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Cultured borrowings

Christopher J. Pountain. 2019. ‘Sustantivos de género «ambiguo»: ¿adfuncionalización de una categoría morfológica redundante?‘. In María Luisa Arnal Purroy, Rosa María Castañer Martín, José María Enguita Utrilla, Vicente Lagüéns Gracia & María Antonia Martín Zorraquino (eds), Actas del X Congreso Internacional de Historia de la Lengua Española, vol. I, pp. 867-882. [Link to article (pdf format)]

Christopher J. Pountain and Isabel García Ortiz. 2019. ‘La investigación de las voces cultas a través de los corpus históricos’, Revista Internacional de Historia de la Lengua Española, 14 (2019), 47-76. [Link to publisher]

Christopher J. Pountain. 2020. ‘Transnational Dimensions in the History of Spanish’. In Catherine Davies & Rory O’Bryen (eds), Transnational Spanish Studies (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press), pp.43-57. ISBN: 978-1-789-62135-8 (hardback), 978-1-789-62136-5 (paperback). [Link to publisher]

Christopher J. Pountain. 2020. ‘Mi «último» saludo: historia de un préstamo culto’. In Carmen Escobedo de Tapia, Jorge Luis Bueno Alonso & Carolina Taboada Ferrero (eds), Contigo Aprendí: Estudios en homenaje al Profesor José Caramés Lage (Oviedo: Universidad de Oviedo), pp. 135-157. [Link to article (pdf format)]

Christopher J. Pountain. 2021. ‘Cultured borrowing of verbs: the case of the Spanish -ir conjugation’. In Christopher J. Pountain & Bozena Wislocka Breit (eds), New Worlds for Old Words / Mundos nuevos para viejas palabras. The impact of cultured borrowing on the languages of Western Europe / El impacto de los cultismos en los idiomas de Europa occidental. (Wilmington, Delaware / Málaga: Vernon Press), pp. 173-189. [Link to publisher]

Bozena Wislocka Breit. 2021. ‘“Classical” and “Modern Languages”’. In Christopher J. Pountain & Bozena Wislocka Breit (eds), New Worlds for Old Words / Mundos nuevos para viejas palabras. The impact of cultured borrowing on the languages of Western Europe / El impacto de los cultismos en los idiomas de Europa occidental. (Wilmington, Delaware / Málaga: Vernon Press), pp. 117-134. [Link to publisher]

Isabel García Ortiz. 2021. pp. 53-96. ‘Apuntes sobre la integración de un cultismo médico: la historia de la voz síntoma‘. In Christopher J. Pountain & Bozena Wislocka Breit (eds), New Worlds for Old Words / Mundos nuevos para viejas palabras. The impact of cultured borrowing on the languages of Western Europe / El impacto de los cultismos en los idiomas de Europa occidental. (Wilmington, Delaware / Málaga: Vernon Press), pp. 53-69. [Link to publisher]

Rocío Díaz-Bravo and Gael Vaamonde. 2021. ‘Los cultismos en una novela dialogada del siglo XVI: un estudio de sociolingüística histórica‘. In Christopher J. Pountain & Bozena Wislocka Breit (eds), New Worlds for Old Words / Mundos nuevos para viejas palabras. The impact of cultured borrowing on the languages of Western Europe / El impacto de los cultismos en los idiomas de Europa occidental. (Wilmington, Delaware / Málaga: Vernon Press), pp. 211-229. [Link to publisher]

Christopher J. Pountain and Bozena Wislocka Breit (eds). 2021. New Worlds for Old Words / Mundos nuevos para viejas palabras. The impact of cultured borrowing on the languages of Western Europe / El impacto de los cultismos en los idiomas de Europa occidental. (Wilmington, Delaware / Málaga: Vernon Press). [Link to publisher]

Christopher J. Pountain, Bozena Wislocka Breit, Rocío Díaz Bravo and Isabel García Ortiz, 2021. ‘How old words become new (and then old again)’, in Catherine Boyle and Debra Kelly (eds), Language Acts and Worldmaking, How and Why the Languages We Use Shape Our World and Lives. (London: John Murray Learning), pp. 166-209. [Link to publisher]

