Bilingual Grammar of English-Spanish Syntax (eBook)

Sam Hill is professor emeritus of Spanish and Portuguese and has taught all levels of both languages at California State University, Sacramento over a 35 year career. His is the primary author of the first two editions of this text. He continues to travel and on occasion is called back to teaching.María Mayberry is associate professor of Spanish at California State University, Sacramento and author of several scholarly articles in Hispania. She has a continuing research interest in language acquisition. She teaches graduate seminars in comparative grammars and applied linguistics. Edward Baranowski, is professor of Spanish at California State University, Sacramento, and teaches all levels of Spanish. He has translated several texts written by early Spanish explorers in California. He teaches graduate seminars in dialectology and history of the language.

Basic Word Order in English and SpanishEnglish Verb MorphologySpanish Regular Verb MorphologySpanish Irregular Verb MorphologyThe Comparative Syntax of Statements and QuestionsA Question of Aspect: The Spanish Imperfect-Preterite ContrastThe Spanish Indicative and Subjunctive MoodsEnglish Modal Auxiliaries and Their Spanish EquivalentsEnglish Phrasal VerbsEnglish To Be vs. Spanish Ser, Estar and HaberEnglish and Spanish Personal PronounsGustar, Hacer, Tener and DarTransitivity, Pronominal Verbs and Indefinite SubjectsThe English and Spanish Imperative SystemsThe Present Participle (Gerund) and the InfinitivePassive ConstructionsConditional Sentences and Unreal Comparison Spanish and English Verb + Preposition ConstructionsNouns and Articles; Possessive and Partitive ConstructionsDescriptive and Limiting AdjectivesPossessive and Demonstrative Adjectives and PronounsAdverbs and PrepositionsInterrogatives, Admiratives, Ellipsis and Verification TagsSpanish and English ContractionsDegrees of ComparisonRelative Words Used Between ClausesAffirmative Words and their Negative CounterpartsAppendix IAppendix IIAppendix IIIAppendix IVGlossary of Grammatical TermsBibliographyIndexAbout the Authors