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Module: SP3011 – History of the Spanish Language
Credits: 15
Academic Year/Semester: 2014-15/Semester I
Module Co-ordinator: Dr K. Anipa
Lecturer: Dr K. Anipa
Contact Details: email <ka17>
Module Surgery Hours: Mondays, 1:00-2:00; Tuesdays, 10:00-11:00
Module Description
The module explores the evolution of Spanish from Latin to the seventeenth century. A
prior knowledge of Latin is not expected nor requireed. In addition to linguistic and
socio‐political history, the module involves an introduction to the works of Spanish
linguists of the Early Modern period.
Teaching and Learning
The module sessions are as follows.
Sessions
Frequency 1.5 hours per week
When Friday 2:00-3:30
Where B402
Assessment
The module will be assessed by 100% coursework, in the form of TWO pieces of written
work, as outlined below:
ASSESSMENT
TYPE
Seminar I
Essay I: 3000
words
DUE
DATE
% OF
MODULE
MARK
0%
40%
DESCRIPTION
Formative. Analyse and
discuss
the
‘Primitive
Castilian Theory’ and the
‘Deformed Latin Theory’
Summative. EITHER (1)
To what extent can it be
asserted
that
the
foundations of the Castilian
SUBMISSION
DETAILS
N/A
Stapled hard
copy, with
blue cover
sheet, by
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Seminar II
0%
Essay II: 3000
words
60%
language were laid down in
the 13th century? OR (2)
Describe
the
broad
composition of the Spanish
Lexicon, in terms of
categories and sources,
drawing on as many
examples as you reasonably
can.
Formative. Compare and
contrast the role of Antonio
de Nebrija and that of Juan
de Valdés in the early
linguistic
thought
of
Renaissance Spain
Summative. EITHER (1) A
past question of your
choice, on the internal
history of the Castilian
language OR (2) An
analysis
of
linguistic
features from a medieval
text (to be provided by
Lecturer).
School Office;
electronic copy
on MMS (via
Turnitin)
N/A
Stapled hard
copy, with
blue cover
sheet, by the
School Office;
electronic
version on
MMS (via
Turnitin)
Week-by-week programme
The programme for this module is outlined below:
MARTINMAS 2014 PROGRAMME
WEEK
TOPIC
ONE
Introduction; Pre-Roman Picture and Latin Ancestry of
Castilian Romance
TWO
Alfonso X el Sabio and the Castilian language
THREE
Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain (Socio-Political and
Cultural); Humanism in Spain
FOUR
SEMINAR I
FIVE
Antonio de Nebrija
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SIX
Juan de Valdés and his Diálogo de la lengua
SEVEN
Grapho-Phonology
EIGHT
Morpho-Phonology and Morphology
NINE
SEMINAR II
TEN
Forms of Address in the 16th Century
ELEVEN
Froms of Address in the 16th Century
Reading list
The core reading list for this module is:
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Alonso, M. 1979. Diccionario medieval español, Salamanca: Universidad de Salamanca
Alvar, M. and Pottier, B. 1983. Morfología histórica del español, Madrid: Gredos
Anipa, K. 2001. A Critical Examination of Linguistic Variation in Golden-Age Spanish,
New York: Peter Lang
Anipa, K. 2000. ‘Tomad and Tomá, etc.: Change and Continuity in a Morphological
Feature.’ The Modern Language Review, 95, (2), 389–98
Anipa, K. 2000. ‘A Study of the Analytical Future/Conditional in Golden-Age Spanish.’
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, LXXVII, 325–337.
Anipa, K. 2007. The Grammatical Thought and Linguistic Beheviour of Juan de Valdés.
Munich: LINCOM.
Anipa, K. 2012. ‘Centrifugal and Centripetal Forces in the Sociolinguistic Configuration
of the Iberian Peninsula’, in Standard Languages and Multilingualism in
European History, ed. by Matthias Hüning, Ulrike Vogl & Olivier Moliner.
Amsterdam: Benjamins, pp. 231-258.
Anipa, K. (ed.). Forthcoming 2014. Juan de Valdés, Diálogo de la lengua. A Diplomatic
Edition. London: Modern Humanities Research Association.
Bahner, Werner. 1966. La lingüística española del Siglo de Oro: aportaciones a la
conciencia lingüística en la España de los siglos XVI y XVII. Madrid : Editorial
Ciencia Nueva.
Corominas, Joan. 1980-91. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano o hispánico. Madrid:
Gredos.
Covarrubias, Sebastián de. 1943 [1611]. Tesoro de la lengua castellana o española. Edited
by Martín de Riquer. Barcelona: Horta.
Echenique Elizondo, Ma. Teresa & Juan Sánchez Méndez. 2005. Las lenguas de un reino:
historia lingüística hispánica. Madrid: Gredos.
Jackson, Gabriel. 1972. The Making of Medieval Spain. London: Thames and Hudson.
Keniston, Hayward. 1937. The Syntax of Castilian Prose. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press.
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semester only and may change in subsequent sessions.
Lapesa, Rafael. 1981. Historia de la lengua española. Madrid: Gredos.
Lloyd, Paul. 1987. From Latin to Spanish: Historical Phonology and Morphology of the
Spanish Language, vol. 1. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society.
Lope Blanch, Juan Manuel (ed.). 1984. Juan de Valdés, Diálogo de la lengua. Madrid:
Clásicos Castalia.
Moreno Fernández, Francisco. 2005. Historia social de las lenguas de España. Barcelona:
Ariel.
Penny, Ralph. 1991. A History of the Spanish Language. Cambridge: CUP.
Pountain, Christopher. 2001. A history of Spanish through texts. London: Routledge.
Ramajo Caño, Antonio. Las gramáticas de la lengua castellana desde Nebrija a Correas.
Salamanca: Universidad de Salamanca, 1987.
Wright, Roger (ed.). 1996. Latin and the Romance Languages in the Early Middle Ages.
University Park: University of Pennsylvania Press.