negative imperative or a negative desiderative; λáhmo, if it is a negative eliptic conditional; ka:, if the whole sentence is negated. The loanword nin or niú:n is used as a negative copulative conjunction or as a negative nominal quantifier. Original received: 2016/02/13Review sent to author: 2016/04/04Accepted: 2016/08/08

Mazatec is a language that belongs to the Popolocan branch (Gudschinsky 1959b) of the Otomanguean family (Rensch 1976). This note is an overview of the linguistic studies about the Mazatec language, from the works of the second half of the nineteenth century, to the most recent ones. Original received: 2015/05/31Review sent to author: 2015/09/01Accepted: 2016/11/25