Table of Contents

1: Language Contact and the History of the Spanish Lexicon: General and methodological questions
2: The Lexical Impact of the Pre-Roman Languages of the Iberian Peninsula
3: The Latin Base of the Spanish Lexicon
4: The Germanic Component of the Spanish Lexicon
5: The Arabic Component of the Spanish Lexicon
6: The Impact of Gallo-Romance on the Spanish Lexicon
7: The Influence of Italian on the Spanish Lexicon
8: Latinisms in Spanish
9: Portuguese and Catalan Loans in Spanish
10: Lexical Borrowings From the New World
11: Anglicisms in Spanish
12: Some Final Thoughts
References
Index Verborum
General Index

About the Author

Steven N. Dworkin is Professor of Romance Linguistics and Linguistics at the University of Michigan. His books include Etymology and Derivational Morphology: The Genesis of Old Spanish Denominal Adjectives in -ido (Niemeyer, 1985); with David J. Billick, Lexical Studies of Medieval Spanish Texts (second edition Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 1993); and, co-edited with Dieter Wanner, New approaches to Old Problems: Issues in Romance
Historical Linguistic (John Benjamins, 2000). He is the author of over eighty scholarly articles, many of which deal with lexical change in Spanish.

Reviews

The scholarship in this book is, without question, of the highest calibre. This book will benefit greatly both advanced students and scholars of Spanish historical linguistics, and, as a pedagogical tool, could serve either as supplementary reading for a course on the history of the Spanish language or as the main text for a seminar on the topic for advanced undergraduate and graduate students.
*Joel Rini, Bulletin of Spanish Studies*

Dworkins book is a lively and entertaining discussion of the history of the Spanish lexicon. The approach made this book difficult to put down. The books accessibility makes it a joy to read, suitable for beginning students, and yet rigorous enough for Hispanists. More books should be written in a way that encourages future students to undertake studies in the field.
*Diachronica*

This History will probably be used as a reference book rather than as a good read, but the scholarly perspectives and thought processes displayed should even so impress and inspire all those who have ever wondered about the hows and whys of the provenance of Spanish vocabulary from other languages.
*Roger Wright, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies*

a lively and entertaining discussion of the history of the Spanish lexicon.
*John M. Ryan, Diachronica*