HISTORY OF THE SPANISH LANGUAGE. 3-

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Pre-requisites: SPAN 310 , SPAN 311 , SPAN 312 , and SPAN 322 , or SPAN 323 , SPAN 324 . Serves as an introduction to the history of the Spanish language by presenting an overview of the diachronic evolution of the current Modern Spanish language from Latin. It adopts a descriptive historical perspective to explore phonological, lexical, syntactic, and semantic change. It also studies historical facts as well as the different languages that shaped the Spanish language through history: pre-Roman Iberian languages, Latin, Greek, Arabic, French, and indigenous languages.