Marina Nespor

Joan Mascaró

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.

GLOW Essays for Henk van Riemsdijk

Grammar in Progress

Els upanishads

“Los pasajes de este libro son lámparas de fuego. Algunas dan más luz y otras menos, pero todas se funden en esta gran lámpara llamada por San Juan de la Cruz la lámpara del ser de Dios.” Este maravilloso libro es una compilación de textos tanto de la tradición oriental como occidental que reflejan la sabiduría del mundo a lo largo de toda la historia de la humanidad. Juan Mascaró, erudito de origen mallorquín afincado en Cambridge, seleccionó fragmentos de las obras más diversas de filósofos, pensadores, poetas y literatos de todas las tradiciones del pensamiento para ofrecernos en un solo volumen una recopilación preciosa y única. Entre las perlas de lectura que podemos hallar en esta compilación, podremos disfrutar de los poemas de Shakespeare, Shelley, Wordsworth, de los escritos de los místicos españoles San Juan de la Cruz y Santa Teresa de Jesús, de las palabras de los Evangelios, de fragmentos del pensamiento occidental de Platón, Aristóteles y Spinoza, sin olvidar las enseñanzas de los Upanishads, del Tao Te Ching y de los grandes maestros orientales como Bhagavad Gita y Confucio. Una edición excepcional que celebra el volumen número 100 de la colección Orientalia de Paidós.

De las Escrituras y la sabiduría del mundo

Lámparas de fuego

Maria-Josep Solé

Pilar Prieto i Vives

Pilar Prieto

This volume is a collection of cutting-edge research papers written by well-known researchers in the field of Romance phonetics and phonology. An important goal of this book is to bridge the gap between traditional Romance linguistics  with its long and rich tradition in data collection, cross-language comparison, and phonetic variation  and laboratory phonology work. The book is organized around three main themes: segmental processes, prosody, and the acquisition of segments and prosody. The various articles provide new empirical data on production, perception, sound change, first and second language learning, rhythm and intonation, presenting a state-of-the-art overview of research in laboratory phonology centred on Romance languages. The Romance data are used to test the predictions of a number of theoretical frameworks such as gestural phonology, exemplar models, generative phonology and optimality theory. The book will constitute a useful companion volume for phoneticians, phonologists and researchers investigating sound structure in Romance languages, and will serve to generate further interest in laboratory phonology.

Joan Mascaró

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