Description
A state-of-the-art, in-depth survey of the topics, approaches and theories in Spanish linguistics today. The language is researched from a number of different perspectives. This Handbook surveys the major advances and findings, with a special focus on recent accomplishments in the field. It provides an accurate and complete overview of research, as well as facilitating future directions. It encourages the reader to make connections between chapters and units, and promotes cross-theoretical dialogue. The contributions are by a wide range of specialists, writing on topics including corpus linguistics, phonology and phonetics, morphosyntax, pragmatics, the role of the speaker and speech context, language acquisition and grammaticalization. This is a must-have volume for researchers looking to contextualize their own research and for students seeking a one-stop resource on Spanish linguistics.
Table of Contents
Introduction Kimberly L. Geeslin; Part I. Theories and Approaches to Hispanic Linguistics: 1. Generative linguistics: syntax Paula Kempchinsky; 2. Optimality theory and Spanish/Hispanic linguistics D. Eric Holt; 3. Usage-based approaches to Spanish linguistics Esther Brown; 4. Functional-typological approaches to Hispanic linguistics Rosa Vallejos; 5. Psycholinguistic approaches to Hispanic linguistics Tania Leal and Christine Shea; 6. Corpus approaches to the study of language, variation and change Manuel Díaz-Campos and Juan Escalona Torres; Part II. The Spanish Sound System: 7. The Spanish vowel system Rebecca Ronquest; 8. Consonants Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza; 9. The Spanish syllable Alfonso Morales; 10. Prosody: stress, rhythm and intonation Pilar Prieto and Paolo Roseano; 11. Speech perception Amanda Boomershine and Ji Young Kim; Part III. Spanish Morphosyntax and Meaning: 12. Word phenomena in Spanish: category definition and word formation Antonio Fábregas; 13. Properties of pronominal subjects Pekka Posio; 14. Properties of verb phrase: argument structure, ellipsis and negation Iván Ortega-Santos; 15. Properties of the extended verb phrase: agreement, the structure of INFL, and subjects in Spanish Julio Villa-García; 16. Properties of nominal expressions M. Emma Ticio Quesada; 17. Information structure Laura Domínguez; 18. Syntax and its interfaces Timothy Gupton; 19. Lexis Grant Armstrong; 20. Pragmatics Maria Hasler-Barker; Part IV. Spanish in Social, Geographic and Historical Contexts: 21. Spanish in contact with other languages and bilingualism across the Spanish-speaking world Lotfi Sayahi; 22. Heritage speakers of Spanish Diego Pascual y Cabo; 23. Geographic varieties of Spanish Elena Fernández de Molina Ortés and Juan M. Hernández-Campoy; 24. Sociolinguistic approaches to dialectal, sociolectal, and idiolectal variation in the Hispanophone world Daniel Erker; 25. National and diasporic Spanish varieties as evidence of ethnic affiliations Almeida Jacqueline Toribio; 26. Current perspectives on historical linguistics Patrícia Amaral; 27. Grammaticalization Chad Howe; Part V. The Acquisition of Spanish: 28. Child language acquisition Anna Gavarró; 29. Theories of second language learning Bill VanPatten; 30. The L2 acquisition of Spanish sounds Megan Solon; 31. The acquisition of L2 Spanish Morphosyntax Jason Rothman, Jorge González Alonso and David Miller; 32. Variation in L2 Spanish Matthew Kanwit; 33. Third language acquisition Jennifer Cabrelli Amaro and Michael Iverson; Author index; Subject index.
