This volume presents current work on a topic in Romance linguistics that still informs linguistic theory to this day: metaphony in the languages of Italy. Papers discuss fundamental research topics such as phonological opacity in the light of chain shifts, post-tonic harmony and consonant transparency, the role of morphosyntax in the typology of metaphony, the explanatory adequacy of feature-based versus element-based analyses, and the locus o...
A collection of pictures of Anarchist fighters against post-war Francoism. Includes biographical notes by Antonio Tellez. "The post-civil war Resistance was not wiped from memory. Like Franco's post-war genocide of a million, which gave rise to it, it was deliberately obscured both while and after it happened.
Barcelona-born, New York-based artist Francesc Torres (born 1948), a pioneer of installation art, is one of the most important European artists of his generation. In What Does History Know of Nail-Biting, which borrows its subtitle from Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, the artist explores a body of work made by Harry Randall, a photographer and filmmaker who was one of 3, 500 Americans who joined the International Brigades to fight in the S...
For the first time in Publication, a Retrospective of the Acclaimed Catalan Artist. Francesc Torres [born in Barcelona, 1948] produces most of his work between Spain and the United States. Torres explores the relationships between artistic practice and political analysis in recent history and the present. This is a groundbreaking collection of socially and politically charged art.