Christopher J. Pountain, 2022. ‘The Spanish “present participle”: lexical elaboration of a morphosyntactic gap?’, Romanistisches Jahrbuch, 73 (1), 299-328. [Link to article]

Christopher J. Pountain, 2023. ‘Tracing “change from above”: the diastratic and diaphasic trajectory of Spanish cultured borrowings’, in Adina Dragomirescu, Carmen Mîrzea Vasile, Cristian Moroianu, Isabela Nedelcu & Andra Vasilescu (eds), Rodica Zafiu: lingvista, profesoara, colega, prietena (Bucureşti: Editura Universității din Bucureşti / Bucharest University Press), pp. 719-732. [Link to publisher]

Modern Languages curriculum

Christopher J. Pountain. 2017. ‘The Three Ls of Modern Foreign Languages: Language, Linguistics, Literature’, Hispanic Research Journal, 18:3, 253-271. [Link to article]

Christopher J. Pountain. 2019. ‘Modern Languages as an academic discipline: the linguistic component’, Language, Culture and Curriculum, 32.3, 244-260. DOI: 10.1080/07908318.2019.1661153. [Link to article]

Díaz-Bravo, Rocío, Silvia Acid Carrillo y Juan Manuel Fernández-Luna. 2020. ‘Lengua y Tecnología: una plataforma colaborativa para la enseñanza-aprendizaje de variedades del español’. In Inmaculada Aznar Díaz, María Pilar Cáceres Reche, José María Romero Rodríguez & José Antonio Marín Marín (eds), Investigación e innovación educativa: tendencias y retos, (Madrid: Dykinson), Chapter 54, pp. 771-784 . http://hdl.handle.net/10481/63201.

Christopher J. Pountain (curated and introduced). 2021. ‘Linguistics in modern language teaching’. In Ana de Medeiros & Debra Kelly (eds), Language Debates: Theory and Reality in Language Learning, Teaching and Research (London: John Murray), pp. 57-59.

Christopher J. Pountain. 2021. ‘Where has all the grammar gone?’. In Ana de Medeiros & Debra Kelly (eds), Language Debates: Theory and Reality in Language Learning, Teaching and Research (London: John Murray), pp. 60-73.

Mary Wenham. 2021. ‘Metalinguistic awareness: Bridging the gap between L1 and L2’. In Ana de Medeiros & Debra Kelly (eds), Language Debates: Theory and Reality in Language Learning, Teaching and Research (London: John Murray), pp. 74-87.

Jonathan Kasstan, Claire Robinson, Michelle Sheehan and Janette Swainston. 2021. ‘A French linguistics co-creation project’. In Ana de Medeiros & Debra Kelly (eds), Language Debates: Theory and Reality in Language Learning, Teaching and Research (London: John Murray), pp. 88-104.

Rocío Díaz-Bravo, 2021. ‘Students as linguists and teachers’. In Ana de Medeiros & Debra Kelly (eds), Language Debates: Theory and Reality in Language Learning, Teaching and Research (London: John Murray), pp. 105-116.

Christopher J. Pountain & Elizabeth Thornton. 2021. ‘Linguistics for 11-12 year olds: Chris Pountain interviews Elizabeth Thornton’. In Ana de Medeiros & Debra Kelly (eds), Language Debates: Theory and Reality in Language Learning, Teaching and Research (London: John Murray), pp. 117-124.

Irene Macías Fernández & Christopher J. Pountain. 2023. El mundo hispanohablante en textos / Reading the Spanish-Speaking World (London & New York: Routledge). ISBN 9780367349448, 9780367349455 and 9780429328886. DOI: 10.4324/9780429328886. https://www.routledge.com/El-mundo-hispanohablante-en-textos--Reading-the-Spanish-Speaking-World/Fernandez-Pountain/p/book/9780367349448.