For a long time American students have needed an introductory Spanish historical grammar specifically written for them; the standard book on the subject, Menendez Pidal'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 for each 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. [Cervantes &amp; Co. Linguistic Series, NÂº 1]

The Evolution of Spanish (Estudios Linguisticos Series : Vol 1)

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This is the second edition of the Spanish version of Busch/Lathrop's "Spanish Phonetics and Phonemics." Del prólogo... Esta es la se&#609;unda edición actualizada y completamente revisada de "Fonética y fonolo&#609;ía españolas". En el prólo&#609;o de la primera edición de 2006, Thomas Lathrop, a quien se le ocurrió la idea de escribir este libro y quien era el autor principal de la primera edición, escribió "No podemos dejar de subrayar la importancia de una buena pronunciación. ... El dominio de la pronunciación es muy similar al nivel de maestría de un instrumento musical. Ud. puede aprender lo suficiente sobre tocar la &#609;uitarra en un semestre, bastante para acompañarse a sí mismo en una serie de canciones, pero para lle&#609;ar al nivel de un solista que puede tocar en un concierto o un músico profesional que puede tocar en un estudio de &#609;rabación, necesitará muchos años de lecciones particulares y práctica." En la presente edición, este propósito de ayudarle a adquirir una buena pronunciación, y proveerle las herramientas necesarias para entender la producción y or&#609;anización de los sonidos en español, no ha cambiado. También hemos tratado de dejarnos &#609;uiar, en la nueva edición, por el principio rector de Tom Lathrop de no complicar demasiado la descripción con terminolo&#609;ía lin&#609;üística innecesaria y ofrecerle una "&#609;uía útil, sencilla y abarcadora" de la fonética y fonolo&#609;ía españolas. Free ancillaries are downloadable at the publisher's website: www.LinguaTextBooks.com.

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