History of the Spanish Language through Texts

Christopher J. Pountain is a University Lecturer in Romance Philology at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Queens' College. He has over twenty years' experience of teaching Spanish and Romance linguistics. His publications include Using Spanish (CUP, 1992) and Modern Spanish Grammar (Routledge, 1997).

• List of Keypoints. List of Illustrations. List of Maps. Chapter 1. Preliminaries. Chapter 2. Latin and Romance. Chapter 3. Early Romance. Chapter 4. Al-Andalus. Chapter 5. Early Literature in Castilian: Dialect Diversity and Mixture. Chapter 6. The Castilian Norm. Chapter 7. Prose Documents in Castilian from the 15th Century. Chapter 8. The Golden Age.: Linguistic Self-Awareness. Chapter 9: The Golden Age. Chapter 10. The Enlightenment. Chapter 11. Modern Spanish Peninsular. Chapter 12. Latin America. Chapter 13. US Spanish. Chapter 14. Judeo-Spanish. Chapter 15. Caló. Chapter 16. The African Connection. Chapter 17. Creoles and Contact Vernaculars. Glossary of Linguistic Terms. Bibliography. Index.