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Variation and change in Spanish
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Veröffentlicht: | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000 |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (x, 284 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Bibliogr. Zusammenhang: | Print version:
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| ISBN: | 9781139164566 1139164562 9780521780452 0521780454 9780521604505 0521604508 |
| Anmerkungen: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) |
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| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9781139164566 |
| wird zitiert von: | 266 Titel im Zitationsindex COCI |
| Zusammenfassung: | 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 of the Hispano-Romance dialect continuum, which includes Galician, Portuguese and Catalan, as well as New World varieties. The book emphasises 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 Introduction: language variation -- Dialect, language, variety: definitions and relationships -- Mechanisms of change -- Variation in Spain -- VAriation in Spanish America -- Variation in Judeo-Spanish -- Standardization |