This comprehensive introduction to Spanish linguistics is tailored to the needs of B.A. programs and also considers recent approaches, including those in the fields of cognitive linguistics and sentence semantics. The first part of the volume provides an overview of the fundamentals of grammar as well as pragmatics, text, and corpus linguistics. The second part addresses the varieties of Spanish, such as regional languages, Spanish in Latin America and the USA, and discusses language contact and multilingualism, as well as Spanish as a pluricentric global language. A third part on the history of the language presents the periodization and development of Spanish, along with phenomena of language change. The book features a two-color layout with numerous definitions and examples, graphics, and illustrations. Recommended for B.A. students. Selling points: Spanish is the Roma.