The Evolution Of Spanish

Author : Thomas A. Lathrop
Publisher : European Masterpieces
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015060092544

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The Evolution of Spanish by Thomas A. Lathrop Pdf

For a long time American students have needed an introductory Spanish historical grammar specifically written for them; the standard book on the subject, Menendez Pida's Manual de gramatica historica, was written around the turn of this century in Spain, when students were expected to know Latin. Most students of today have no background in Latin since the modern curriculum has placed emphasis elsewhere. In this standard manual, Lathrop offers a detailed preliminary chapter dealing with the basic facts of Classical Latin important to the development of Spanish, as well as a detailed picture of Vulgar Latin--the language of the masses. It was this spoken language which was the origin of Spanish. In the second chapter he explains the evolution of vowels and consonants from Vulgar Latin to Spanish, with numerous examples illustrating each point. In the third chapter, he shows how the various grammatical forms, most particularly nouns, adjectives and verbs, evolved from Vulgar Latin to Spanish, again with many examples of reach section. At the end of the volume there is a useful index of words, a detailed, updated bibliography, a translation of Latin words into English, and a general index.

Author : David A. Pharies
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-12
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780226134130

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A Brief History of the Spanish Language by David A. Pharies Pdf

“As in the first edition, Pharies debunks—in an engaging manner—a number of ‘linguistic myths’ about Spanish orthography, pronunciation, and grammar.” —Choice Since its publication in 2007, A Brief History of the Spanish Language has become the leading introduction to the history of one of the world’s most widely spoken languages. Moving from the language’s Latin roots to its present-day forms, this concise book offers readers insights into the origin and evolution of Spanish, the historical and cultural changes that shaped it, and its spread around the world. A Brief History of the Spanish Language focuses on the most important aspects of the development of the Spanish language, eschewing technical jargon in favor of straightforward explanations. Along the way, it answers many of the common questions that puzzle native speakers and non-native speakers alike, such as: Why do some regions use tú while others use vos? How did the th sound develop in Castilian? And why is it la mesa but el agua? David A. Pharies, a world-renowned expert on the history and development of Spanish, has updated this edition with new research on all aspects of the evolution of Spanish and current demographic information. This book is perfect for anyone with a basic understanding of Spanish and a desire to further explore its roots. It also provides an ideal foundation for further study in any area of historical Spanish linguistics and early Spanish literature. A Brief History of the Spanish Language is a grand journey of discovery, revealing in a beautifully compact format the fascinating story of the language in both Spain and Spanish America.

Author : Sandro Sessarego,Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana,Adrián Rodríguez-Riccelli
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027260895

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Variation and Evolution by Sandro Sessarego,Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana,Adrián Rodríguez-Riccelli Pdf

This book is a collection of original studies analyzing how different internal and external factors affect Spanish language variation and evolution across a number of (socio)linguistic scenarios. Its primary goal is to expand our understanding of how native and non-native varieties of Spanish co-exist with other languages and dialects under the influence of several linguistic and extra-linguistic forces. While some papers analyze the linguistic dynamics affecting Spanish grammars from a cross-dialectal perspective, others focus more closely on the relations established between Spanish and other languages with which it is in contact. In particular, some of these studies show how power and prestige may support (or not) the use of Spanish in different social contexts and educational realities, given that the attitudes toward this language vary greatly across the Spanish-speaking world. On the one hand, in some regions, Spanish represents the variety spoken by the majority of the population, typically related to prestige and power (Spain and Latin America). On the other hand, in other contexts, the same language is conceived as a minority variety, which may or may not be associated with stigmatized immigrant groups (i.e., in the US).

Author : Thomas A. Lathrop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Spanish language
ISBN : UCSC:32106019556247

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The Evolution of Spanish by Thomas A. Lathrop Pdf

Author : Jean-Benoit Nadeau,Julie Barlow
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781250023162

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The Story of Spanish by Jean-Benoit Nadeau,Julie Barlow Pdf

The authors of The Story of French are back with a new linguistic history of the Spanish language and its progress around the globe. Just how did a dialect spoken by a handful of shepherds in Northern Spain become the world's second most spoken language, the official language of twenty-one countries on two continents, and the unofficial second language of the United States? Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow, the husband-and-wife team who chronicled the history of the French language in The Story of French, now look at the roots and spread of modern Spanish. Full of surprises and honed in Nadeau and Barlow's trademark style, combining personal anecdote, reflections, and deep research, The Story of Spanish is the first full biography of a language that shaped the world we know, and the only global language with two names—Spanish and Castilian. The story starts when the ancient Phoenicians set their sights on "The Land of the Rabbits," Spain's original name, which the Romans pronounced as Hispania. The Spanish language would pick up bits of Germanic culture, a lot of Arabic, and even some French on its way to taking modern form just as it was about to colonize a New World. Through characters like Queen Isabella, Christopher Columbus, Cervantes, and Goya, The Story of Spanish shows how Spain's Golden Age, the Mexican Miracle, and the Latin American Boom helped shape the destiny of the language. Other, more somber episodes, also contributed, like the Spanish Inquisition, the expulsion of Spain's Jews, the destruction of native cultures, the political instability in Latin America, and the dictatorship of Franco. The Story of Spanish shows there is much more to Spanish than tacos, flamenco, and bullfighting. It explains how the United States developed its Hispanic personality from the time of the Spanish conquistadors to Latin American immigration and telenovelas. It also makes clear how fundamentally Spanish many American cultural artifacts and customs actually are, including the dollar sign, barbecues, ranching, and cowboy culture. The authors give us a passionate and intriguing chronicle of a vibrant language that thrived through conquests and setbacks to become the tongue of Pedro Almodóvar and Gabriel García Márquez, of tango and ballroom dancing, of millions of Americans and hundreds of millions of people throughout the world.

