Kategoria BISAC: Foreign Language Study >> Spanish

For years, this trusted guide has led students, tourists, and business travelers step-by-step through the basic vocabulary and grammar of this most-studied foreign language. Thoroughly revised and updated for our increasingly bilingual world, this new edition features verb conjugation and pronunciation charts, modern vocabulary including new idioms, review chapters, reading exercises, a complete answer section, and English-Spanish and Spanish-English...

Spanish is an important source for terms and expressions that have made their way into the English of the southwestern United States. "Vocabulario Vaquero/Cowboy Talk" is the first book to list all Spanish-language terms pertaining to two important activities in the American Westranching and cowboyingwith special reference to American Indian terms that have come through Spanish. In addition to presenting the most accurate definitions available, this A-to-Z lexicon traces the etymology of words and critically reviews and assesses the specialized English sources for each entry. It is the...

Following the headword to each of 25,000 separate entries, more than 10,000 Spanish synonyms and antonyms are listed in separate typefaces that highlight similar and opposite words. Technical expressions and newly coined words are also included.

NTC's Dictionary of Spanish Cognates Thematically Organized is a handy reference for both Spanish and English speakers. The book includes approximately 20,000 English and Spanish cognates--grouped into 100 topics under 20 themes.

This concise, practical lexicon of the contemporary Spanish spoken in the Western Hemisphere, particularly in Mexico and Central America, features 30,000 entries, easy-to-use pronunciation keys, and grammar summaries for Spanish and English.

Spanish Phonology and Morphology serves as an introduction to both the formal study of Spanish phonology and the framework of generative phonology.

The editors and fourteen other research linguists discuss--in English and in Spanish--the African influence on Caribbean phonology, dominant sociolinguistic attitudes in Puerto Rico, and historico-legal aspects of bilingualism in colonial Hispanic America.