SPN 530 - Spanish Linguistics Credits: 3

Deals with the grammatical structure of the modern Spanish language and addresses issues relating to phonetics, syntax, morphology, and semantics, all part of what is commonly referred to as grammar. Lectures grounded in practicality and consider the needs of teachers. Prescriptive norms of the language and the actual use of the language in its dialectal variations, including those found in the United States, will be studied. Practicality further emphasized with applications in the written language that will discuss common errors and pitfalls in this form of expression.