The Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics [Hardcover]

• Offers the first authoritative collection exploring research strands in the emerging and fast-moving field of Spanish sociolinguistics
• Highlights the contributions that Spanish Sociolinguistics has offered to general linguistic theory
• Brings together a team of the top researchers in the field to present the very latest perspectives and discussions of key issues
• Covers a wealth of topics including: variationist approaches, Spanish and its importance in the U.S., language planning, and other topics focused on the social aspects of Spanish
• Includes several varieties of Spanish, reflecting the rich diversity of dialects spoken in the Americas and Spain

List of Tables.

Notes on Contributors.

Introduction (Manuel Díaz-Campos).

I Phonological Variation.

1 Laboratory Approaches to Sound Variation and Change (Laura Colantoni).

2 Variationist Approaches: External Factors Conditioning Variation in Spanish Phonology (Antonio Medina-Rivera).

3 Internal Factors Conditioning Variation in Spanish Phonology (Francisco Moreno-Fernández).

4 Socio-phonological Variation in Latin American Spanish (John M. Lipski).

5 Sociophonological Variation and Change in Spain (José Antonio Samper Padilla).

II Morphosyntactic Variation.

6 Variationist Approaches to Spanish Morphosyntax: Internal and External Factors (Scott A. Schwenter).

7 Variation and Grammaticalization (Rena Torres Cacoullos).

8 Morplã7