The Writer's Reference Guide to Spanish

by Foster, David William; Altamiranda, Daniel; Urioste-Azcorra, Carmen

• ISBN13: 9780292725126
• ISBN10: 0292725124
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr

Summary

Writers and editors of Spanish have long needed an authoritative guide to written language usage, similar to The MLA Style Manual and The Chicago Manual of Style. And here it is! This reference guide provides comprehensive information on how the Spanish language is copyedited for publication.The book covers these major areas: Language basics: capitalization, word division, spelling, and punctuation. Language conventions: abbreviations, professional and personal titles, names of organizations, and nationalities. Bibliographic format, particularly how Spanish differs from English. Spanish language forms of classical authors' names. Literary and grammatical terminology. Linguistic terminology. Biblical names and allusions. A dictionary of grammatical doubts, including usage, grammatical constructions of particular words and phrases, verbal irregularities, and gender variations.

Author Biography

Carmen de Urioste is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Arizona State University.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Punctuation	1	(3)
Spelling and Word Division	4	(5)
Spelling Rules and Variations	4	(1)
Accents	5	(1)
Prefixes	6	(1)
Word Division	6	(3)
Gender and Number Forms	9	(37)
Gender	9	(22)
Number	31	(15)
Word Formation	46	(29)
Affective Suffixes and Spelling Changes	46	(1)
Compound Words	47	(1)
Prefixes and Suffixes	47	(28)
Capitalization	75	(3)
General Rules	75	(1)
Calendar and Time Designations	76	(1)
Religious Names	76	(1)
Titles of Publications	77	(1)
Titles of Persons	78	(3)
Titles of Nobility	78	(1)
Religious Titles	78	(1)
Academic, Diplomatic, and Political Titles	79	(1)
Military Titles	80	(1)
Professions and Occupations	81	(25)
Terminology	106	(23)
Geographical Terms	106	(13)
Names of Organizations	119	(1)
Historical Terms	120	(9)
Citation of Books, Periodicals, and Other Works	129	(12)
Monographs	130	(6)
Periodicals	136	(1)
Book Chapters	137	(1)
Bibliography Preparation	138	(3)
Abbreviations	141	(18)
Appendix 1. Anonymous Spanish Classics	159	(2)
Appendix 2. Latin Authors	161	(3)
Appendix 3. Greek Authors	164	(2)
Appendix 4. Latin Expressions	166	(4)
Appendix 5. Literary and Dramaturgical Terminology	170	(9)
Appendix 6. Linguistic Terminology	179	(3)
Appendix 7. Common Biblical Allusions and References	182	(2)
Appendix 8. Common Classical Allusions and References	184	(3)
Appendix 9. Common Literary Allusions and References	187	(2)
A Dictionary of Spanish Grammatical and Lexical Doubts	189	(74)
Bibliography of Special Terminology	263	(4)
Bibliographical References	267	(2)
Index	269