Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria

Armin Schwegler

Bernard Tranel

This volume contains selected papers from the 27th International Symposium on Romance Lanuages (LSRL XXVII), held in Irvine in February 1997. Focusing on theoretical perspectives, it covers expletive auxilliaries, negation and independent morphological development, and enclitic "-n" in Spanish.

Theoretical Perspectives : Selected Papers from the 27th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL XXVII), Irvine, 20-22 February, 1997

Romance Linguistics

Juergen Kempff

Ana Ameal-Guerra

Fonética y fonología españolas has been completely revised and updated for the fourth edition. The text serves as an introduction to the phonetics and phonology of the Spanish language and aids English speaking students in acquiring a (semi-)native pronunciation, while minimizing their foreign accent. Additionally, the text offers an introduction to various phonetic dialects of Spanish in the Americas and Spain.

Fontica y fonologa espaolas

In its 5th edition, Fonética y fonología españolas remains an indispensable resource for students of Spanish as a second language. This comprehensive text covers the essential components required for fluency, with a detailed treatment of phonetics and phonology that provides a powerful framework for the study and practice of spoken language. A focus on the application of articulatory methods enables English speakers to hone advanced pronunciation skills. Extensive attention to dialect phenomena found in Latin American and Peninsular Spanish introduces readers to fascinating sociolinguistic dimensions of regional variations in spoken Spanish. An enhanced pedagogical framework provides a sophisticated and expedient set of linguistic tools. Written and oral exercises help students sharpen their pronunciation. Numerous maps, tables, figures, and illustrations guide students to an intuitive understanding of Spanish as used around the world. Augmented by online supplemental resources--including plentiful audio and video samples, class discussion topics, and group exercises-- this textbook is designed to build students' confidence while encouraging their participation and sharpening of conversational skills.

Fonetica Y FonologÃa EspaÃ±olas, Textbook

The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.

A Diachronic Perspective with Special Reference to Romance Languages

Analyticity and Syntheticity

Geneviève Escure

This volume contains a selection of fifteen papers presented at three consecutive meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, held in Washington, D.C. (January 2001); Coimbra, Portugal (June 2001); and San Francisco (January 2002). The fifteen articles offer a balanced sampling of creolists' current research interests. All of the contributions address questions directly relevant to pidgin/creole studies and other contact languages. The majority of papers address issues of morphology or syntax. Some of the contributions make use of phonological analysis while others study language development from the point of view of acquisition. A few papers examine discourse strategies and style, or broader issues of social and ethnic identity. While this array of topics and perspectives is reflective of the diversity of the field, there is also much common ground in that all of the papers adduce solid data corpora to support their analyses. The range of languages analyzed spans the planet, as approximately twenty contact varieties are studied in this volume.

Armin Schwegler

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