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Hispanic Linguistics
Current issues and new directions
This volume addresses a wide range of phenomena including intonation, restructuring, clitic climbing, aspectual structure, subject focus marking, code-switching, lenition, loanwords, and heritage learning that are central in Hispanic linguistics today. The authors approach these issues from a variety of recent theoretical approaches and innovative methodologies and make important contributions to our current understanding of language acquisition, theoretical and descriptive linguistics, and language contact. This collection of articles is a testimony to the breadth and degree of specialization of the scholarly interest in the field. The selection of refereed chapters included in this volume were originally presented at the 20th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS) hosted at Georgetown University, 2016. The book should be read with interest by scholars and graduate students hoping to gain insight into the issues currently debated in Hispanic Linguistics.
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 26] 2020. vi, 344 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 17 April 2020
Published online on 17 April 2020
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- IntroductionAlfonso Morales-Front, Michael J. Ferreira, Ronald P. Leow and Cristina Sanz | pp. 1–8
- Part I. Language acquisition
- The development of intonation in L2 Spanish: A perceptual studyAnel Brandl, Carolina González and Amy Bustin | pp. 11–32
- Insights into the cognition of mood selection in L2 learners of SpanishJoseph Collentine and Karina Collentine | pp. 33–52
- The licensing of wh-in-situ questions: Intonational evidence from SpanishCarolina González and Lara Reglero | pp. 53–74
- What derivational suffixes should we teach in Spanish as a Second Language courses?Claudia H. Sánchez-Gutiérrez, Nausica Marcos Miguel and Pablo Robles García | pp. 75–94
- Part II. Theoretical and descriptive approaches
- The seem-class verb paradigm and restructuring in RomanceAbel Cruz Flores | pp. 97–118
- The Progressive-to-Imperfective shift: Contextually determined variation in Rioplatense, Iberian, and Mexican Altiplano SpanishMartín Fuchs, Ashwini Deo and María Mercedes Piñango | pp. 119–136
- The aspectual structure of the adjective: Spanish ser and estarAlfredo García-Pardo and Mythili Menon | pp. 137–160
- Mood in future-framed adverbials: Pragmatic alternations in Rioplatense SpanishMark Hoff | pp. 161–182
- Syntactic and prosodic marking of subject focus in American English and Peninsular SpanishCovadonga Sánchez-Alvarado | pp. 183–204
- Part III. Language contact and variation
- Demystifying Salvadoran [sθ]: Evidence for /s/ lenitionFranny D. Brogan | pp. 207–228
- Afro-Peruvian Spanish declarative intonation: Analysis and implicationsBrianna Butera, Sandro Sessarego and Rajiv Rao | pp. 229–248
- Subject-predicate code-switching: Testing the need of a matrix language through embeddingBryan Koronkiewicz | pp. 249–264
- The differing behavior of loanwords in the Spanish of technology and of fashion and beautyRegina Morin and Damián Robles | pp. 265–284
- Futurity and probability in Spanish as a heritage languageDiego Pascual y Cabo and Gema Vela | pp. 285–302
- Examining the (mini-) variable swarm in the Spanish of the SoutheastRebecca Ronquest, Jim Michnowicz, Eric Wilbanks and Claudia Cortés | pp. 303–326
- Casting light on the Spanish creole debate: A legal perspectiveSandro Sessarego | pp. 327–342
- Index | pp. 343–344
“[...] this volume constitutes a valuable addition to the field. The articles offer informed answers to the research questions proposed and, perhaps more importantly, they pose paths for further research. For the novice or experienced scholar, it will be a springboard that fosters renewed dialogue and new investigations in coming years.”
Miguel García, Georgia Southern University, on Linguist List 33.1437 (2022)
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2024. Introduction. In Recent developments in Hispanic linguistics [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 41], ► pp. 1 ff.
Butera, Brianna, Rajiv Rao & Maryann Parada
Michnowicz, Jim, Rebecca Ronquest, Sarah Chetty, Georgia Green & Stephanie Oliver
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