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A history of the Spanish lexicon

Dworkin, Steven Norman, 1947-

A history of the Spanish lexicon a linguistic perspective / [electronic resource] : Steven N. Dworkin. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (xi, 321 p.). - Oxford linguistics . - Oxford linguistics. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Written from the twin perspectives of linguistic and cultural change, this book describes the language inherited from Latin and how it was then influenced by the Visigothic and Arabic invasions, and later by contact with Old French, Old Provencal English and, not least, with the indigenous languages of South and Central America.

9780191741395 (ebook) : No price


Spanish language--History.
Spanish language--Lexicology, Historical.

PC4075

460.9