Guide to Old Spanish

This book is a general introduction to the structures of the different medieval Romance vernaculars most commonly known as Old or Medieval Spanish. It describes the orthography, phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, and vocabulary of medieval Hispano-Romance, and exemplifies these features in an anthology of texts with commentary.

List of contents

• Preface


• I Linguistic features of medieval Hispano-Romance


• 1: The nature of "Old Spanish"


• 2: Phonetics, phonology, and orthography of medieval Hispano-Romance


• 3: Inflectional morphology of medieval Hispano-Romance


• 4: Syntactic features of medieval Hispano-Romance


• 5: The medieval Hispano-Romance lexicon


• II Anthology of texts


• 1: General estoria, cuarta parte (ca. 1280)


• 2: El conde Lucanor (1335)


• 3: Atalaya de las corónicas (1443)


• References


• Index

About the author

Steven N. Dworkin is Professor of Romance Linguistics at the University of Michigan, where he has been based since 1979. He received his PhD in Romance Philology from the University of California-Berkeley, taught for four years at Arizona State University, and has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Heidelberg, Tübingen, Seville, Oslo, and Calgary. The primary focus of his research and teaching is Romance historical linguistics, with a particular focus on Spanish. He is the author of A History of the Spanish Lexicon: A Linguistic Perspective (OUP, 2012) and co-editor, with Dieter Wanner, of New Approaches to Old Problems: Issues in Romance Historical Linguistics (Benjamins, 2000).

Summary

This book is a general introduction to the structures of the different medieval Romance vernaculars most commonly known as Old or Medieval Spanish. It describes the orthography, phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, and vocabulary of medieval Hispano-Romance, and exemplifies these features in an anthology of texts with commentary.

Product details

• Authors: Steven N. Dworkin, Steven N. (Professor of Romance Linguisti Dworkin, Dworkin Steven N.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.09.2021
• EAN: 9780199687329
• ISBN: 978-0-19-968732-9
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; European History, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, CE period up to c 1500, Medieval History, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Phonetics, phonology, Historical & comparative linguistics, Grammar, syntax and morphology, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, Historical and comparative linguistics