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Date: 15-May-2010
From: Ulrich Lueders < lincom.europa at t-online.de >
Subject: Spanish through Time: Klein-Andreu

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Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 23:30:52
From: Ulrich Lueders [lincom.europa at t-online.de]
Subject: Spanish through Time: Klein-Andreu

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Title: Spanish Through Time 
Subtitle: An Introduction 
Series Title: LINCOM Coursebooks in Linguistics 17  

Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom.eu

Author: Flora Klein-Andreu

Paperback: ISBN:  9783895864308 Pages: 209 Price: Europe EURO 42.80

Abstract:

Spanish Through Time is an introduction to the development of the Spanish
language, designed for readers with little or no prior experience in
linguistics. It therefore stresses explanation of the workings of language
and its development over time: they are viewed as attributable to
characteristics of human speakers, in particular social and historical
circumstances, as illustrated by the history of Spanish. The development of
Spanish from Latin is presented divided into three broad periods--"Vulgar
Latin", Castilian, and Spanish--characterized by specific linguistic
developments and the historical circumstances in which they occurred. In
each case the mechanics of particular language changes are explained in
detail, in everyday terms. Emphasis is on the more general developments
that differentiate, first, various Romance languages, and finally different
current varieties of Castilian-- Peninsular and Atlantic (American).
Evidence is also presented for the chronology of some major changes, so as
to familiarize the reader with traditional linguistic reasoning. The
presentation is designed to be covered in a normal semester or trimester
unit, and is based on the author's experience teaching the subject for more
than twenty years in U.S. Universities. 

Contents: 
l. Introduction: On language and language change 

Part I: Romance
2. Spanish as a Romance language: theory and evidence 
3. 'Vulgar Latin'
4. Vulgar Latin Lexicon 
5. Developments in grammar 
6. Another word on words and reinterpretations 
7. The production of speech sounds, and the sounds of Classical Latin 
8. Early changes in consonants 
9. Changes in vowels 
10. Evidence of early developments 
11. The Germanic invasions 
12. The Arab invasions 
13. French influence 

Part II: Castilian
14. Characteristics of Castilian 
15. Early evidence of Castilian 
16. Morphology: Developments in form 
17. The Rise of Castilian 
18. Standardization 
19. Modern changes in sound and major current varieties 
20. More reinterpretations

Part III: Spanish

21. Spanish beyond Spain
22. The Academy. Modern changes in spelling. 
23. Spanish in our time: Some ongoing developments. 

ISBN 9783895864308. LINCOM Coursebooks in Linguistics 17. 209pp. 2010. 

Students' discounts available! Please ask. 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Romance Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Spanish (spa)

Language Family(ies): Romance

Written In: English  (eng)

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