A manuscript of the Cantar de mio Cid, 13th century
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Spanish is a grammatically inflected language, which means that many words are modified ("marked") in small ways, usually at the end, according to their changing functions. Verbs are marked for tense, aspect, mood, person, and number (resulting in up to fifty conjugated forms per verb). Nouns follow a two-gender system and are marked for number. Personal pronouns are inflected for person, number, gender (including a residual neuter), and a very reduced case system; the Spanish pronominal system represents a simplification of the ancestral Latin system.
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Spanish was the first of the European vernaculars to have a grammar treatise, Gramática de la lengua castellana, published in 1492 by the Andalusian philologist Antonio de Nebrija and presented to Queen Isabella of Castile at Salamanca.[1]
The Real Academia Española (RAE, Royal Spanish Academy) traditionally dictates the normative rules of the Spanish language, as well as its orthography.
Differences between formal varieties of Peninsular and American Spanish are remarkably few, and someone who has learned the language in one area will generally have no difficulties of communication in the other; however, pronunciation does vary, as well as grammar and vocabulary.
Recently published comprehensive Spanish reference grammars in English include DeBruyne (1996), Butt & Benjamin (2011), and Batchelor & San José (2010).
^Kamen, Henry (2003). Empire: How Spain Became a World Power, 1492–1763. HarperCollins. p. 3.
pronunciation does vary, as well as grammar and vocabulary. Recently published comprehensive Spanish reference grammars in English include DeBruyne (1996)...
as a grammar, or as a grammar book. A reference book describing the grammar of a language is called a "reference grammar" or simply "a grammar". A fully...
Llorach, Emilio (1994). Gramática de la lengua española [Grammar of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish). Espasa-Calpe. ISBN 84-239-7840-0. Bosque, Ignacio (2012)...
Grammar of Modern Spanish, Chapter 34: "Prepositions". 4th edition, 2004; 5th edition, 2011. Ramsey, Marathon Montrose. A Textbook of Modern Spanish (New...
Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish. 6th ed., Routledge, 2019. Section 1.1. Kattán-Ibarra, Juan, and Christopher J. Pountain. Modern SpanishGrammar. 2nd ed...
prepositions. Spanish is a pro-drop language with respect to subject pronouns. Like French and other languages with the T–V distinction, Spanish has a distinction...
Spanish verbs are a complex area of Spanishgrammar, with many combinations of tenses, aspects and moods (up to fifty conjugated forms per verb). Although...
Spanish verbs form one of the more complex areas of Spanishgrammar. Spanish is a relatively synthetic language with a moderate to high degree of inflection...
organized by the company of the Gai Saber in both grammar and rhetorical ways. Chronologically, Spanish (more accurately, lengua castellana) has a development...
The Spanish language uses determiners in a similar way to English. The main differences are that Spanish determiners inflect for gender (masculine/feminine...
accepted. How is my Spanish: Spanish conjugation charts Spanish conjugation chart. Chart to conjugate in 7 different Spanish tenses. SpanishBoat: Verb conjugation...
inflectionally irregular adjectives in Spanish are those that have irregular comparative forms, and only four do. Spanish adjectives are generally postpositive...
suspender), are nowadays used solely as adjectives, not as participles, and are therefore no longer considered as such. Spanish verbs Spanish conjugation...
important contributions were in the fields of grammar and lexicography. Nebrija was the author of the SpanishGrammar (Gramática de la lengua castellana, 1492)...
IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Spanish orthography is the orthography used in the Spanish language. The alphabet uses the Latin script....
The Royal Spanish Academy (Spanish: Real Academia Española, generally abbreviated as RAE) is Spain's official royal institution with a mission to ensure...
switches Grammar mistakes in Spanish found among transitional bilingual speakers Second-language Spanish, including poor translations Mock Spanish In the...
after prepositions. Spanish is a pro-drop language with respect to subject pronouns, and, like many European languages, Spanish makes a T-V distinction...
Portuguese and Spanish, although closely related Romance languages, differ in many aspects of their phonology, grammar, and lexicon. Both belong to a...
Universal grammar (UG), in modern linguistics, is the theory of the innate biological component of the language faculty, usually credited to Noam Chomsky...
Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish (5th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-1-4441-3769-9. Cressey, William Whitney (1978). Spanish Phonology...
Hispanic studies or Spanish studies) is the study of the literature and culture of the Spanish-speaking world, principally that of Spain and Hispanic America...
not follow traditional grammar, is difficult to pronounce, and is disrespectful toward conventional Spanish; the Royal Spanish Academy style guide does...
In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun (glossed PRO) is a word or a group of words that one may substitute for a noun or noun phrase. Pronouns have traditionally...
In Spanishgrammar, voseo (Spanish pronunciation: [boˈseo]) is the use of vos as a second-person singular pronoun, along with its associated verbal forms...
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