La clase de función 'complemento circunstancial' de modo en español

The starting point of this research is to be found in essays on linguistic functions carried out by E. Alarcos, G. Rojo and S. Gutiérrez. It was in the field of linguistic functionalism that the question of semiotic nature of linguistic functions was explicity stated: if utterance syntactic relations are meaningful, such meanings must be associated to significants which perform the task of transmitting them. Alarcos, Rojo and Gutiérrez began their work with subject function. Agustín Vera continued such study by also defining direct and indirect object function. Although we have studied adverbial function in its wholeness, this article is intended only to state our work on manner adverbials. Significant and meaning of manner class is a metalinguistic sign which we shall have to study

Traductores: traidores a su lengua materna

Those of us who are engaged in the teaching of Spanish for translators believe that our main objective is that they become good writers in Spanish. Bearing this in mind, on the one hand we must watch out for and detect their most frequent mistakes in order to include them in our syllabus, and, on the other hand we must be capable of applying the most suitable error correction skills. In our opinion, this task cannot be performed if we do not choose the model which best describes the written composition process. The article ends up with a proposal of an error correction model which we consider as the most appropiate in order to avoid that translators to-be may betray their mother tongue