Spanish Idioms

Hemos definido e identificado las lenguas usko-mediterráneas. Las lenguas vivas actuales pertenecientes al grupo son el vasco, las caucásicas (checheno, armenio, georgiano, etc) y el bereber, muy modificado por la influencia árabe. Existen, además, lenguas muertas del mismo grupo: el etrusco, el ibérico-tartésico, el guanche, el lineal A cretense, el egipcio antiguo-jeroglífico, y otras de Oriente Próximo (hitita, eblita, elamita y sumerio). El idioma etrusco, como su cultura, fue base del latín y la cultura romana. Las palabras presuntamente de origen latino que se encuentran en...

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The present study aims at offering an overview of Spanish-Portuguese (and Spanish-Galician-Portuguese) language contact, both in Europe and in America. It pays a special attention to the history of linguistic interferences in each region, examining how and when lexical borrowings entered the Spanish language and how they disseminated across the Spanish-speaking world.

* Approach reflects a belief in the value of discourse analysis, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics in the fields of second language acquisition and applied linguistics. * Goal is to train teachers to teach the Spanish language as a communicative system rather than as a set of grammatical rules--therefore it includes relevant information on Spanish pragmatics and sociolinguistics. * Written entirely in Spanish. * Each chapter includes review questions and exercises. * CD-ROM integrates samples of the course material so that the readers can see and hear native speaker examples of aspects of...