Estudio filológico-literario comparativo del relato del funeral de Augusto contado por el biógrafo Suetonio ("Aug."100) y por el historiador Tácito ("Ann."1.8-10)

[ES] Este trabajo se propone el análisis comparativo, bajo el punto de vista filológico y literario, del relato del funeral de Augusto en el biógrafo Suetonio ("Aug."100) y en el historiador Tácito ("Ann."1.8-10). En primer lugar se remarca la importancia política y social del "funus publicum" en Roma, objeto del relato. Sigue un detenido y minucioso análisis en el que se trata de poner de relieve las semejanzas y, sobre todo, las diferencias entre el relato de Suetonio y el de Tácito en cuanto a los datos aportados, la secuenciación de los mismos y, especialmente, en cuanto a la focalización que sobre ellos y sobre el conjunto del relato muestran uno y otro autor. Finalmente se trata de explicar las diferencias, importantes, entre ambos relatos en virtud del género literario (biografía-historia), de la intención y propósito concretos de cada una de las dos obras ("Vita Augusti" de Suetonio y "Annales" de Tácito) y de la distinta personalidad intelectual de cada uno de los dos autores.

On innate and specific aspects of human language

Mixel Aurnague, Kepa Korta and Jesus M. Larrazabal (eds.)

A Brief Grammar of Euskara, the Basque Language

This is a short grammar of the Basque language, or Euskara as it is called by its speakers. What follows is a partial description of the syntax of Euskara. The text has been arranged in the following fashion: there is an index where you can find the distribution of topics. Within each of the topics, an effort has been made to arrange information from general to specific, so that as you read into a given section, you will get into more details about the topic being under discussion. This grammar hopes to be useful to a wide variety of users. Therefore, it will probably not satisfy anyone completely: Those who want a quick 'feel' for the language will be disappointed by the slow and messy details the text dives into. Those who want a detailed, professional description will be disappointed by the lack of depth in the discussion. The text hopes to sit somewhere in the middle, and if it tells too much to those who want to know a little, and too little to those who want to know a lot, then it will have done its job.

A Game-Theoreteic Analysis of Minority Language Use in Multilingual Societies

This chapter studies multilingual democratic societies with highly developed economies. These societies are assumed to have two languages with official status: language A, spoken by every individual, and language B, spoken by the bilingual minority. We emphasize that language rights are important, but the survival of the minority language B depends mainly on the actual use bilinguals make of B. The purpose of the present chapter is to study some of the factors affecting the bilingual speakers language choice behaviour. Our view is that languages with their speech communities compete for speakers just as fi rms compete for market share. Thus, the con ict among the minority languages in these societies does not take the rough expressions such as those studied in Desmet et al. (2012). Here the con flict is more subtle. We model highly plausible language choice situations by means of choice procedures and non-cooperative games, each with different types of information. We then study the determinants of the bilinguals ' strategic behaviour with regard to language. We observe that the bilinguals' use of B is shaped, essentially, by linguistic conventions and social norms that are developed in situations of language contact.