Social Interactions and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Latin America

In this paper, we seek to examine the effect of comparisons and social capital on subjective well-being. Furthermore, we test if, through social influence and exposure, social capital is either an enhancer or appeaser of the comparison effect. Using the Latinobarómetro Survey (2007) we find that in contrast to most previous studies, the comparison effect on well-being is positive; that is, the better others perform, the happier the individual is. We also find that social capital is among the strongest correlates of individuals’ subjective well-being in Latin American countries. Furthermore, our findings suggest that social contacts may enhance the comparison effect on individual’s happiness, which is more intense for those who perform worse in their reference group.

About the limits of metalanguage: An essay on the modelisation of Latin grammatical lexicography

[EN] Progress in methodology in specific fields is usually very closely linked to the technological progress in other areas of knowledge. This justifies the fact that lexicographical techniques have had to wait for the arrival of the IT era of the last decades of the 20th century in order to be able to create specialised electronic dictionaries which can house and systemise enormous amounts of information which can later be dealt with quickly and efficiently. This study proposes a practical-methodological model which aims to solve the grammatical treatment of adverbs in Ancient Latin. We have suggested a list of 5 types, in a decreasing order from a greater to lesser degree of specialisation; technical (T), semi-technical (S-T), instrumental-valued (I-V), instrumental- descriptive (I-D), instrumental-expository (I-E).

Sugli epigrammi latini del Petrarca

[IT] Un gruppo di tre manoscritti trasmette una piccola e assai curiosa collezione di epigrammi latini del Petrarca: a proposito di una recente edizione di alcuni di essi (F. Petrarca, Gabbiani, ed. F. Rico, Milano, Adelphi, 2008), in questo articolo vengono illustrati vari aspetti testuali che potrebbero essere rilevanti per determinare l’origine controversa della tradizione degli epigrammi.

Payments for Water Ecosystem Services in Latin America: Evidence from Reported Experience

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Las vitae sanctorum de la Hispania medieval: sus manuscritos y su historia editorial

Ejemplar dedicado a: Hagiografía y archivos de la Iglesia santoral hispano-mozárabe en las Diócesis de España. Actas del XVIII Congreso de la Asociación celebrado en Orense (1ª parte) (9 al 13 de septiembre de 2002).

Fragmento de un epítome del «Liber Glossarum» en un manuscrito de en torno al año 1000

[EN] This article consists of a study (provenance, date of the manuscript, sources of the glossary, etc.) and an edition of the fragment of an epitome of the «Liber Glossarum» which is contained in a ms. about the year 1000 A.D. From the "Spanish symptoms" which one can track in the present copy, the ms. El Escorial L.I.15, from the 16th-17th century, the author infers that his model, now perished, was written in Spain and in wisigothic script about the year 1000. On the other side, on the basis of the copy the author reconstructs the primitive glossary text of the 10th-11th century model in a critical edition accompanied by a critical apparat and sources.

Sobre la serie de "voces animantium" incluida en las «Diferencias» de Isidoro de Sevilla

[ES] Este artículo intenta explicar la relación existente entre la serie de "voces animantium" incluida en las «Diferencias» de Isidoro de Sevilla («Diff.I», 607 = 225) y en los mss. P y M, como adición a ella, y la lista de voces de esta naturaleza contenida en el «Laterculus» de Polemio Silvio y las copias posteriores. Al final el autor incluye en apéndice la edición de algunas de estas listas, todavía inéditas.

Basque legacy in the New World: on the surnames of Latin American presidents

[EN] In this article we explain the etymology of the surnames of Basque origin that some presidents of Latin American countries have or have had in the past. These family names were created in the language called Euskara, in the Basque Country (Europe), and then, when some of the people who bore them emigrated to America, they brought their surnames with them. Most of the family names studied here are either oiconymic or toponymic, but it must be kept in mind that the oiconymic ones are, very often, based on house-nicknames, that is, they are anthroponymic in the first place. As far as possible, we have related the surname, when its origin is oiconymic or toponymic, to its source, i.e. to the house or place where it was created.