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Book SynopsisIt is estimated that there are currently more than 400 million Spanish speakers worldwide, with the United States being home to one of the world's largest native Spanish-speaking populations. Reflecting the increasing importance of the Spanish language both in the U.S.
Trade Review"The Handbook of Hispanic Linguistics is a remarkable compendium encompassing a wide range of scientific inquiry on the many facets of Spanish language structure and use. While presenting complex research, it remains clear and accessible, constituting a valuable resource for not only for linguistic scholars, but also for advanced Spanish learners, and anyone with an interest in the field." (LINGUIST, 24 June 2015)
“By combining the most crucial elements of current findings in theoretical and applied research, The Handbook of Hispanic Linguistics sheds new light on the increasing growth and importance of the Spanish language.” (Morforetem, 24 January 2014)
Table of ContentsList of Figures ix
List of Tables xi
Notes on Contributors xiii
Editors’ Note xxi
1 Geographical and Social Varieties of Spanish: An Overview 1
JOHN M. LIPSKI
2 The Spanish-based Creoles 27
J. CLANCY CLEMENTS
3 Spanish Among the Ibero-Romance Languages 47
CHRISTOPHER J. POUNTAIN
4 Spanish in Contact with Amerindian Languages 65
ANNA MARIA ESCOBAR
5 The Phonemes of Spanish 89
REBEKA CAMPOS-ASTORKIZA
6 Main Phonological Processes 111
FERNANDO MARTINEZ-GIL
7 Syllable Structure 133
SONIA COLINA
8 Stress and Rhythm 153
JOSE IGNACIO HUALDE
9 Intonation in Spanish 173
ERIN O’ROURKE
10 Morphophonological Alternations 193
DAVID EDDINGTON
11 Derivation and Compounding 209
SOLEDAD VARELA
12 Morphological Structure of Verbal Forms 227
MANUEL PEREZ SALDANYA
13 Forms of Address 247
BOB DE JONGE AND DORIEN NIEUWENHUIJSEN
14 Structure of the Noun Phrase 263
M. CARME PICALLO
15 Indefiniteness and Specificity 285
MANUEL LEONETTI
16 Quantification 307
JAVIER GUTIERREZ-REXACH
17 Structure of the Verb Phrase 333
JAUME MATEU
18 Tense and Aspect 355
KAREN ZAGONA
19 Mood: Indicative vs. Subjunctive 373
IGNACIO BOSQUE
20 The Simple Sentence 395
HECTOR CAMPOS
21 Clitics in Spanish 423
FRANCISCO ORDONEZ
22 Ser and Estar: The Individual/Stage-level Distinction and Aspectual Predication 453
JOSE CAMACHO
23 Passives and se Constructions 477
AMAYA MENDIKOETXEA
24 Coordination and Subordination 503
RICARDO ETXEPARE
25 Wh-movement: Interrogatives, Exclamatives, and Relatives 533
JERID FRANCOM
26 Binding: Deixis, Anaphors, Pronominals 557
LUIS EGUREN
27 Empty Categories and Ellipsis 579
JOSEP MARIA BRUCART AND JONATHAN E. MACDONALD
28 Word Order and Information Structure 603
ANTXON OLARREA
29 Speech Acts 629
VICTORIA ESCANDELL-VIDAL
30 Discourse Syntax 653
CATHERINE E. TRAVIS AND RENA TORRES CACOULLOS
31 Historical Morphosyntax and Grammaticalization 673
CONCEPCION COMPANY COMPANY
32 First Language Acquisition of Spanish Sounds and Prosody 693
CONXITA LLEO´
33 Spanish as a Second Language and Teaching Methodologies 711
CRISTINA SANZ
34 The L2 Acquisition of Spanish Phonetics and Phonology 729
MIQUEL SIMONET
35 Theoretical Perspectives on the L2 Acquisition of Spanish 747
SILVINA MONTRUL
36 Spanish as a Heritage Language 765
MARIAM. CARREIRA
37 Acquisition of Spanish in Bilingual Contexts 783
CARMEN SILVA-CORVALAN
38 Reading Words and Sentences in Spanish 803
MANUEL CARREIRAS, JON ANDONI DUNABEITIA, AND NICOLA MOLINARO
39 Language Impairments 827
JOSE MANUEL IGOA
40 Lexical Access in Spanish as a First and Second Language 847
ALBERT COSTA, IVA IVANOVA, CRISTINA BAUS, AND NURIA SEBASTIAN-GALLES
Index 865
