José Ignacio Hualde is Professor in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese and in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His books include Basque Phonology (1991),Euskararen azentuerak [the accentual systems of Basque] (1997), and The Sounds of Spanish (2005).Antxon Olarrea is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona. He is author of Orígenes del lenguaje y selección natural (2005), coauthor of Introducción a la lingüística hispánica (2001, 2nd ed. 2010), and coeditor of Romance Linguistics 2009 (2010).Erin O'Rourke is Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Classics at the University of Alabama. She is co-editor of Romance Linguistics 2007 (2009) and has published articles and book chapters on intonation and sociophonetics in Spanish and Quechua, with an emphasis on the Andean region.

"The Handbook of Hispanic Linguistics is a remarkable compendium encompassing a wide range of scientific inquiry on the many facets of Spanish language structure and use. While presenting complex research, it remains clear and accessible, constituting a valuable resource for not only for linguistic scholars, but also for advanced Spanish learners, and anyone with an interest in the field."  (LINGUIST, 24 June 2015)“By combining the most crucial elements of current findings in theoretical and applied research, The Handbook of Hispanic Linguistics sheds new light on the increasing growth and importance of the Spanish language.”  (Morforetem, 24 January 2014)

• List of Figures ixList of Tables xiNotes on Contributors xiiiEditors’ Note xxi1 Geographical and Social Varieties of Spanish: An Overview 1John M. Lipski2 The Spanish-based Creoles 27J. Clancy Clements3 Spanish Among the Ibero-Romance Languages 47Christopher J. Pountain4 Spanish in Contact with Amerindian Languages 65Anna Mari´A Escobar5 The Phonemes of Spanish 89Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza6 Main Phonological Processes 111Fernando Marti´Nez-Gil7 Syllable Structure 133Sonia Colina8 Stress and Rhythm 153Jose´ Ignacio Hualde9 Intonation in Spanish 173Erin O’rourke10 Morphophonological Alternations 193David Eddington11 Derivation and Compounding 209Soledad Varela12 Morphological Structure of Verbal Forms 227Manuel Pe´ Rez Saldanya13 Forms of Address 247Bob De Jonge And Dorien Nieuwenhuijsen14 Structure of the Noun Phrase 263M. Carme Picallo15 Indefiniteness and Specificity 285Manuel Leonetti16 Quantification 307Javier Gutie´Rrez-Rexach17 Structure of the Verb Phrase 333Jaume Mateu18 Tense and Aspect 355Karen Zagona19 Mood: Indicative vs. Subjunctive 373Ignacio Bosque20 The Simple Sentence 395He´ Ctor Campos21 Clitics in Spanish 423Francisco Ordo´N˜ Ez22 Ser and Estar: The Individual/Stage-level Distinction and Aspectual Predication 453Jose´ Camacho23 Passives and se Constructions 477Amaya Mendikoetxea24 Coordination and Subordination 503Ricardo Etxepare25 Wh-movement: Interrogatives, Exclamatives, and Relatives 533Jerid Francom26 Binding: Deixis, Anaphors, Pronominals 557Luis Eguren27 Empty Categories and Ellipsis 579Josep Mari´A Brucart And Jonathan E. Macdonald28 Word Order and Information Structure 603Antxon Olarrea29 Speech Acts 629Victoria Escandell-Vidal30 Discourse Syntax 653Catherine E. Travis And Rena Torres Cacoullos31 Historical Morphosyntax and Grammaticalization 673Concepcio´ N Company Company32 First Language Acquisition of Spanish Sounds and Prosody 693Conxita Lleo´33 Spanish as a Second Language and Teaching Methodologies 711Cristina Sanz34 The L2 Acquisition of Spanish Phonetics and Phonology 729Miquel Simonet35 Theoretical Perspectives on the L2 Acquisition of Spanish 747Silvina Montrul36 Spanish as a Heritage Language 765Mari´A M. Carreira37 Acquisition of Spanish in Bilingual Contexts 783Carmen Silva-Corvala´ N38 Reading Words and Sentences in Spanish 803Manuel Carreiras, Jon Andoni Dun˜ Abeitia, And Nicola Molinaro39 Language Impairments 827Jose´ Manuel Igoa40 Lexical Access in Spanish as a First and Second Language 847Albert Costa, Iva Ivanova, Cristina Baus, And Nuria Sebastia´ N-Galle´ SIndex 865

