Full Description
Inquires in Hispanic Linguistics: From Theory to Empirical Evidence showcases eighteen chapters from formal and empirical approaches related to Spanish syntax and semantics, phonetics and phonology, and language contact and variation. Drawing on data from a number of monolingual and contact Spanish varieties, this volume represents the most current themes and methods in the field of Hispanic linguistics. The book brings together both established and emerging scholars, and readers will appreciate the variety of theoretical approaches, ranging from generative to variationist perspectives. The book is geared towards researchers and students in Spanish and Romance linguistics. Given its scope and quality, this volume is also well-suited for graduate courses in Spanish morphosyntax, phonetics, sociolinguistics, and language contact and change.
Contents
1. Preface; 2. Introduction (by Cuza, Alejandro); 3. Towards a theory of assertion structure: Higher and lower focus in Colombian Spanish (by Camacho, Jose); 4. Towards a theory of pronominal verb constructions in Spanish (by Armstrong, Grant); 5. On the grammaticality of recomplementation in Spanish (by Frank, Joshua); 6. Synchronic change in a multidialectal Spanish community: Evidence from null and postverbal subjects (by Dominguez, Laura); 7. Exploring the syntax-semantics-prosody interface: Complement clauses in conversation (by Steuck, Jonathan); 8. Generalized gradability and extremeness in Puerto Rican Spanish (by Padilla-Reyes, Ramon); 9. On the mistaken identity of negated epistemics (by Gielau, Elizabeth); 10. The mestizo speech: Participant selection and task choice in L2 speech (by Colantoni, Laura); 11. Stressed clitics in Argentine Spanish: Which way does the clitic lean? (by Klassen, Gabrielle); 12. On the simplification of a prosodic inventory: The Afro-Bolivian Spanish case (by Sessarego, Sandro); 13. Segmental anchoring in Peruvian Amazonian Spanish intonation (by Garcia, Miguel); 14. The prosody-pragmatics interface in the pragmaticalization of !Hombre! as a discourse marker (by Regan, Brendan); 15. Sociolinguistic implications on perception: The case of the posterior /r/ in Puerto Rican Spanish (by Delgado-Diaz, Gibran); 16. Vosotros, ustedes, and the myth of the symmetrical Castilian pronoun system (by Morgan, Terrell A.); 17. Microvariation in the Null Subject Parameter: Word order in Cuban Spanish (by Civitello, Ashlee Dauphinais); 18. An analysis of subjunctive frequency and semantic predictors of mood in Central Argentinian Spanish (by Gallego, Muriel); 19. The future is in the past: A diachronic analysis of variable future-in-the-past expression in Spanish (by Daidone, Danielle); 20. Double possession in Peruvian Amazonian Spanish (by Rodriguez-Mondonedo, Miguel); 21. Index