Author : Antonio Feros
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674979321

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Speaking of Spain by Antonio Feros Pdf

Momentous changes swept Spain in the fifteenth century: royal marriage united its two largest kingdoms, the last Muslim emirate fell to Catholic armies, and conquests in the Americas were turning Spain into a great empire. Yet few people could define “Spanishness” concretely. Antonio Feros traces Spain’s evolving ideas of nationhood and ethnicity.

Author : Gibran Delgado-Díaz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781000352641

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The Evolution of Spanish Past Forms by Gibran Delgado-Díaz Pdf

The Evolution of Spanish Past Forms examines how Spanish past forms have changed diachronically. With examples from Medieval Spanish, Golden Age Spanish, and Modern Spanish literary works, this book demonstrates how language is dynamic and susceptible to change. The past forms considered here include the preterit, the imperfect, the imperfect progressive with estar (temporal to be), the present perfect, the imperfect progressive with other auxiliary verbs, the preterit progressive with estar, and the preterit progressive with other auxiliary verbs. This book will be of interest to scholars and graduate students investigating tense and aspect phenomena in Spanish and other languages, grammaticalization processes, and language variation and change.

Author : g. p. de Ridder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1417596139

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From Dialect to World Language : the Evolution of Spanish by g. p. de Ridder Pdf

Author : David T. Gies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999-02-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521574293

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The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture by David T. Gies Pdf

A comprehensive account of Spanish politics, literature, and culture from 1868 to the present day.

Author : Christopher Pountain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134678556

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A History of the Spanish Language through Texts by Christopher Pountain Pdf

A History of the Spanish Language through Texts examines the evolution of the Spanish language from the Middle Ages to the present day. Pountain explores a wide range of texts from poetry, through newspaper articles and political documents, to a Bunuel film script and a love letter. With keypoints and a careful indexing and cross-referencing system this book can be used as a freestanding history of the language independently of the illustrative texts themselves.

Author : Ralph John Penny
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10-21
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521011841

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A History of the Spanish Language by Ralph John Penny Pdf

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Author : Joel Rini
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027236852

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Exploring the Role of Morphology in the Evolution of Spanish by Joel Rini Pdf

After a brief survey of the perception of morphological change in the standard works of the Hispanic tradition in the 20th century, the author first attempts to refine concepts such as analogy, leveling, blending, contamination, etc. as they have been applied to Spanish. He then revisits difficult problems of Spanish historical grammar and explores the extent to which various types of morphological processes may have operated in a given change. Selected problems are examined in light of abundant textual evidence. Some include: the resistance to change of Sp. dormir 'to sleep', morir 'to die', the vocalic sequence /ee/, the reduction of the OSp. verbal suffixes -ades, -edes, -ides, -odes, and the uncertain origin of Sp. eres 'you are'. Important notions such as the directionality of leveling, phonological vs. morphological change in the nominal and verbal paradigms, the morphological spread of sound change, and the role of morphological factors in apparent syntactic change are discussed.

Author : Rosina Lozano
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520969582

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An American Language by Rosina Lozano Pdf

An American Language is a tour de force that revolutionizes our understanding of U.S. history. It reveals the origins of Spanish as a language binding residents of the Southwest to the politics and culture of an expanding nation in the 1840s. As the West increasingly integrated into the United States over the following century, struggles over power, identity, and citizenship transformed the place of the Spanish language in the nation. An American Language is a history that reimagines what it means to be an American—with profound implications for our own time.

Author : Christine Beaule,John G. Douglass
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816540846

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The Global Spanish Empire by Christine Beaule,John G. Douglass Pdf

The Spanish Empire was a complex web of places and peoples. Through an expansive range of essays that look at Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Caribbean, and the Pacific, this volume brings a broad range of regions into conversation. The contributors focus on nuanced, comparative exploration of the processes and practices of creating, maintaining, and transforming cultural place making within pluralistic Spanish colonial communities. The Global Spanish Empire argues that patterned variability is necessary in reconstructing Indigenous cultural persistence in colonial settings. The volume’s eleven case studies include regions often neglected in the archaeology of Spanish colonialism. The time span under investigation is extensive as well, transcending the entirety of the Spanish Empire, from early impacts in West Africa to Texas during the 1800s. The contributors examine the making of a social place within a social or physical landscape. They discuss the appearance of hybrid material culture, the incorporation of foreign goods into local material traditions, the continuation of local traditions, and archaeological evidence of opportunistic social climbing. In some cases, these changes in material culture are ways to maintain aspects of traditional culture rather than signifiers of new cultural practices. The Global Spanish Empire tackles broad questions about Indigenous cultural persistence, pluralism, and place making using a global comparative perspective grounded in the shared experience of Spanish colonialism. Contributors Stephen Acabado Grace Barretto-Tesoro James M. Bayman Christine D. Beaule Christopher R. DeCorse Boyd M. Dixon John G. Douglass William R. Fowler Martin Gibbs Corinne L. Hofman Hannah G. Hoover Stacie M. King Kevin Lane Laura Matthew Sandra Montón-Subías Natalia Moragas Segura Michelle M. Pigott Christopher B. Rodning David Roe Roberto Valcárcel Rojas Steve A. Tomka Jorge Ulloa Hung Juliet Wiersema

Author : Patricia E. Grieve
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801890369

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The Eve of Spain by Patricia E. Grieve Pdf

Finally, Grieve focuses on the misogynistic elements of the story and asks why the fall of Spain is figured as a cautionary tale about a woman's sexuality.