David Pharies
Auteur de A Brief History of the Spanish Language
A propos de l'auteur
David Pharies is professor of Spanish and linguistics and chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Florida
Œuvres de David Pharies
Diccionario etimológico de los sufijos españoles y de otros elementos finales (2002) 2 exemplaires
Spanish Dictionary 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The University of Chicago Spanish Dictionary (1948) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 1,876 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1951-11-07
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 7
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 101
- Popularité
- #188,710
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 18
- Langues
- 1
While the individual pieces of information are interesting to encounter, it’s still a textbook at heart, with questions at the each chapter and everything. Of the books I’ve now read on linguistic history now, this one is better and more interesting than Antonsen’s Elements of German but not as good as Ostler’s Ad Infinitum. A more robust speaker of Spanish will gain a fair deal of insight from this text and may even find ways to shape their fluency, but in the end, it was only ho-hum for me.… (plus d'informations)