The Evolution of SpanishCervantes & Company, 2003 - 249 Seiten For a long time American students have needed an introductory Spanish historical grammar specifically written for them; the standard book on the subject, Menendez Pida'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 of reach 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. |
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accusative anal analogical analytic language Appendix Probi audītus back vowel Classical Latin conjugation verbs consonant continued into Spanish dative diphthong dissimilation ĕre español etymological examples from CL fourth conjugation genders genitive grammar haber Hispania Hispanic imperfect inchoative infinitive inflected internal vowels intervocalic īre ire conjugation Latin of Hispania Latin Spanish Latin to Spanish lauda lost Madrid modern Spanish Old Spanish participles person singular pluperfect plural forms Portuguese preceding vowel prepositions present indicative present subjunctive preterite pronouns proparoxytonic quepo raised the preceding rebuilt remained replaced Romance Languages second conjugation second declension semi-vowel sigmatic simplified singular forms sound Spanish language spirant stem stressed vowel strong perfects subjunctive suffix syllable tense third conjugation unstressed usually VL Vowels voiced vowel triangle Vulgar Latin examples Vulgar Latin final Vulgar Latin forms Vulgar Latin stressed weak perfects yod cluster