PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Luis H. González is Professor of Spanish and Linguistics at Wake Forest University. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Davis. His main areas of research are semantic roles, case, reflexivization, clitic doubling, differential object marking, dichotomies in languages, Spanish linguistics, and second language learning. He is the co-author of Gramática para la composición (Georgetown University Press), a Spanish advanced grammar and writing textbook, now in its third edition (2016). He is also the author of Cómo entender y cómo enseñar por y para (Routledge, 2020), Four Dichotomies in Spanish: Adjective Position, Adjectival Clauses, Ser/Estar, and Preterite/Imperfect (Routledge, 2021) and The Fundamentally Simple Logic of Language: Learning a Second Language with the Tools of the Native Speaker (Routledge, 2021).
"""As an explanation aimed at simplifying the learner's burden, I find it difficult to imagine a different approach that leads to such an extensive empirical coverage without losing much grammatical information. [...] The structure of the monograph is reader-friendly, terminology is kept to aminimum,and each term is clarified, step by step. [...] The abundance of types of se in traditional studies has always been a problem, both from a theoretical perspective and from a didactic perspective. Any attempt at simplifying this picture is welcome, and in particular this monograph presents a simple theory that covers a broad variety ofcases. While many of the explanations could be developedin moredetail –something impossible given that the book makes a point of being short enough to allow thereader to coverit in a short time–, this book is detailed enough to benefit students and teachers preparing their classes on this topic. It is, moreover, original in being the first monograph, to my knowledge, that presents a theory of se-structures that tries to unify them within the context of teaching and learning."" Antonio Fábregas, University of Tromsø-The Arctic University of Norway, Borealis – An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 11(3), 441–448."
