Diachronic applications in Hispanic linguistics
By: [edited by] Eva Núñez Méndez
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2016
Place of publication: England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9781443890526
Subjects: Spanish language; History
Description: "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 yeísmo, processes of koineization, syntactic change in scribal documentation from the Middle Ages, and the semantic changes of the verbs haber, ser and estar. 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?"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1 Unique Latin lexical survivals in Ibero-Romance: a diachronic approach / Steven Dworkin; title: 2 Arabisms in the Spanish lexicon of trades: a diachronic prespective / Patricia Giménez-Eguíbar; title: 3 A socio-historical approach to lexical variation and change in early modern Spanish / Fernando Tejedo-Herrero; title: 4 A diachronic approach to the confusion of b with v in Spanish / Eva Núñez-Méndez; title: 5 Andalusian Spanish: a diachronic survey of its origions and footprint in the Americas / Cynthia Kauffeld; title: 6 Diachronic perspectives on varieties of Spanish pronounciation: seseo and yeísmo / Sonia Kania; title: 7 A diachonic perspective on Latin American Spanish verbal morphology: reassessing the role of koineization / Israel Sanz-Sánchez; title: 8 Romance syntax in texts from the early Middle Ages: a study in scribal evolution and continuity / Robert J. Blake and Carlos Sánchez-Lancis; title: 9 Semantic changes of ser, estar and haber in Spanish: a diachronic and comparative approach / Miriam Díaz; title: Contributors; title: Index.