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Southweastern Tepehuan is a Tepiman language which, along with other languages of this family, shows several deviations from the typological trends followed by most of the vowel systems with the same number of elements. This study provides a phonetic and phonological description of the Southweastern Tepehuan’s vowel system and provides an analysis of its structure in light of the current typological research. Original received: 2016/10/01Review sent to author: 2017/01/24Accepted: 2017/03/18

This article presents a typological/descriptive approach to the phenomenon of syntactic valency alternations, in order to explore the relationship between morphology and syntax observed in agglutinating languages such as Yaqui (Uto-Aztecan). In particular, this article deals with cases in which valency changes are simultaneously exhibited in the syntax (i.e., by means of alternations in the number of verb arguments), and in morphology (i.e., marked by changes in verbal suffixes). This article studies valency increasing operations, such as the causative alternation, as well as valency reduction operations, such as noun incorporation, and concludes that verbal morphology is a good diagnostic to identify the valency of Yaqui verbs. Original received: 2017/01/23Review sent to author: 2017/04/06Accepted: 2017/05/08 

The objective of this paper is to fill a void in the formal syntactic literature on Mayan languages by proposing a syntactic structure for clauses with non-verbal predicates in Yucatec Maya. The paper attempts to integrate the rich descriptions of non-verbal predicate constructions found in more functionally-oriented accounts (Lehmann 2002 [1998]; Verhoeven 2007; Vapnarsky 2013) with insights from the generative literature on argument licensing and clause structure in Mayan languages (Coon 2016 for an overview) as well as small clauses (Citko 2011 for an overview). I conclude that non-verbal sentences in Yucatec are matrix small clauses embedded under an Infl node, which is the locus for finiteness/stative aspect rather than tense morphology. This simple structure, coupled with independently motivated operations that have been proposed for small clauses and argument licensing/word order in Mayan languages, is able to account for a range of properties of these sentences that improves upon previous accounts developed in Armstrong (2010), Pye (2011) and Coon (2014). Original received: 2016/07/13Review sent to author: 2016/11/11Accepted: 2017/05/03

In this article I present the first formal description of lexical tone contrasts in the Cuicatec language of San Juan Tepeuxila, Oaxaca. Using both qualitative and quantitative approaches to acoustic and phonological analysis, I propose a tone inventory at the syllable level. The work is based on recordings of isolated words –including many minimal pairs– that illustrate the oppositions of level and contour tones. Based on an instrumental analysis, I show significant differences that support the identification of four level tones, five contour tones (three rising and two falling) and three complex tones (two of them concave and one convex). Original received: 2016/02/22Review sent to author: 2016/05/24Accepted: 2017/05/03

This research note presents a critical review of some definitions related to reported speech (RS) found in both modern and contemporary Spanish grammars. A common issue found in these definitions regards the alleged literality of direct style. With respect to the reflexivity of language, the possibility of speakers’ self-reporting is rarely considered explicitly. In addition, quotations of words and thoughts are treated in divergent ways in contemporary grammars. There is no agreement about the nature of the relationship that holds between the reporting clause and the reported clause in direct style. Original received: 2016/07/14Review sent to author: 2016/11/30Accepted: 2017/04/17

Reseña de: Aurelio González, Karla Xiomara Luna Mariscal y Axayácatl Campos García Rojas (eds.), Lisuarte de Grecia y sus libros: 500 añoserías, El Colegio de México, México, 2017

Presentazione del n. 5 (2017) della rivista "Historias Fingidas"

Trabajo que da a conocer la Tercera y Cuarta partes de una obra de caballerías portuguesa de la que hasta hace poco más de una década no se sabía casi nada. Se trata de la Argonáutica da Cavalaria, del autor maderense Tristão Gomes de Castro, quien la escribió entre finales del siglo XVI y principios del XVII. Además de poner de manifiesto el hecho de que estamos ante un auténtico ciclo caballeresco, de los más extensos de Portugal, el autor ofrece al final una minuciosa descripción bibliográfica del único manuscrito que ha conservado esta obra: el 1143 de los Manuscritos da Livraria, del Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo. This paper presents the recovered Third and Fourth Parts of the Argonáutica da Cavalaria, by Tristão Gomes de Castro, written some time between the end of the sixteenth  century and the beginning of the seventeenth. This newly discovered handwritten witness, preserved in the  National Archive of the Torre do Tombo, as number 1143 of the collection of Manuscritos da Livraria, reveals that this work was part of a true chivalric cycle and one of the longest in Portugal. A bibliographical description of the manuscript is included at the end of the paper.

Recensione di Daniel Gutiérrez Trápaga, Rewritings, Sequels, and Cycles in Sixteenth-Century Castilian Romances of Chivalry: «Aquella inacabable aventura», Woodbridge, Tamesis, 2017