Course code

GRR6723.HT

old course code

GRR6723

Course title in Estonian

Hispaania keele ajalugu

Course title in English

History of the Spanish Language

ECTS credits

4.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

The main objective is to study the origins and consecutive changes that have shaped the Spanish language as we know it throughout the history.

Brief description of the course

During each class, the language will be studied from two points of view: the historical context which brought about the transformations of the Spanish language and a more profound study of those semantic, lexical and phonological transformations.

Each class will start with a student presentation introducing the historical context surrounding a new change in the Spanish language, with a study of those to follow by using transcriptions. This study will be done following the cronological evolution of the language:

1. Latinization
2. Influence of Al-Andalus
3. The Dawn of the language: Gloss
4. Spread though the Camino de Santiago
5. Castilian Epic poems and heroes
6. The debates
7. Toledo School of Translators - first written prose
8. Tales (Castille and India)
9. El Arcipreste de Hista
10. La Celestina
11. Don Quijote
12. Spanish language sailing to the Americas. Creation of RAE.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
The students will be able to understand what historical changes have shaped almost each word of the Spanish language: the influences of latin, the arab heritage... Transcriptions and comparison with other romance languages will be made in order to understand how the linguistic substratum was crucial in its contact with different languages to shape the language as we know it today.

Teacher

Lektor Antonio Huertas

Study programmes containing that course

Liberal Arts in Humanities (KKLHB/15.HT)
Romance Languages and Cultures (GRRB/15.HT)
Humanities (KKHB/14.HT)
Romance Languages and Cultures (GRRB/14.HT)
Liberal Arts in Humanities (KKLHB/14.HT)
Liberal Arts in Humanities (KKLHB/13.HT)
Humanities (KKHB/13.HT)
Romance Languages and Cultures (GRRB/13.HT)
Liberal Arts in Humanities (KKLHB/12_1.HT)
Romance Languages and Cultures (GRRB/12.HT)
Romance Languages and Cultures (GRRB/00.HT)