Stevenson C.H. The Spanish Language Today

Hutchinson, 1970. — 156 p.The principal aim of this work is to present a brief survey of Spanish, not a study of grammar, which is bound to be concerned with the details rather than the overlying character of a language. While grammatical theory has in general been avoided, certain theories which concern the language as a whole have been introduced, since this seemed the right place to do it. It would naturally be pleasing if future material for the teaching and learning of Spanish could adopt certain new standpoints, for example a change from the traditional and not very helpful theory of tenses, or a fresh look at the subjunctive-indicative opposition. But this book does not claim to change any particular methodology. Certain ideas, not necessarily original, have been included for the reader’s consideration. He may reject them, modify them, improve on them. That he should blindly accept them would be to misunderstand the book’s purpose.