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Article: Variation and Change in Spanish.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2003
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Variation and Change in Spanish. By RALPH PENNY. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000. x+284 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]; $59.95. ISBN 0-521-78045-4.
Variation and Change in Spanish details the historical development of the Spanish language in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America. It also encompasses a section on the features of Peninsular and Brazilian Portuguese, and in particular, their relationship and proximity to Spanish. In the preface Ralph Penny states that the aim is not 'to provide the reader with an exhaustive description of geographical variation in Spanish'; indeed, this book does differ from the more traditional tomes of Alonso Zamora Vicente ...