The Role of Emotions in the Characters of Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s Autos Sacramentales
In this study, we have researched the extent of the presence of emotions in the text of Calderón’s autos sacramentales with the help of a massive yet detailed study of the sentiments expressed by the characters that Calderón created. We have also delved into the...
What Loanwords Tell Us about Spanish (and Spain)
Using one lexicographical tool, the Diccionario Crítico Etimológico Castellano e Hispánico (DECH), and two corpora, the HathiTrust’s digital library and the Google Books Ngrams, we tracked the occurrence of thousands of loanwords in Spanish to describe their use,...
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and of his Machine Learning Adversities: Non-Traditional Authorship Attribution Techniques in the Context of the Lazarillo
Abstract Summit work of the Spanish Golden Age and forefather of the so-called picaresque novel, The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and of His Fortunes and Adversities still remains an anonymous text. Although distinguished scholars have tried to attribute it to...