Las contribuciones del presente volumen trilingue (en espanol, frances e ingles) se dedican a explorar las articulaciones entre los campos de la glotopolitica y la linguistica romanica. Se pretende al mismo tiempo renovar la romanistica actual relacionandola con cuestiones de desigualdad social y rescatar sus tradiciones intelectuales que pueden ser interpretadas como constitutivas de la glotopolitica. Objetos de estudio heterogeneos como discursos metalinguisticos academicos, listas de lenguas, glosarios gubernamentales, programas de software, la interaccion en situacion de peticion de asilo, intervenciones en situaciones de plurilinguismo regional, etc. se abordan partiendo de las premisas de la inseparabilidad de lo linguistico y lo politico, la historicidad y la contextualidad.

The book presents a selection of papers on syntactic variation from different theoretical and methodological points of view. As such, it contributes to a process of reflection on the dialectical relationship between theoretical explanation and empirical description. In the first part, the authors discuss the use of corpora in syntactic variation studies. The rest of the book presents some new approaches to a number of controversial topics. Part Two concentrates on word order, information structure, and its phonological realization, while Part Three enlarges on variations in the encoding of syntactic relations.

Proceeding from a discussion of the existing research on verb moods in Spanish, the study advances a theoretical view of their status in the hierarchy of modal forms of expression, their function as an expression of speaker attitudes and also discusses aspects of speech-act theory implicated in the way they are used. There follows a detailed analysis of the "Corpus del Diccionario del EspaAol de MA(c)xico." The results of this analysis highlight present-day tendencies in the use and the functional-communicative ambit of the verb moods of Mexican Spanish. A comparative study of the use of verb moods in German enriches the study by extending its purview to an entirely different language.