The Cambridge handbook of Spanish linguistics /

The field of Spanish linguistics has a long-standing history, with an ever-increasing presence across multiple sub-fields of linguistic inquiry. This edited volume provides a state-of-the-art survey of the field of Spanish linguistics, striking a balance between depth of coverage in the most widely...

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Other Authors: Geeslin, Kimberly L. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Series:Cambridge handbooks in language and linguistics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Kimberly L. Geeslin
  • Part I. Theories and Approaches to Hispanic Linguistics
  • Generative linguistics: syntax / Paula Kempchinsky
  • Optimality theory and Spanish-Hispanic linguistics / D. Eric Holt
  • Usage-based approaches to Spanish linguistics / Esther Brown
  • Functional-typological approaches to Hispanic linguistics / Rosa Vallejos
  • Psycholinguistic approaches to Hispanic linguistics / Tania Leal and Christine Shea
  • Corpus approaches to the study of language, variation and change / Manuel Diaz-Campos and Juan Escalona Torres
  • Part II. The Spanish Sound System
  • The Spanish vowel system / Rebecca Ronquest
  • Consonants / Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza
  • The Spanish syllable / Alfonso Morales
  • Prosody: stress, rhythm and intonation / Pilar Prieto and Paolo Roseano
  • Speech perception / Amanda Boomershine and Ji Young Kim
  • Part III. Spanish Morphosyntax and Meaning
  • Word phenomena in Spanish: category definition and word formation / Antonio Fabregas
  • Properties of pronominal subjects / Pekka Posio
  • Properties of verb phrase: argument structure, ellipsis and negation / Ivan Ortega-Santos
  • Properties of the extended verb phrase: agreement, the structure of INFL, and subjects in Spanish / Julio Villa-Garcia
  • Properties of nominal expressions / M. Emma Ticio Quesada
  • Information structure / Laura Dominguez
  • Syntax and its interfaces / Timothy Gupton
  • Lexis / Grant Armstrong
  • Pragmatics / Maria Hasler-Barker
  • Part IV. Spanish in Social, Geographic and Historical Contexts
  • Spanish in contact with other languages and bilingualism across the Spanish-speaking world / Lotfi Sayahi
  • Heritage speakers of Spanish / Diego Pascual y Cabo
  • Geographic varieties of Spanish / Elena Fernandez de Molina Ortes and Juan M. Hernandez-Campoy
  • Sociolinguistic approaches to dialectal, sociolectal, and idiolectal variation in the Hispanophone world / Daniel Erker
  • National and diasporic Spanish varieties as evidence of ethnic affiliations / Almeida Jacqueline Toribio
  • Current perspectives on historical linguistics / Patricia Amaral
  • Grammaticalization / Chad Howe
  • Part V. The Acquisition of Spanish
  • Child language acquisition / Anna Gavarro
  • Theories of second language learning / Bill VanPatten
  • The L2 acquisition of Spanish sounds / Megan Solon
  • The acquisition of L2 Spanish Morphosyntax / Jason Rothman, Jorge Gonzalez Alonso and David Miller
  • Variation in L2 Spanish / Matthew Kanwit
  • Third language acquisition / Jennifer Cabrelli Amaro and Michael Iverson.