Spanish Dialectology

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

A survey of the dialect structure of Spain and Spanish America, with brief mention of Catalan and Galician-Portuguese. Some attention will be paid to Sephardic or Judeo-Spanish, spoken by descendants of Jews expelled from Spain in the 14th and 15th centuries. While the main focus will be on accounting for phonological and morphological variation, syntactic and lexical features will be discussed where appropriate.