Linguistic Characteristics of the Spanish Language

Teachers

Included in study programs

Teaching results

Knowledge:
- Acquistion of knowledge of the typical features of the Spanish language (e.g., from a diachronic, diatopic, diastratic perspective) that distinguish it from other languages.
- Acquisition of knowledge of the current developmental tendencies in the Spanish language and its characteristics from a genealogical perspective.
- Acquisition of theoretical knowledge of the different linguistic levels of contemporary Spanish from a systems linguistics perspective and a basic knowledge of traditional linguistic disciplines.
- Acquisition of knowledge of the rules of orthography of the Spanish language.
- Acquisition of a thorough knowledge of morphology and syntax in particular: the student can list, define and identify morphological categories; student knows the morphological rules and the specifics related to the different inflectional verbal types in the Spanish language; knows the principles of the basic word-formation practices of the Spanish language; can list, define and identify sentence articles; knows the categorization of sentence types and the rules of sentence construction in the Spanish language.
Competencies:
- Acquisition of the competence to characterize the Spanish language from a linguistic perspective, with emphasis on the morphological and syntactic levels of the language.
- Acquisition of the competence to identify symptomatic linguistic expression in the Spanish language with respect to selected aspects of the diachronic, diatopic and diastral planes.
- Acquisition of competence to assess the orthographic correctness of linguistic expression in the Spanish language.
Skills:
- Acquisition of the ability to apply the above knowledge and competencies in a comprehensive way to the production of one's own linguistic expression in the Spanish language.

Indicative content

- Characteristics of the contemporary Spanish language, extension, use
- Typology of languages: Spanish within Romance languages
- European and American Spanish
- Contemporary Spanish language: phonetic-phonological and orthographic phenomena
- Contemporary Spanish: morphological phenomena
- Contemporary Spanish language: syntactic phenomena

Support literature

Recquired:
1. REAL ACADEMIA ESPAÑOLA, ASOCIACIÓN DE ACADEMIAS DE LA LENGUA ESPAÑOLA. Ortografía básica de la lengua española. Madrid: Espasa Libros, 2012, ISBN 978-84-670-0500-4
2. BOSQUE, Ignacio – DEMONTE, Violeta. Gramática descriptiva de la lengua española. Madrid: Espasa Libros, 2011, ISBN 9788423979189
3. GÓMEZ TORREGO, Leonardo. Hablar y escribir correctamente. Madrid: Arco/Libros S.L., 2011, ISBN 978-84-7635-645-8
4. SPIŠIAKOVÁ, Mária. El español actual: la unidad y la variedad. Nümbrecht: Kirsch-Verlag., 2016, ISBN 978-3-943906-27-1
Optional:
1. GÓMEZ TORREGO, Leonardo. Gramática didáctica del español. Madrid: Ediciones SM., 2007, ISBN 978-84-67541-35-9
2. RENZI, Lorenzo. Introducción a la filología románica. Madrid: Gredos, 1982, ISBN 978-84-24902-94-0

Requirements to complete the course

Interim evaluation: 30%
Final evaluation: 70%

Student workload

Full-time study: 104 hours. Of which:
26 hours – attendance at seminars
23 hours – preparation for seminars and for the interim evaluation
55 hours – preparation for the final exam

Language whose command is required to complete the course

Spanish

Date of approval: 09.02.2023

Date of the latest change: 06.05.2022