John Butt & Carmen Benjamin – A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish

(abridged and revised) This reference grammar offers intermediate and advanced students a reason­ ably comprehensive guide to the morphology and syntax of
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John Butt & Carmen Benjamin – A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish

(abridged and revised) This reference grammar offers intermediate and advanced students a reason­ ably comprehensive guide to the morphology and syntax of The Spanish and Latin American end of the semester saw both educated speech, and plain prose. of The twentieth century. Spanish It is the primary, and often the only official language of Twenty-one countries,} and it is set fair to overtake English by the year 2000 in numbers 2 of Native speakers This diversity in political and geographical areas ensures that Spanish French, German and English are much more unified than English, with the former being internationally standardized according to American norms.

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The criteria were in place until the 1960s. of Internationally correct Spanish The Real Academia Espanola dictated them, but the prestige of This institution has fallen so low that its solemn decrees cannot be taken seriously. of The spelling reforms listed under the Nuevas normas para prosodia y otograjia, were supposed to enter into force in all Spanish-In 1959, speaking countries were ignored by publishers. Nearly forty years later, they are still being selectively ignored today by literate individuals. In reality, there is no such thing as an in Spanish As it is in all languages, the consensus determines ‘correctness’. of Native speakers can still speak English, but it is difficult to reach a consensus on linguistic usage between more than twenty countries that are scattered widely and sometimes hostile. Peninsular Spanish The world is constantly changing.