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Title: A History of the Spanish Language by Ralph J. Penny, Ralph Penny ISBN: 0-521-01184-1 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Solid scholarship, sound history
Comment: This book is extremely complete and quite well written. In the introduction we find some general observations on the nature of linguistic studies, consideration of the various peoples who have contributed to the make-up of what we know as modern Spanish, and other "humanistic" considerations. The phonology section covers all kinds of historical change (this is the section that held most interest for me). Under morphology and syntax there are a bunch of things that, as I read them, I felt like kicking myself because they had never occurred to me. The part on the lexicon is vastly instructive, with discussions of borrowings as well as changes that have taken place over time in the Latin sub-stratum of the vocabulary. There is a final part on semantics, and the author himself suggests that it may be weakest section: any discussion of the semantic development of a language is "is inevitably incomplete and is likely to be at least partially inaccurate." But here the fault is not the author's. Actually, he does and excellent job of telling what there is of the semantics story.
Rating: 2
Summary: heavy interrupted reading
Comment: if what you want is extreme detail, then this is the book for you. i myself found it hard to follow as every sentence is at least three lines long and interspersed with constant parenthetical notes that sometimes themselves take up three lines!
Rating: 5
Summary: Delivers as promised
Comment: This book delivers exactly what it promises--a thorough, well-written account of the development of modern Spanish. I espcially like the connections it makes with Latin and Arabic roots.
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Title: The Romance Languages by Rebecca Posner ISBN: 0521281393 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
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Title: A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish by John Butt, Carmen Benjamin ISBN: 0658008730 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
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Title: Introduccion a LA Linguistica Hispanica by Jose Ignacio Hualde, Antxon Olarrea, Anna Maria Escobar ISBN: 0521803144 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $48.00 |
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Title: Introducción a la historia de la lengua española by Melvyn C. Resnick ISBN: 0878400834 Publisher: Georgetown University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1981 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: From Latin to Romance in Sound Charts by Peter Boyd-Bowman ISBN: 087840077X Publisher: Georgetown University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1980 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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