Spanish C1 · Day 10
Day 10: Fundamentos constitucionales y debates — Epistemic caber, constar and resultar
What you'll learn
- Grammar: Epistemic caber, constar and resultar
- Reading: Fundamentos constitucionales y debates: rigidez normativa y reforma en las democracias hispanohablantes
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Grammar point: Epistemic caber, constar and resultar
In Spanish, caber, constar and resultar each have a lexical meaning and an epistemic one. At C1 you need the epistemic use to grade how firmly a claim is held: merely admissible, on record, or inferred from evidence. The formulas are impersonal, or only weakly personal, and they belong to constitutional commentary, judgments and serious journalism, wherever an inference must not be dressed up as a bare fact.
Key vocabulary (8 of 19 words)
- el derecho fundamental, -es – fundamental right
- el Tribunal Constitucional (TC) – Constitutional Court (Spain)
- el amparo constitucional – constitutional amparo appeal
- la cuestión de inconstitucionalidad – constitutionality question (concrete review)
- inconstitucional – unconstitutional
- constitucional – in conformity with the constitution
- la exégesis – interpretation (e.g. of laws)
- el preámbulo – preamble
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