A Guide to Old Spanish

ISBN-13: 9780199687329 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 176 str.

Steven N. Dworkin

Recenzje

Dworkin's categorization of his book as a "guide" as opposed to a "grammar" is highly accurate, not in terms of what it does not cover, but in the sense that it accomplishes more than what one would expect from a grammar. In fact, Dworkin's use of the term is quite fortuitous in that it reflects the notion of a Spanish "guion" in its true augmentative sense as a 'large or comprehensive guide' rather than its more common usage as a 'script' or 'outline.' Both its accessibility and the comprehensive nature of its content make it an appealing read for a wide audience of undergraduate and graduate students, as well as scholars both within and outside of Hispanofilia.

O autorze

Steven N. Dworkin is Professor of Romance Linguistics at the University of Michigan, where he has been based since 1979. He received his PhD in Romance Philology from the University of California-Berkeley, taught for four years at Arizona State University, and has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Heidelberg, Tübingen, Seville, Oslo, and Calgary. The primary focus of his research and teaching is Romance historical linguistics, with a particular focus on Spanish. He is the author of A History of the Spanish Lexicon: A Linguistic Perspective (OUP, 2012) and co-editor, with Dieter Wanner, of New Approaches to Old Problems: Issues in Romance Historical Linguistics (Benjamins, 2000).