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041			_aeng
050			_aPC4074.7 _bP45
100			_aPenny, Ralph _97764
245		0	_aVariation and change in spanish / _cRalph Penny
250			_a1a
260			_aEstados Unidos : _bCambridge University Press, _c2000
300			_a284 p. : _bilustraciones, _c15.5 x 23.2 cm
520			_aThis book applies recent theoretical insights to trace the development of Castilian and Latin American Spanish from the Middle Ages onwards, through processes of repeated dialect mixing both within the Iberian Peninsula and in the New World. The author contends that it was this frequent mixing which caused Castilian to evolve more rapidly than other varieties of Hispano-Romance, and which rendered Spanish particularly subject to levelling of its linguistic irregularities and to simplification of language extended into and across the Americas. These processes are viewed in the context not only of the Hispano-Romance continuum (which includes Galician, Portuguese and Catalan) but also of the New World varieties of Spanish. The book emphasises the subtlety and seamlessness of language variation, both geographical and social, and the impossiblity of defining strict boundaries between varieties. Its conclusions will be relevant both to Hispanist and to historical sociolinguistis more generally.
650			_aEspañol _xVariación _917710
650			_aEspañol _xHistoria _917711
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