Current Research in Puerto Rican Linguistics

Melvin González-Rivera is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez.

• 1. Introduction 2. A variationist account of Puerto Rican subject personal pronoun expression 3. Interaction among cognitive constraints: The case of the pluralization of presentational haber in Puerto Rican Spanish 4. The Nature and Position of Subjects in Puerto Rican Spanish Wh-questions: Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Implications 5. Mitigation and indirectness in Puerto Rican, Dominican, Mexican Spanish in an institutional discourse setting 6. Phonetics and Phonology of /s?/ in the Spanish of Puerto Rico: Aspiration, Elision with Compensatory Lengthening, and Glottalization 7. Vowel Raising and Identity in the Highlands of Puerto Rico 8. Hiatus Resolution in Puerto Rican Spanish and Language Typology 9. On Puerto Rican Spanish Subjects