Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

The traditional definition of grammaticalization assumes a notion of unidirectionally; however, studies have identified changes that present a different directionality, such as changes from verbs to discourse markers. In the Ecuadorian Quiteño variety, the expression ve there is a shift from syntax to discourse as in ¿Qué más, ve? ¡Achachay, qué frío, ve! ¡Calla, ve! Based on a corpus of 51 cases retrieved from social media, this study aims to describe the semantic and functional behavior of ve following the Subjectification criteria and to examine if it meets the characteristics of discourse markers. Through a detailed analysis, the data suggest that the particle ve reflectsthe loss of the lexical value of the verb ver and has been recategorized as aconversational discourse marker that has acquired new values in discourse.

This paper discusses the position of Set B pronouns in Proto-Mayan. While previous reconstructions differ from each other with regard to the exact position that Set B pronouns occupied with respect to the predicate (alwayspreceding, always following, or sometimes preceding and sometimes following the predicate word), all of them assume that Set B pronouns attached to the predicate just as they usually do in the modern Mayan languages. Based on cases in modern and colonial Mayan languages where Set B pronouns attach either to a non-predicate or the false predicate, in this paper, it is proposed that Set B pronouns were second-position enclitics (ultimately derived from free personal pronouns) in Proto-Mayan which attached to the first word of the clause regardless of the host’s word class. That Set B pronouns attach to the predicate in the modern Mayan languages is an innovation that results from the common clause-initial positioning of verbs in Mayan languages.

Throughout the text, the existing connections between the discourses of two pedagogical journals, at the end of the 19th century, are compared and exposed: La Escuela Primaria de Yucatán, in Mexico, and the Revista de Instrucción Pública de Colombia. The idea of civilization is analyzed, a polysemic concept that is present in the documentary sources of both contexts, which was intimately associated with educational activity. Likewise, the construction of imaginaries and representations around the indigenous societies, that inhabit the Caribbean, are evaluated: Mayas, Arawaw and Wayuú during the consolidation of the young Latin American States.

The purpose of this research was to understand the problems and challenges experienced by young Mayan students in higher, scientific and technological education in Yucatan. A multiple case study was carried out, resoting to different informants and techniques for the collection of information. We worked with two cases, the Technological Institute of Oxkutzcab and the Technological Institute of Valladolid. It is concluded that poverty, discrimination and school segregation are determining factors in the trajectory of young Mayan students in higher education. It is recommended to study with greater emphasis the issue of discrimination by ethnicity, as well as the incursion of Mayan women in technological higher education.

The aim of this text is to show nodal aspects of Hannah Arendt’s thought that can be useful to understand the contemporary youth condition, particularly making visible the complexity of the political life of young people. In this sense, the importance of attending to their appearance in the public space is pointed out, considering them like “newcomers”, bearers of novelty, who seek inclusion in a world that already exists. The proposal is to frame the inherent tensions in the encounter among generations in Arendt’s thesis about crises of authority, revealing that the current crisis is enormous. In this framework, the relationships between the notions of youth condition, diversity and cleavages, and the Arendtian concepts of human condition, plurality and novelty are revealed. The text is the result of a documentary research based on the non-exhaustive analytical review of Arendt’s bibliographical work, in the brightness of the theoretical and methodological requirements raised by a research project concerning students, youth status and political participation currently under development.

El Sargento Primero is a literary work published in Mérida, Yucatán, in 1905, whose merit lies in having explored the concept of intimacy from the level of romantic fiction in a literary era in which the resonance of the autobiographical, in Mexico, and particularly in Yucatán, it did not seem to be a high-flying literary company. The work, overshadowed by the political career of its author, Delio Moreno Cantón, is an example of the fictional approaches in vogue during the 19th century, mainly in France, which ventured into the territory of the self and individuality from fiction novelistic.

The objective of this article is to analyze the spatial behavior of remittances in Michoacán, Mexico, and their association with financial services. The hypothesis of this research responds to the fact that remittance flows, received by the municipalities of Michoacán, have contributed to the production of spatialities that have been favored by a complex network of financial services. What it is observed from this linkage between remittances and financial services, are patterns of concentration and dispersion in Michoacán. This relationship is characterized, besides to the Michoacán urban system, by the transmutation phases of remittances.