Mario Montalbetti

The Syntax of Spanish (review)

rheir sexual awakenings, the celebration of rheir female bodies and their sensuality, and their struggles against many forms of racism, sexism, and oppression both in their communities and at the various universities and institutions where they obtained their degrees and later worked. These testimonios and writings are grouped onto the following four chapters: I) Genealogies of Empowerment; II) Alchemies of Erasure; III) The Body Re/members; and IV) Passions, Desires, and Celebrations. Novelist Julia Alvarez writes:

Spanish Passivized Datives: The Relevance of Misanalysis

According to XVIIth century puritan thought (cf. Taylor 1989), God doesn’t care much for Direct Objects, meaning: what you do is not as important as how you do it. Thus, Joseph Hall’s famous line: “God loveth adverbs”. Humoring the puritan’s grammatical metaphor we can speculate that God’s second love falls on Indirect Objects, the dative beneficiaries of one’s actions. And it is of God’s second love that I’ll write here; in particular about certain seemingly ill-behaved Spanish Indirect Objects that undergo Passivization. Towards the end, I will be recommending a treatment that has the unfortunate consequence of removing them altogether from God’s affection.