Overview
This volume presents specific topics in diachronic Hispanic linguistics. These topics include: lexical survivals in Ibero-Romance, Arabisms, lexical variation in early modern Spain, the origins of the confusion of b with v, Andalusian Spanish in the Americas, the expansion of seseo and yeismo, processes of koineization, syntactic change in scribal documentation from the Middle Ages, and the semantic changes of the verbs ser, estar and haber. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the Spanish lexicon, phonetics, morphosyntax, dialectology and semantics with the input of ten prominent scholars.It focuses not only on relevant issues in the evolution of Spanish but also answers pertinent questions in the field such as: Why do we have Latin lexical survivals in Ibero-Romance and not in other Romance languages? What kind of social factors drove Arabic lexical borrowings? How did the advent of printing affect the standardization of the lexicon and orthography? What are the main theories to explain the confusion between b and v? How relevant was the role of the Andalusian dialect in the general historical evolution of Spanish in the Americas? What were the main social and demographic influences operating in the development of Spanish during the colonial period? How accurately did scribal practices represent the speech of the Middle Ages? How did ser (ESSERE), estar (STARE) and haber (HABERE) develop differently in Romance languages?
Full Product Details
Author: Eva Nunez Mendez
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Imprint: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Edition: Unabridged edition
ISBN: 9781443890526
ISBN 10: 1443890529
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 20 May 2016
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
[T]his book certainly is an interesting collection of a broad spectrum of diachronic phenomena, containing valuable (sociolinguistic) explanations of the different Spanish curiosities , from which I, personally, have learned a lot. Hella OlbertzUniversidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, BahiaLINGUIST List 28.2895
Author Information
Eva Nunez Mendez is Professor of Spanish Linguistics at Portland State University. Her research focuses primarily on Hispanic linguistics (phonetics, syntax and the history of the Spanish language), and on applied linguistics (language variation, text analysis and second language acquisition). She has published widely in these areas; selected publications include Fundamentals of the History of the Spanish Language (2012), Fundamentals of Spanish Phonetics and Phonology (2012 & 2005), and A Spanish Version of Troilus and Cressida: a Bilingual Edition (2008).
