A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish, 4th edition: (Routledge Reference Grammars)

A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish is widely recognised as the standard English-language reference grammar of Spanish. It provides teachers and students of Spanish with a comprehensive, accessible and jargon-free guide to the forms and structures of the Spanish currently used in Spain and Latin America. This new edition has been carefully revised and updated, and its explanations have been checked against the findings of the Royal Spanish Academy's Gramática descriptiva de la lengua española and other new works in the field. Many new Peninsular and Latin American examples have been included, the English text has been thoroughly revised and in many places expanded or clarified. A glossary of grammatical terms has also been included. As a result this new version of 'B & B' should now be invaluable to an even wider readership ranging from intermediate to advanced students of Spanish. A Workbook is available for use with A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish, 4th edition; Practising Spanish Grammar by Christopher J Pountain and Teresa de Carlos. ISBN 0340 66223 9

Table of Contents:
Preface to the fourth edition Conventions, spelling and abbreviations 1 Gender of nouns 2 Plural of nouns 3 Articles 4 Adjectives 5 Comparison of adjectives and adverbs 6 Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns 7 Neuter article and neuter pronouns 8 Possessive adjectives and pronouns 9 Miscellaneous adjectives and pronouns 10 Numerals 11 Personal pronouns 12 Le/les and lo/la/los/las 13 Forms of verbs 14 Use of indicative (non-continuous) verb forms 15 Continuous forms of the verb 16 The subjunctive 17 The imperative 18 The infinitive 19 Participles 20 The gerund 21 Modal auxiliary verbs 22 Personal a 23 Negation 24 Interrogation and exclamations 25 Conditional sentences 26 Pronominal verbs 27 Verbs of becoming 28 Passive and impersonal sentences 29 Ser and estar 30 Existential sentences 31 Adverbs 32 Expressions of time 33 Conjunctions and connectors 34 Prepositions 35 Relative clauses and relative pronouns 36 Nominalizers and cleft sentences 37 Word order 38 Diminutive, augmentative and pejorative suffixes 39 Spelling, accent rules, punctuation and word division Glossary of grammatical terms Bibliography and sources Index of English words Index of Spanish words and grammatical points

About the Author :
John Butt, Emeritus Professor of Modern Hispanic Studies, King's College, London Carmen Benjamin, Formerly Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, King's College London

Review :
'The Butt and Benjamin New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish is an essential reference tool for all interested in the Spanish language. The most extensive and accurate single-volume comprehensive source of information on contemporary Spanish language currently in existence in the English language, it replaces and surpasses the Ramsey-Spaulding Textbook of Modern Spanish.' George DeMello, Professor of Hispanic Linguistics, University of Iowa 'The most important event to occur in the descriptive linguistics of Spanish for many years' The Times Higher Education Supplement