Writer's Reference Guide to Spanish

David William Foster is Chair of the Department of Languages and Literature and Regents' Professor of Spanish, Interdisciplinary Humanities, and Women's Studies at Arizona State University. Daniel Altamiranda has taught at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and Arizona State University. Carmen de Urioste is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Arizona State University.

"The importance of this book ... is indisputable... Its usefulness will apply to an audience far beyond students of Spanish; it will, in fact, become a companion text, like the MLA Style Manual, to a larger audience of users running the gamut from bilingual writers, i.e., fiction writers and journalists, to editors who are unsure about proper usage." --Dick Gerdes, Professor and Chair of Modern and Classical Languages, George Mason University

• Preface Punctuation Spelling and Word Division Spelling Rules and Variations Accents Prefixes Word Divisions Gender and Number Forms Gender Number Word Formation Affective Suffixes and Spelling Changes Compound Words Prefixes and Suffixes Capitalization General Rules Calendar and Time Designations Religious Names Titles of Publications Titles of Persons Professions and Occupations Terminology Geographical Terms Names of Organizations Historical Terms Citation of Books, Periodicals, and Other Works Monographs Periodicals Book Chapters Bibliography Preparation Abbreviations Appendix 1. Anonymous Spanish Classics Appendix 2. Latin Authors Appendix 3. Greek Authors Appendix 4. Latin Expressions Appendix 5. Literary and Dramaturgical Terminology Appendix 6. Linguistic Terminology Appendix 7. Common Biblical Allusions and References Appendix 8. Common Classical Allusions and References Appendix 9. Common Literary Allusions and References A Dictionary of Spanish Grammatical and Lexical Doubts Bibliography of Special Terminology Bibliographical References Index