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Kormi Anipa, A critical examination of linguistic variation in Golden-Age Spanish. (Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics, no. 47). New York: Peter Lang, 2001. Pp. xx, 254. Hb $57.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 October 2002

Rena Torres Cacoullos
Rena Torres Cacoullos
Affiliation:
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-1146, USA, [email protected]
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Abstract

This book is about variation in 16th-century Spanish between forms and patterns that triumphed and those “archaisms” that did not, with a focus on the latter. The goal is to investigate resistance to language change. Contrary to the widespread assumption that this was a period of rapid changes, Anipa shows the intricacies of persistent variation during the Golden Age, drawing on literary data and a novel source: the testimony of contemporaneous grammarians.

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Language in Society , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , October 2002 , pp. 641 - 644
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2002 Cambridge University Press

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