1: Language Contact and the History of the Spanish Lexicon: General
and methodological questions
2: The Lexical Impact of the Pre-Roman Languages of the Iberian
Peninsula
3: The Latin Base of the Spanish Lexicon
4: The Germanic Component of the Spanish Lexicon
5: The Arabic Component of the Spanish Lexicon
6: The Impact of Gallo-Romance on the Spanish Lexicon
7: The Influence of Italian on the Spanish Lexicon
8: Latinisms in Spanish
9: Portuguese and Catalan Loans in Spanish
10: Lexical Borrowings From the New World
11: Anglicisms in Spanish
12: Some Final Thoughts
References
Index Verborum
General Index
Steven N. Dworkin is Professor of Romance Linguistics and
Linguistics at the University of Michigan. His books include
Etymology and Derivational Morphology: The Genesis of Old Spanish
Denominal Adjectives in -ido (Niemeyer, 1985); with David J.
Billick, Lexical Studies of Medieval Spanish Texts (second edition
Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 1993); and, co-edited with
Dieter Wanner, New approaches to Old Problems: Issues in
Romance
Historical Linguistic (John Benjamins, 2000). He is the author of
over eighty scholarly articles, many of which deal with lexical
change in Spanish.
The scholarship in this book is, without question, of the highest
calibre. This book will benefit greatly both advanced students and
scholars of Spanish historical linguistics, and, as a pedagogical
tool, could serve either as supplementary reading for a course on
the history of the Spanish language or as the main text for a
seminar on the topic for advanced undergraduate and graduate
students.
*Joel Rini, Bulletin of Spanish Studies*
Dworkins book is a lively and entertaining discussion of the
history of the Spanish lexicon. The approach made this book
difficult to put down. The books accessibility makes it a joy to
read, suitable for beginning students, and yet rigorous enough for
Hispanists. More books should be written in a way that encourages
future students to undertake studies in the field.
*Diachronica*
This History will probably be used as a reference book rather than
as a good read, but the scholarly perspectives and thought
processes displayed should even so impress and inspire all those
who have ever wondered about the hows and whys of the provenance of
Spanish vocabulary from other languages.
*Roger Wright, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies*
a lively and entertaining discussion of the history of the Spanish
lexicon.
*John M. Ryan, Diachronica*
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