A brief history of the Spanish language /

Spanish is the fourth most widely spoken language in the world and a language of ever-increasing importance in the United States. In what will likely become the introduction to the history of the Spanish language, David Pharies clearly and concisely charts the evolution of Spanish from its Indo-Euro...

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Main Author: Pharies, David A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
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Online Access:CONNECT (3 users)
Table of Contents:
  • Language change
  • The genealogy of Spanish
  • External history of the Iberian peninsula up to the thirteenth century
  • The Latin language
  • From Latin to medieval Castilian : phonology
  • From Latin to medieval Castilian : morphology and syntax
  • From medieval Castilian to modern Spanish
  • History of the Spanish lexicon
  • Spanish dialectology.