José Ignacio Hualde is Professor in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese and in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His books include Basque Phonology (1991),Euskararen azentuerak [the accentual systems of Basque] (1997), and The Sounds of Spanish (2005).Antxon Olarrea is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona. He is author of Orígenes del lenguaje y selección natural (2005), coauthor of Introducción a la lingüística hispánica (2001, 2nd ed. 2010), and coeditor of Romance Linguistics 2009 (2010).Erin O'Rourke is Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Classics at the University of Alabama. She is co-editor of Romance Linguistics 2007 (2009) and has published articles and book chapters on intonation and sociophonetics in Spanish and Quechua, with an emphasis on the Andean region.

"The Handbook of Hispanic Linguistics is a remarkable compendium encompassing a wide range of scientific inquiry on the many facets of Spanish language structure and use. While presenting complex research, it remains clear and accessible, constituting a valuable resource for not only for linguistic scholars, but also for advanced Spanish learners, and anyone with an interest in the field."  (LINGUIST, 24 June 2015)“By combining the most crucial elements of current findings in theoretical and applied research, The Handbook of Hispanic Linguistics sheds new light on the increasing growth and importance of the Spanish language.”  (Morforetem, 24 January 2014)

• List of Figures ixList of Tables xiNotes on Contributors xiiiEditors’ Note xxi1 Geographical and Social Varieties of Spanish: An Overview 1John M. Lipski2 The Spanish-based Creoles 27J. Clancy Clements3 Spanish Among the Ibero-Romance Languages 47Christopher J. Pountain4 Spanish in Contact with Amerindian Languages 65Anna Mari´A Escobar5 The Phonemes of Spanish 89Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza6 Main Phonological Processes 111Fernando Marti´Nez-Gil7 Syllable Structure 133Sonia Colina8 Stress and Rhythm 153Jose´ Ignacio Hualde9 Intonation in Spanish 173Erin O’rourke10 Morphophonological Alternations 193David Eddington11 Derivation and Compounding 209Soledad Varela12 Morphological Structure of Verbal Forms 227Manuel Pe´ Rez Saldanya13 Forms of Address 247Bob De Jonge And Dorien Nieuwenhuijsen14 Structure of the Noun Phrase 263M. Carme Picallo15 Indefiniteness and Specificity 285Manuel Leonetti16 Quantification 307Javier Gutie´Rrez-Rexach17 Structure of the Verb Phrase 333Jaume Mateu18 Tense and Aspect 355Karen Zagona19 Mood: Indicative vs. Subjunctive 373Ignacio Bosque20 The Simple Sentence 395He´ Ctor Campos21 Clitics in Spanish 423Francisco Ordo´N˜ Ez22 Ser and Estar: The Individual/Stage-level Distinction and Aspectual Predication 453Jose´ Camacho23 Passives and se Constructions 477Amaya Mendikoetxea24 Coordination and Subordination 503Ricardo Etxepare25 Wh-movement: Interrogatives, Exclamatives, and Relatives 533Jerid Francom26 Binding: Deixis, Anaphors, Pronominals 557Luis Eguren27 Empty Categories and Ellipsis 579Josep Mari´A Brucart And Jonathan E. Macdonald28 Word Order and Information Structure 603Antxon Olarrea29 Speech Acts 629Victoria Escandell-Vidal30 Discourse Syntax 653Catherine E. Travis And Rena Torres Cacoullos31 Historical Morphosyntax and Grammaticalization 673Concepcio´ N Company Company32 First Language Acquisition of Spanish Sounds and Prosody 693Conxita Lleo´33 Spanish as a Second Language and Teaching Methodologies 711Cristina Sanz34 The L2 Acquisition of Spanish Phonetics and Phonology 729Miquel Simonet35 Theoretical Perspectives on the L2 Acquisition of Spanish 747Silvina Montrul36 Spanish as a Heritage Language 765Mari´A M. Carreira37 Acquisition of Spanish in Bilingual Contexts 783Carmen Silva-Corvala´ N38 Reading Words and Sentences in Spanish 803Manuel Carreiras, Jon Andoni Dun˜ Abeitia, And Nicola Molinaro39 Language Impairments 827Jose´ Manuel Igoa40 Lexical Access in Spanish as a First and Second Language 847Albert Costa, Iva Ivanova, Cristina Baus, And Nuria Sebastia´ N-Galle´ SIndex 865

