Sobre la subordinación con "para + infinitivo" en español actual

This work describes a particular type of substantive clause: “para + infinitive”, where the infinitive has a [+posteriority] value and para is admitted as a subordinator. The work presents the relationships it share with final clauses and questions the relevance of the theory of language contact (Guaraní and Portuguese) as the only explanatory factor. To do this, it show that it is not an exclusive phenomenon of the variety of Paraguayan Spanish, nor of bilingual speakers, since it is registered in other areas (Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, but also Mexico, Ecuador and Argentina). It is proposed that some varieties tend to fix the synthetic subparameter (subordinate with subjunctive [+Flex]) and other varieties use the analytic one (subordinate with infinitive [-Flex]). In these cases, the infinitive is understood as a verbal mode, and para assigns nominative case or an optional mark.

Rafael Ballesteros, Jardín de poco. Poesía inédita (2010-2018)

Rafael Ballesteros, Jardín de poco. Poesía inédita (2010-2018), estudio y edición de Alfredo López-Pasarín. Málaga: Centro Cultural Generación del 27, 2019. 216 páginas. ISBN 978-84-17457-17-4.

Of gods and men: Monsters in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Ridley Scott’s Prometheus

This article is a comparison between Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the 2012 Ridley Scott movie Prometheus focusing on the destructive consequences of the conflict between the creators and the created each deeming the other as monstrous. Both the novel and the movie are about finding answers to fundamental questions as to one’s nature of existence motivated by a human curiosity and desire for immortality leading to a conflict with one’s creator. The main concern here is to lay bare the blurriness of the lines allegedly separating the monsters from their creators, elucidating the monstrosity of the creators themselves as a product of hubris which eventually leads to a transgression of the boundaries between God/man, man/monster, good/evil and so forth.

Néstor Ponce, Muertes trece siete vidas

Néstor Ponce, Muertes trece siete vidas. Berlín: Iliada Ediciones, 2020. 141 páginas. ISBN: 979-8680475959.

Yasmina Romero Morales, Moras. Imaginarios de género y alteridad en la narrativa española femenina del siglo XX

Yasmina Romero Morales, Moras. Imaginarios de género y alteridad en la narrativa española femenina del siglo XX. Pról. de Mohamed Abrighach. Madrid: Plaza y Valdés Editores, 2019. 350 páginas. ISBN: 978-84-17121-27-3.

I hope they don't get forgotten. A descriptive corpus-based approach to get-passives with verbs of cognition in English

It is widely held in the literature that English get-passives are only found with dynamic predicates, stative verbs being excluded from it. However, based on an extensive corpus-based analysis of occurrences with the verbs forget, know, remember, understand and believe, this article shows that the get-passive with stative verbs of cognition, although infrequent, does occur in English. The so-called cognitive get-passive is then examined in relation to the formal, semantic and pragmatic properties commonly claimed to define central get-passives with dynamic verbs. The analysis reveals, on the one hand, that these features are not equally relevant in the characterisation of these sentences and, on the other, that there exist strong interconnections between them and the lexical properties of the verbs analysed.

"Encontré tres palabras para jugar hoy: exacto, excéntrico, extremo": el efecto performático en los cuentos de Nadine Alemán

Current Argentinean Patagonian narrative possesses Nadine Alemán (Esquel, 1977) as one of its most suggestive and creative voices. This assertion is based on her capacity to construct a narrative imaginary that produces performance effects, derived from the confluence and evocation of other languages that can be found in the literary reception of 17 simples cuentos (2006) and of El cura y la sucia (2012). The traditional boundaries that tend to restrict literature to a specific field of critical action seem, in consequence, to become fuzzy. Thus, performance ―as a “methodological lense”, according to Diana Taylor― is made into a certain possibility that widens perspectives to approach this Spanish American writing proposal.

Sappho, Hegel and Michael Field: Paradox and desire in lyric III

This article offers a close reading of Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper’s lyric III in Long Ago, a Sapphic volume of verse published in 1889 under the collaborative nom de plume of Michael Field. This collection articulates a dramatic inquiry into the tragedy of unrequited love in a long cycle of lyrics whose third piece most effectively encapsulates the kernel of what the Fields reconstruct as Sappho’s ambivalent eroticism. The outcome of this reconstruction, as analysed in light of lyric III, is a consistent Hegelian view of desire that subsumes a complex system of tropes, myths, paradoxes and imaginative strategies under an overarching ideology of desire as a radical experience of appropriation, violence and self-destruction.

Evolución gramatical de las construcciones progresivas del inglés: una discusión diacrónica

In this paper we bring forward a comprehensive discussion on the grammatical development of the English progressive construction. From a set of progressive prototypes drawn from the family of corpora York-Toronto-Helsinki-Penn, we exemplify how the lexical and grammatical configuration of the construction which is characteristic of Present-Day English appears since Old English. Furthermore, we explain how the syntactic evolution of English enables the establishment of the obligatory grammatical nature of the verbal periphrastic construction. Finally, we explain how the grammatical patterns and the semantic and pragmatic features that describe the English progressive construction in the course of its evolution are manifested apparently through a functional-morphosyntactic and grammatical change gradient.

Dámaris Romero-González, Israel Muñoz-Gallarte y Gabriel Laguna-Mariscal (eds.), Visitors from beyond the grave. Ghosts in world literature

Dámaris Romero-González, Israel Muñoz-Gallarte y Gabriel Laguna-Mariscal (eds.), Visitors from beyond the grave. Ghosts in world literature. Coimbra: Universidade de Coimbra, 2019. 300 páginas. ISBN: 978-989-26-1763-3; e-ISBN: 978-989-26-1765-7.