New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish / Edition 6

by John Butt

Overview

A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish is the standard reference to World Spanish which features formal,colloquial,familiar,and popular usage and new authentic examples that contrast Peninsular with Latin American Spanish.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2901138124010
Publication date:	11/12/2018
Pages:	620
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

John Butt is Emeritus Professor of Hispanic Studies of King’s College London, UK. He studied Spanish, French and Portuguese at the University of Cambridge and went on to lecture in Spanish literature and language at King’s College London for 37 years.

Carmen Benjamin, a native speaker of Spanish, taught Spanish at King’s College London, UK.

Antonia Moreira Rodríguez, also a native speaker of Spanish, teaches Spanish language and linguistics in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin-American Studies of King’s College London, UK.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Fifth Edition vii

Abbreviations and usage xi

How to use this book xii

1 Gender of nouns 1

2 Plural of nouns 16

3 Articles 27

4 Adjectives 49

5 Comparison of adjectives and ad verbs 71

6 Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns 81

7 Neuter article and neuter pronouns 87

8 Possessive adjectives and pronouns 94

9 Miscellaneous adjectives and pronouns 102

10 Numerals 119

11 Personal pronouns 130

12 Le/les and lo/la/los/las 154

13 Forms of Spanish verbs 166

14 Use of indicative (non-continuous) verb forms 202

15 Continuous forms of the verb 233

16 The subjunctive 241

17 The imperative 283

18 The infinitive 292

19 Participles 304

20 The gerund 309

21 Modal auxiliary verbs 320

22 Personal a 328

23 Negation 336

24 Interrogation and exclamations 347

25 Conditional sentences 354

26 Pronominal verbs 361

27 Verbs of becoming 386

28 Passive and impersonal sentences 391

29 Ser and estar 408

30 Existential sentences 417

31 Adverbs 421

32 Expressions of time 440

33 Conjunctions and discourse markers 453

34 Prepositions 470

35 Relative clauses and relative pronouns 502

36 Nominalizers and cleft sentences 513

37 Word order 520

38 Diminutive, augmentative and pejorative suffixes 531

39 Spelling, accent rules, punctuation and word division 538

Glossary of grammatical terms 553

Glossary of computing and telephone termmology 562

Bibliography and sources 567

Index of English words 569

Index of Spanish words and grammatical points 572

Editorial Reviews

"The sixth edition of A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish equips the multilingual 21st-century learner with the essential tools to master the Spanish language. This new edition amplifies its contrastive approach by incorporating new references to other languages (French, Italian, Portuguese, German...) as well as a wealth of new language samples from the Spanish-speaking world. It also incorporates important references to areas of special difficulty for the anglophone speaker, providing a clear, accessible and comprehensive account of Spanish grammar to the independent learner and maintaining its role as an indispensable companion to language professionals and students of Spanish at all levels." - Javier Muñoz-Basols, University of Oxford, UK

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