José Ignacio Hualde is Professor in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese and in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His books include Basque Phonology (1991),Euskararen azentuerak [the accentual systems of Basque] (1997), and The Sounds of Spanish (2005).Antxon Olarrea is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona. He is author of Orígenes del lenguaje y selección natural (2005), coauthor of Introducción a la lingüística hispánica (2001, 2nd ed. 2010), and coeditor of Romance Linguistics 2009 (2010).Erin O'Rourke is Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Classics at the University of Alabama. She is co-editor of Romance Linguistics 2007 (2009) and has published articles and book chapters on intonation and sociophonetics in Spanish and Quechua, with an emphasis on the Andean region.

"The Handbook of Hispanic Linguistics is a remarkable compendium encompassing a wide range of scientific inquiry on the many facets of Spanish language structure and use. While presenting complex research, it remains clear and accessible, constituting a valuable resource for not only for linguistic scholars, but also for advanced Spanish learners, and anyone with an interest in the field."  (LINGUIST, 24 June 2015)“By combining the most crucial elements of current findings in theoretical and applied research, The Handbook of Hispanic Linguistics sheds new light on the increasing growth and importance of the Spanish language.”  (Morforetem, 24 January 2014)

• List of Figures ixList of Tables xiNotes on Contributors xiiiEditors’ Note xxi1 Geographical and Social Varieties of Spanish: An Overview 1John M. Lipski2 The Spanish-based Creoles 27J. Clancy Clements3 Spanish Among the Ibero-Romance Languages 47Christopher J. Pountain4 Spanish in Contact with Amerindian Languages 65Anna Mari´A Escobar5 The Phonemes of Spanish 89Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza6 Main Phonological Processes 111Fernando Marti´Nez-Gil7 Syllable Structure 133Sonia Colina8 Stress and Rhythm 153Jose´ Ignacio Hualde9 Intonation in Spanish 173Erin O’rourke10 Morphophonological Alternations 193David Eddington11 Derivation and Compounding 209Soledad Varela12 Morphological Structure of Verbal Forms 227Manuel Pe´ Rez Saldanya13 Forms of Address 247Bob De Jonge And Dorien Nieuwenhuijsen14 Structure of the Noun Phrase 263M. Carme Picallo15 Indefiniteness and Specificity 285Manuel Leonetti16 Quantification 307Javier Gutie´Rrez-Rexach17 Structure of the Verb Phrase 333Jaume Mateu18 Tense and Aspect 355Karen Zagona19 Mood: Indicative vs. Subjunctive 373Ignacio Bosque20 The Simple Sentence 395He´ Ctor Campos21 Clitics in Spanish 423Francisco Ordo´N˜ Ez22 Ser and Estar: The Individual/Stage-level Distinction and Aspectual Predication 453Jose´ Camacho23 Passives and se Constructions 477Amaya Mendikoetxea24 Coordination and Subordination 503Ricardo Etxepare25 Wh-movement: Interrogatives, Exclamatives, and Relatives 533Jerid Francom26 Binding: Deixis, Anaphors, Pronominals 557Luis Eguren27 Empty Categories and Ellipsis 579Josep Mari´A Brucart And Jonathan E. Macdonald28 Word Order and Information Structure 603Antxon Olarrea29 Speech Acts 629Victoria Escandell-Vidal30 Discourse Syntax 653Catherine E. Travis And Rena Torres Cacoullos31 Historical Morphosyntax and Grammaticalization 673Concepcio´ N Company Company32 First Language Acquisition of Spanish Sounds and Prosody 693Conxita Lleo´33 Spanish as a Second Language and Teaching Methodologies 711Cristina Sanz34 The L2 Acquisition of Spanish Phonetics and Phonology 729Miquel Simonet35 Theoretical Perspectives on the L2 Acquisition of Spanish 747Silvina Montrul36 Spanish as a Heritage Language 765Mari´A M. Carreira37 Acquisition of Spanish in Bilingual Contexts 783Carmen Silva-Corvala´ N38 Reading Words and Sentences in Spanish 803Manuel Carreiras, Jon Andoni Dun˜ Abeitia, And Nicola Molinaro39 Language Impairments 827Jose´ Manuel Igoa40 Lexical Access in Spanish as a First and Second Language 847Albert Costa, Iva Ivanova, Cristina Baus, And Nuria Sebastia´ N-Galle´ SIndex 865