Acknowledgments

This volume would not have been possible without the support and collaboration of many colleagues who served as reviewers, including Héctor Aponte (University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras), Osmer Balam (College of Wooster), José Luis Blas Arroyo (University Jaume 1), Anna Bartra (Universitat Autonoma of Barcelona), Mary E. Beaton (Denison University), Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza (Ohio State University), Ana María Carvalho (University of Arizona), Alicia Cipria (University of Alabama), Gibran Delgado (University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez), Ana de Prada Pérez (National University of Ireland, Maynooth), Jenny Dumont (Gettysburg College), Iraida Galarza (University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez), Timothy Gupton (University of Georgia), Chad Howe (University of Georgia), Matthew Kanwit (University of Pittsburgh), Carol Klee (University of Minnesota), Gillian Lord (University of Florida), Patrick Mather (University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras), Antje Muntendam (Florida State University), Yolanda Rivera (University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras), Aaron Roggia (Oklahoma State University), Liliana Sánchez (Rutgers University), Hiram Smith (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Eva-María Suárez Büdenbender (Shepherd University), (Jorge Valdés Kroff (University of Florida), Don Walicek (University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras), and Eva Michelle Wheeler (Oakwood University). To all of them we are extremely grateful, as well as to the authors whose work appears in this volume.

We also owe the completion of this book to a number of people who supported us in a variety of ways during its preparation: to the administrative and academic staff at the University of Puerto, Río Piedras for providing us with a great academic environment to research Spanish sociolinguistics from a variety of disciplines and points of view, especially Carmen Pérez and Bárbara Santana; to our colleagues from the University of Puerto Rico, particularly Rose Marie Santiago Villafañe, Amárilis Torres, Héctor Aponte, and Alexandra Morales; to the graduate students who helped us during this process, including Hernán Rosario, Cristina Martínez, Jonathan Cruz, and Jessica Vélez. We are deeply appreciative of Cristina Maymí for all her editorial assistance. Finally, we would like to express our profound gratitude to the series editors, Kimberly L. Geeslin and Jennifer Cabrelli Amaro, and to the editorial staff at John Benjamins Publishing Company for their assistance and support.