1. Spanish word-formation.
- Introduction.
- Morphological polysemy.
- Morphological synonymy and antonymy.
- Morphological productivity and blocking.
2. Word relations.
- Syntactic-semantic relations.
- Syntagmatic relations.
- Paradigmatic relations:
- Relations of inclusion.
- Relations of identity.
- Relations of exclusion and opposition.
3. Language and context.
- Speech acts.
- Cooperative principle.
- Conversational maxims.
- Violations of the cooperative principle.
- Relevance theory.
- Informative structure in discourse.
4. Spanish varieties.
- Introduction: linguistic change.
- Spanish dialects
- Language and dialect.
- Historical dialects of Spanish language.
- Dialects of castilian.
- Diachronic, diastratic and diaphasic varieties.
5. The norm of Spanish language.
- The concept of the norm. Norm and standard language.
- Different degrees in the norm.
- The particular situation of the Spanish norm.
- Sources for the study of the norm.