Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! With a focus on Spanish modality, this book presents Bohumil Zavadil's theoretical approach – the first such presentation in English – to this category and, consequently, analyzes its poss...

Since its publication in 2007, A Brief History of the Spanish Language has become the leading introduction to the history of one of the world's most widely spoken languages. Moving from the language's Latin roots to its present-day forms, this concis...

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Linguistic contact between Romani and Spanish, Catalan and other languages of the Iberian Peninsula began in the first half of the fifteenth century. This contact resulted in the emergence...

This book represents the culmination of a lifetime of research in the spoken Spanish dialects of the Americas by one of the foremost experts in this field. Based on more than sixty years of residence, travel, research, and teaching among Spanish-spea...