Spanish C2 · Day 45
Day 45: Destrucción de archivos y memoria que sobrevive — Fine valency of experiencer verbs
What you'll learn
- Grammar: Fine valency of experiencer verbs
- Reading: El expediente que se niega a arder
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Grammar point: Fine valency of experiencer verbs
At C2, the fine valency of psychological verbs ( verbos de afección psíquica ) allows you to calibrate emotional agency, causal responsibility, and institutional stance with extreme precision. In historiography, judicial inquiries, and reports on destroyed archives, verbs such as inquietar , conmover , indignar , and dolerse assign fundamentally different semantic roles depending on whether the experiencer is …
Key vocabulary (8 of 30 words)
- la purga documental – systematic destruction or removal of official files
- la tabla de retención documental – administrative schedule establishing retention and disposal periods
- el valor probatorio – enduring legal value of records as judicial proof
- el descarte documental – disposal of administrative records deemed redundant
- el protocolo de preservación – formal procedure governing the legal preservation of archives
- el valor testimonial – value of records as historical testimony of state conduct
- el valor informativo – substantive informational content within archived documents
- la densidad testimonial – richness and concentration of surviving historical documentation
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