Luis López – författare

In this volume, Luis López sheds new light on information structure and makes a significant contribution to work on grammatical operations in the Minimalist Program. Through a careful analysis of dislocations and focus fronting in Romance, the author shows that notions such as 'topic' and 'focus', as usually defined, yield no predictions and proposes instead a feature system based on the notions 'discourse anaphor' and 'contrast'. He presents a detailed model of syntax---information-structure interaction and argues that this interaction takes place at the phase level, with a privileged role for the edge of the phase. Further, he investigates phenomena concerning the syntax of objects in Romance and Germanic - accusative A, p-movement, clitic doubling, scrambling, object shift - and shows that there are cross-linguistic correlations between syntactic configuration and specificity, independent of discourse connectedness. The volume ends with an extended analysis of the syntax of dislocations in Romance.

In this volume, Luis López sheds new light on information structure and makes a significant contribution to work on grammatical operations in the Minimalist Program. Through a careful analysis of dislocations and focus fronting in Romance, the author shows that notions such as 'topic' and 'focus', as usually defined, yield no predictions and proposes instead a feature system based on the notions 'discourse anaphor' and 'contrast'. He presents a detailed model of syntax---information-structure interaction and argues that this interaction takes place at the phase level, with a privileged role for the edge of the phase. Further, he investigates phenomena concerning the syntax of objects in Romance and Germanic - accusative A, p-movement, clitic doubling, scrambling, object shift - and shows that there are cross-linguistic correlations between syntactic configuration and specificity, independent of discourse connectedness. The volume ends with an extended analysis of the syntax of dislocations in Romance.

Does a bilingual person have two separate lexicons and two separate grammatical systems? Or should the bilingual linguistic competence be regarded as an integrated system? This book explores this issue, which is central to current debate in the study of bilingualism, and argues for an integrated hypothesis: the linguistic competence of an individual is a single cognitive faculty, and the bilingual mind should not be regarded as fundamentally different from the monolingual one. This conclusion is backed up with a variety of empirical data, in particular code-switching, drawn from a variety of bilingual pairs. The book introduces key notions in minimalism and distributed morphology, making them accessible to readers with different scholarly foci. This book is of interest to those working in linguistics and psycholinguistics, especially bilingualism, code-switching, and the lexicon.

Does a bilingual person have two separate lexicons and two separate grammatical systems? Or should the bilingual linguistic competence be regarded as an integrated system? This book explores this issue, which is central to current debate in the study of bilingualism, and argues for an integrated hypothesis: the linguistic competence of an individual is a single cognitive faculty, and the bilingual mind should not be regarded as fundamentally different from the monolingual one. This conclusion is backed up with a variety of empirical data, in particular code-switching, drawn from a variety of bilingual pairs. The book introduces key notions in minimalism and distributed morphology, making them accessible to readers with different scholarly foci. This book is of interest to those working in linguistics and psycholinguistics, especially bilingualism, code-switching, and the lexicon.

Mauricio es uno de esos paraísos naturales en los que todos soñamos con perdernos alguna vez, un lugar repleto de belleza salvaje, con playas de arena blanca, agua turquesa y la barrera de coral en el horizonte. Pero también un país lleno de tesoros naturales ocultos y una interesante diversidad cultural derivada de los múltiples ocupantes de su territorio a lo largo de la historia. A pesar de su pequeño tamaño (es posible conducir de norte a sur en unas dos horas), los paisajes de Mauricio cambian drásticamente: desde las tranquilas playas y los cultivos de la caña de azúcar en el norte, hasta los bosques y enormes olas del sur, pasando por las montañas de los parques naturales del centro del país. Esta guía ofrece al viajero los mejores consejos para organizar el viaje e información detallada de todos los puntos de imprescindible visita a lo largo y ancho de la isla; así como mapas y fotografías de cada región. Contiene además una amplia información práctica para conocer las posibilidades de alojamiento, compras y restauración para todos los gustos y presupuestos, así como las direcciones más útiles en cada rincón del país.

Esta obra que ponemos a consideración de la comunidad estadística, se concibió ante el incremento constante del manejo de métodos experimentales en diferentes campos de la investigación científica; por ello presenta temas de interés relevantes en muchas áreas del conocimiento científico, en un lenguaje asequible a los investigadores a quienes se les demanda conocimiento básico de Métodos Estadísticos.