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A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish (Paperback, 1994 ed.)
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A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish (Paperback, 1994 ed.)
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(abridged and revised) This reference grammar offers intermediate
and advanced students a reason ably comprehensive guide to the
morphology and syntax of educated speech and plain prose in Spain
and Latin America at the end of the twentieth century. Spanish is
the main, usually the sole 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 vast geographical and
political diversity ensures that Spanish is a good deal less
unified than French, German or even English, the latter more or
less internationally standardized according to either American or
British norms. Until the 1960s, the criteria of internationally
correct Spanish were dictated by the Real Academia Espanola, but
the prestige of this institution has now sunk so low that its most
solemn decrees are hardly taken seriously - witness the fate of the
spelling reforms listed in the Nuevas normas de prosodia y
ortograjia, which were supposed to come into force in all
Spanish-speaking countries in 1959 and, nearly forty years later,
are still selectively ignored by publishers and literate persons
everywhere. The fact is that in Spanish 'correctness' is nowadays
decided, as it is in all living languages, by the consensus of
native speakers; but consensus about linguistic usage is obviously
difficult to achieve between more than twenty independent, widely
scattered and sometimes mutually hostile countries. Peninsular
Spanish is itself in flux."
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