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| Author's Note | |
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| Preface | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What Is a Language History? | |
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| Why Study the History of Spanish? | |
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| Language Change | |
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| The Inexorability of Language Change | |
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| Changes in Progress | |
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| Language Change as Observed through Written Evidence | |
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| The Categories of Language Change | |
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| The Causes of Language Change | |
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| The Mechanism of Language Change | |
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| Sociolinguistics | |
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| Questions | |
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| The Genealogy of Spanish | |
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| Language Families | |
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| Some Important Language Families | |
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| The Indo-European Language Family | |
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| The Italic Branch | |
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| Bilingualism and Diglossia | |
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| Genealogy of Spanish | |
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| Questions | |
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| External History of the Iberian Peninsula up to the Thirteenth Century | |
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| The Iberian Peninsula before the Arrival of the Romans | |
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| The Romanization of the Iberian Peninsula | |
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| The End of the Roman Empire | |
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| The Visigothic Invasion | |
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| The Muslim Invasion | |
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| An Extinct Variety of Ibero-Romance: Mozarabic | |
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| The Reconquest | |
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| The Rise of Castilian | |
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| Questions | |
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| The Latin Language | |
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| Stages in the History of Latin | |
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| Phonology | |
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| Orthography and Pronunciation | |
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| Nominal Morphology | |
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| Verbal Morphology | |
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| Syntax | |
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| Text Analysis | |
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| Questions | |
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| From Latin to Medieval Castilian: Phonology | |
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| The Nature of Phonological Change | |
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| The Most Important Phonological Changes of the Romance Period | |
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| Phonological Derivations | |
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| Exceptions to Regular Phonological Change | |
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| Text Analysis | |
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| Alphonsine Orthography | |
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| Questions | |
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| From Latin to Medieval Castilian: Morphology and Syntax | |
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| Interdependence of Morphological and Syntactic Changes | |
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| Nominal Morphology | |
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| A Linguistic Myth: The Cacophony of the Pronoun Combination le lo | |
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| Verbal Morphology | |
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| Principal Syntactic Changes | |
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| Text Analysis | |
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| Lexical Archaisms in Alphonsine Prose | |
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| Questions | |
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| From Medieval Castilian to Modern Spanish | |
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| Political and Cultural History of Spain after the Middle Ages | |
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| An Archaic Dialect: Sephardi | |
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| Linguistic Changes | |
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| A Linguistic Myth: The Lisping King | |
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| Text Analysis | |
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| A Linguistic Myth: The Phonemic Character of Spanish Orthography | |
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| Questions | |
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| History of the Spanish Lexicon | |
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| Routes of Lexical Integration in Spanish | |
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| The Reduplicative Playful Template | |
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| Etymology | |
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| Stages in the History of the Spanish Lexicon | |
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| Questions | |
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| Spanish Dialectology | |
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| Varieties of Spanish in the Two Castiles | |
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| Andalusian | |
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| Canary Island Spanish | |
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| American Spanish | |
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| Demography of the Spanish Language | |
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| Four Distinctive Varieties of American Spanish | |
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| Spanish in the United States | |
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| Questions | |
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| Rudiments of Spanish Phonetics and Phonology | |
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| Glossary of Linguistic Terms | |
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| Maps | |
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| Works Cited | |
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| Index of Spanish Words Cited | |
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| Subject Index | |