This volume celebrates the forty years of life of RCEI, devoting its contents to the figure of Prof. José S. Gómez Soliño. His works on Historical Linguistics, Functional (Discourse) Grammar and African Studies are measured by the recognition received outside the limits of the Canarian archipelago. A representative group of scholars, contemporary colleagues and former disciples, participate in this tribute with contributions related to the three mail fields of interest of  Prof. Gómez Soliño.