
A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish
Hodder Education (Publisher)
5th Edition
Published on 27. May 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
608 pages
978-1-4441-3769-9 (ISBN)
Article exhausted; check for reprint
Description
For many years A NEW REFERENCE GRAMMAR OF MODERN SPANISH has been trusted by students and teachers as the standard English-language reference grammar of Spanish.
Now updated to include the latest findings of the Royal Spanish Academy's official grammar book, 'La Nueva gramA!tica de la lengua espaA+/-ola', making A NEW REFERENCE GRAMMAR OF MODERN SPANISH FIFTH EDITION even more relevant to students and teachers of Spanish.
Key features of this fifth edition include:
a 'Guide to the Book', enabling you to make the most of this new edition
new vocabulary such as topical and technological terms, bringing you up-to-date with contemporary spoken Spanish
more Latin-American Spanish, ensuring world-wide coverage
aclearer guidance to recommended usage
-advice on the Academy's latest spelling rules.
Whether a student or a teacher of Spanish, you can be sure that this fifth edition of A NEW REFERENCE GRAMMAR OF MODERN SPANISH will provide you with a comprehensive, cohesive and clear guide to the forms and structures of Spanish as it is written and spoken today in Spain and Latin America.
Now updated to include the latest findings of the Royal Spanish Academy's official grammar book, 'La Nueva gramA!tica de la lengua espaA+/-ola', making A NEW REFERENCE GRAMMAR OF MODERN SPANISH FIFTH EDITION even more relevant to students and teachers of Spanish.
Key features of this fifth edition include:
a 'Guide to the Book', enabling you to make the most of this new edition
new vocabulary such as topical and technological terms, bringing you up-to-date with contemporary spoken Spanish
more Latin-American Spanish, ensuring world-wide coverage
aclearer guidance to recommended usage
-advice on the Academy's latest spelling rules.
Whether a student or a teacher of Spanish, you can be sure that this fifth edition of A NEW REFERENCE GRAMMAR OF MODERN SPANISH will provide you with a comprehensive, cohesive and clear guide to the forms and structures of Spanish as it is written and spoken today in Spain and Latin America.
Reviews / Votes
The fifth edition reaffirms A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish as the most practical and comprehensive Spanish grammar book on the market. By illustrating grammar through references to English and other languages, the authors have created a unique resource, giving the English-speaking reader access to a wealth of knowledge about the Spanish language, explained in a clear, cohesive and effective way. This new edition is the first to incorporate the findings of the latest Nueva gramatica de la lengua espanola, published by the Real Academia Espanola, making it compulsory reading for students at all levels, academics, translators and professionals interested in mastering the intricacies of the Spanish language. - Javier Munoz-Basols, University of Oxford, UKThe 5th edition of Butt and Benjamin's New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish manages to improve an already outstanding text. It should be standard issue for all serious students of Spanish. - Ian MacKenzie, Professor of Spanish Linguistics, School of Modern Languages, Newcastle University, UK
A New Reference is a title we consider compulsory as a reference book for our students in the final year of their BA and BComm International programmes, and also at MA level. I also use it as a reference and I have always found it very useful. This new edition will be even more useful as it includes the new spelling and accent rules and a glossary of computing vocabulary. It is definitely the only grammar book in the market for final year graduate and postgraduate students. - Begona Sangrador-Vegas, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, National University of Ireland, Galway
More details
Series
Edition
5th New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 248 mm
Width: 174 mm
Weight
953 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4441-3769-9 (9781444137699)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
New editions

John Butt | Carmen Benjamin | Antonia Moreira Rodriguez
A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish
Book
11/2018
6th Edition
Routledge
€71.00
Shipment within 10-20 days
Additional editions

John Butt | Carmen Benjamin
A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish
Book
08/2015
5th Edition
Routledge
€163.42
Article exhausted; check for reprint
Previous edition

John B. Butt | John Butt | Carmen Benjamin
A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish, 4th edition
Book
04/2004
4th Edition
Hodder Arnold
€48.46
Article exhausted; check for reprint
Persons
JOHN BUTT, Emeritus Professor of Modern Hispanic Studies, King's College, London
CARMEN BENJAMIN, a native speaker of Spanish and a former lecturer in Spanish at King's College, London
CARMEN BENJAMIN, a native speaker of Spanish and a former lecturer in Spanish at King's College, London
Content
Preface to the fifth 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 Spanish 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 discourse markers
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
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 Spanish 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 discourse markers
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