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Resnick offers a detailed and insightful linguistic introduction to the internal and external history of the Spanish language. Text is in Spanish.

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"This book is a treasure."

Product details Paperback 214 pages Publisher Georgetown University Press; First Edition edition (January 1, 1982) Language English ISBN-10 0878400834

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Introduccion a la historia de la lengua espanola Spanish Edition Resnick Books Reviews

• This is a good book to have if you are teaching the subject.. The information is well arranged and clear, and the questions and exercises are very good. The teacher is free to select portions of the text as required. It has served me well so far.
• This book is a treasure.
• Excelente produto. Tudo certo na compra e na entrega. Ótima comunicação com o vendedor. Recomendo o vendedor a todos !!
• Melvyn Resnick's "Introduccion a la historia de la lengua espanol" takes the reader on a fairly abbreviated tour of the plethora of changes that the Spanish language has experienced over the centuries. The book, published in 1981, has apparently not been updated at all since then; the font looks like it came right off an electronic typewriter, and nothing has been done to improve this lack of aesthetic appeal.
  
  Resnick breaks down the history of Spanish into seven short chapters a brief historical overview, reaching back as far as the proto-Indo-Europeans on the Iberian Peninsula; two separate chapters on foreign influences (one group, ancient, and the other, more recent additions to the vocabulary); Latin as the basis for Spanish; phonology; morphology; and history and dialects.
  
  This book is clearly destined for use in conjunction with a course. If the reader does not have a fair command of Latin, it will present a greater challenge to read, although many of the examples give the phonological and morphological shifts from Classical Latin to Vulgate to Old Spanish to Modern Spanish.
  
  A frustrating side to this book is the exercises that appear throughout the text, particular in the chapter on phonology. There is a key to some of the questions, but others are left up to the student (who, presumably, is working with a teacher). Anyone who hopes to go through the exercises on his/her own may come away a bit frustrated.
  
  The most thorough chapter deals with phonology and the 33 transformational rules (e.g., how "cogitare" came to be "cuidar"). That said, it is also the part of the book that may perplex the reader who has little or no background in Latin. The chapter on morphology is also interesting, though syntax is virtually ignored. Perhaps the highlight of the book is the section on lexical additions through borrowing from different sources (in both the Old and New Worlds) and various other means (derivational morphology, for example).
  
  "Introduccion" is just that -- an introduction -- but it is up to the reader to build on that base independently and at a later date.