Spanish C2 · Day 42
Day 42: Prioridad disputada entre laboratorios — Spanish thematic progression in connected prose (part 1)
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Grammar point: Spanish thematic progression in connected prose (part 1)
Sometimes the next sentence needs to take up an entire preceding proposition, sequence or tension rather than a particular person or object. Spanish can package that material into a new thematic expression: «El laboratorio valenciano admitió el depósito, pero impugnó años después su explotación. Esta restricción tardía del consentimiento altera el marco del debate.» Such expressions are encapsulating anaphors : they …
Key vocabulary (8 of 31 words)
- la pretensión de prioridad – claim to having made a finding first
- la caracterización inaugural – first formal scientific description
- el hallazgo múltiple independiente – independent finding of the same result by several laboratories
- la prefiguración – anticipation of a later result or idea
- el dictamen de datación – evidence fixing the date of a record or sample
- la divulgación de los datos – disclosure of results, methods, or evidence
- la historia de la recepción – history of how a finding or paper was received
- la heroización ulterior – later casting of someone as a heroic discoverer
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