ABSTRACT

Paris is thc French capital He's a doctor /lawyer /librarian He' s a swindlcr /This is a swindle It's one o'clock/twelve o'clock It's been a cold year/summcr This is what I find annoying Umberto Eco predicts that culture

clashes in the 21st century may be bloody

(i) Estar cannot appear before nouns or pronouns unless the latter are its subject: *yo estoy maestro is emphatically not Spanish for Tm a schoolteacher': soy maestro.