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Variation and change in Spanish /
"This book applies recent theoretical insights to trace the development of Castilian and Latin American Spanish from the Middle Ages onwards, through processes of repeated dialect mixing both within the Iberian Peninsula and in the New World. The author contends that it was this frequent mixing...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "This book applies recent theoretical insights to trace the development of Castilian and Latin American Spanish from the Middle Ages onwards, through processes of repeated dialect mixing both within the Iberian Peninsula and in the New World. The author contends that it was this frequent mixing which caused Castilian to evolve more rapidly than other varieties of Hispano-Romance, and which rendered Spanish particularly subject to levelling of its linguistic irregularities and to simplification of its structures. These two processes continued as the language extended into and across the Americas." "These processes are viewed in the context not only of the Hispano-Romance continuum (which includes Galician, Portuguese and Catalan), but also of the New World varieties of Spanish. The book emphasizes the subtlety and seamlessness of language variation, both geographical and social, and the impossibility of defining strict boundaries between varieties. Its conclusions will be relevant both to Hispanists and to historical sociolinguists more generally."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 284 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-259) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 0511014031 9780511014031 0521780454 9780521780452 9781139164566 1139164562 9780511050107 0511050100 0511034857 9780511034855 0511156170 9780511156175 9786610429677 6610429677 0511325371 9780511325373 1107120101 9781107120105 0521604508 9780521604505 0511175671 9780511175671 1280429674 9781280429675 |