Whose Eyes Are These De Quien Son Estos Ojos

The "eyes" have it in this charming book that introduces young readers to an owl, a praying mantis, a tiger, a chameleon, and crab. The reader will see a close-up photo of the animal's eye and be asked to guess which animal it belongs to. Reading confidence will soar as they read the simple text that is directly supported by the photos.

Simple text challenges young readers to identify animals based on images and descriptions of their eyes.

Simple text challenges young readers to identify animals based on images and descriptions of their eyes.

From kittens to giraffes, readers will learn that there are as many different tongues as there are animals. A kid-friendly title that will really speak to a child's inquisitive side.

“Which animal has a nose with two pointy horns?” It is questions like these, coupled with beautiful photographs, which will invite young readers into the wonderful world of animals. These books provide the building blocks for readers to start asking questions of their own as they explore the world around them.

Quantification is central to human experience (cf. Aristotle’s Organon): the most basic aspects of human life and reasoning involve quantity assessment. This study sheds lights on a highly frequent way to express quantification in Spanish, viz. the binominal quantifier (e.g. un aluviónN1 de llamadasN2 ‘a flood of calls’) which assesses the quantity of N2 in terms of N1. This volume offers a corpus-based, cognitive-functional analysis of binominal quantifiers (BQ) in Spanish. The first part is dedicated to the development of BQs and starts from the assumption that BQs are cross-linguistically involved in grammaticalization. This monograph frames the history of BQs in Spanish in terms of constructional levels of change and highlights the complex interplay between analogical thinking and conceptual persistence. The second part motivates both the ample variation in the paradigm of quantifying nouns and their combinatorial pattern by the very same mechanism of conceptually-driven analogy. The study thus yields an innovative functional model of BQs in Spanish, in synchrony and in diachrony, with major implications for reference grammars and theory building.