Review of 'Understanding and teaching reflexive sentences in Spanish': (Luis H. González, Routledge, 2022)

Antonio Fábregas

doi:10.7557/1.11.3.6700

Review of 'Understanding and teaching reflexive sentences in Spanish'

(Luis H. González, Routledge, 2022)

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Antonio Fábregas Department of Language and Culture, University of Tromsø

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https://doi.org/10.7557/1.11.3.6700

Keywords:

se, structures with se, reflexives, anticausatives, impersonals, language teaching, language learning

Abstract

This is a review of González (2022) book on SE-structures.

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Fábregas, A. 2021. SE in Spanish: properties, structures, analyses. Borealis 10 (2), pp. 1-236. https://doi.org/10.7557/1.10.2.5934

González, L. H. 2022. Understanding and teaching reflexive sentences in Spanish. New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003214090

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2022-12-09

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Fábregas, A. (2022). Review of ’Understanding and teaching reflexive sentences in Spanish’: (Luis H. González, Routledge, 2022). Borealis – An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 11(3), 441–448. https://doi.org/10.7557/1.11.3.6700

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Vol. 11 No. 3 (2022): Monographic issue: Lexical aspect

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