MA Hispanic Linguistics Reading List

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This list contains the basic texts for each content area that all students are expected to have read by the time they take the Comprehensive Exam. Students are additionally responsible for all readings covered in the courses taken for the M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics. This list applies to all students who enter the program in Fall 2001 and later.

Spanish Syntax / Morphology

Bosque, Ignacio. 1989. Las categorías gramaticales . Madrid: Síntesis.

Fernández Lagunilla, Marina. 1995. Sintaxis y cognición . Madrid: Síntesis.

Hernanz, María Luisa & José María Brucart. 1987. La sintaxis . Barcelona: Crítica.

Lasnik, Howard & Juan Uriagereka. 1989. A course in GB syntax: Lectures on binding and empty categories . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Radford, Andrew. 1988. Transformational grammar: A first course . Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.

Scalise, Sergio. 1984. Generative Morphology . Dordrecht: Foris.

Varela, Soledad. 1988. Fundamentos de morfología . Madrid: Síntesis.

Webelhuth, Gert (ed.). 1995. Government and binding theory and the minimalist program . Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.

Spanish Phonetics / Phonology

Dalbor, John B. 1997. Spanish pronunciation: Theory and practice . New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.

Goldsmith, John A. (ed.). 1995. The handbook of phonological theory . Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.

Harris, James W. 1983. Syllable structure and stress in Spanish: A nonlinear analysis . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Ladefoged, Peter. 1982. A course in phonetics , 2 nd edition. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Núñez Cedeño, Rafael A. & Alfonso Morales-Front. 1999. Fonología generativa contemporánea de la lengua española . Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.

Spanish Sociolinguistics / Dialectology

Hudson, R. A. 1996. Sociolinguistics . Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.

Labov, William. 1972. Sociolinguistic patterns . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Lipski, John. 1994. Latin American Spanish . London: Longman.

López Morales, Humberto. 1989. Sociolingüística . Madrid: Gredos.

Roca, Ana (ed.). 2000. Research on Spanish in the United States: Linguistic issues and challenges . Somerville, MA: Cascadilla.

Silva-Corvalán, Carmen. 1989. Sociolingüística: Teoría y análisis . Madrid: Alhambra.

Zamora Vicente, Alonso. 1974. Dialectología española . Madrid: Gredos.

Applied Linguistics / Second Language Acquisition

Colombi, M. Cecilia & Francisco X. Alarcón (eds.). 1997. La enseñanza del español a hispanohablantes: Praxis y teoría . Boston: Houghton-Mifflin.

Klein, Wolfgang. 1986. Second language acquisition . Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.

Omaggio Hadley, Alice. 2001. Teaching language in context , 3 rd edition. Boston: Heinle & Heinle.

History of the Spanish Language

Lathrop, Thomas. 1984. Curso de gramática histórica . Barcelona: Ariel.

Penny, Ralph. 2000. Variation and change in Spanish . Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.

Resnick, Melvyn C. 1981. Introducción a la historia de la lengua española . Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.

General Linguistics

Chomsky, Noam. 1988. Language and problems of knowledge . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Pinker, Steven. 1994. The language instinct . New York: Harper Collins.

Reference Books

Bosque, Ignacio & Violeta Demonte (eds.). 1999. Gramática descriptiva de la lengua española , vol. 1-3. Madrid: Espasa Calpe.

Corominas, Joan, 1987. Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana , 3a. edición. Madrid: Gredos.

Lapesa, Rafael. 1981. Historia de la lengua española . Madrid: Gredos.

Lastra de Suárez, Yolanda. 1992. Sociolingüística para hispanoamericanos: Una introducción . México, D.F.: Colegio de México.

Lloyd, Paul M. 1993. Del latín al español . Madrid: Gredos.