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Bridging Boundaries: Interdisciplinary perspectives on Hispanic Linguistics

Edited by Gregory L. Thompson and Scott M. Alvord

Bridging Boundaries: Interdisciplinary perspectives on Hispanic Linguistics is a new collection of research expanding the field of Hispanic linguistics. Edited by Gregory L. Thompson and Scott M. Alvord, this volume brings together established and rising scholars to span the full range of Spanish… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 46] 2026. vi, 434 pp. + index

La Percepción de las Variedades Cultas del Español en el S. XXI

Edited by Cristina Illamola and Mar Forment Fernández

Special issue of Spanish in Context 22:1 (2025) vi, 310 pp.

Culturas Juveniles, Contracultura y Procesos de Difusión en el Español Coloquial

Edited by Ana Llopis Cardona

Special issue of Spanish in Context 21:1 (2024) v, 218 pp.

The Fine-grained Structure of the Lexical Area: Gender, appreciatives and nominal suffixes in Spanish

Antonio Fábregas

This is the first book that presents a complete description and analysis of the Spanish suffixes that alter the grammatical behaviour of nouns and adjectives without changing their grammatical category, supporting a fine-grained decomposition of the syntactic area where these word classes are… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 39] 2024. xiii, 394 pp.

Recent Developments in Hispanic Linguistics: Studies in structure, variation, and bilingualism

Edited by Michael Gradoville and Sean McKinnon

This book brings together eleven peer-reviewed chapters of cutting-edge research produced by both established and rising scholars in the field. Given that this volume is inspired by papers from the 25th iteration of the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, the editors track the development of the field… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 41] 2024. xvi, 296 pp.

Copulas in Spanish and Beyond

Edited by Silvia Gumiel-Molina and Isabel Pérez-Jiménez

Special issue of Spanish in Context 20:2 (2023) v, 160 pp.

Innovative Approaches to Research in Hispanic Linguistics: Regional, diachronic, and learner profile variation

Edited by Sara Fernández Cuenca, Tiffany Judy and Lauren Miller

This volume presents research from across the subdisciplines of Hispanic Linguistics in an attempt to showcase how new research methods, together with a renewed focus on language variation, have advanced our field. This volume is divided into three sections of original research, with the first… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 38] 2023. x, 250 pp.

Sound, Syntax and Contact in the Languages of Asturias

Edited by Guillermo Lorenzo

This is the first generative-oriented volume ever published about Asturian and Asturian Galician, two Romance languages which, along with their intrinsic interest, are crucial to understand the parametric distance between Spanish and Galician/Portuguese. Its chapters offer new insights about old… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 36] 2022. ix, 218 pp.

Advancedness in Second Language Spanish: Definitions, challenges, and possibilities

Edited by Mandy R. Menke and Paul A. Malovrh

This book analyzes the construct of advanced proficiency in second language learning by bringing together empirical research from numerous linguistic domains and methodological traditions. Focusing on the dynamic nature of language use, the volume explores diverse manifestations of high-level… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 31] 2021. x, 512 pp.

Aspects of Latin American Spanish Dialectology: In honor of Terrell A. Morgan

Edited by Manuel Díaz-Campos and Sandro Sessarego

This book focuses on contemporary sociolinguistic approaches to Spanish dialectology. Each of the authors draws on key issues of contemporary sociolinguistics, combining theoretical approaches with empirical data collection. Overall, these chapters address topics concerning language variation and… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 32] 2021. vi, 292 pp.

Humour in Spanish Context

Edited by Larissa Timofeeva-Timofeev

Special issue of Spanish in Context 18:1 (2021) v, 159 pp.

Hispanic Linguistics: Current issues and new directions

Edited by Alfonso Morales-Front, Michael J. Ferreira, Ronald P. Leow and Cristina Sanz

This volume addresses a wide range of phenomena including intonation, restructuring, clitic climbing, aspectual structure, subject focus marking, code-switching, lenition, loanwords, and heritage learning that are central in Hispanic linguistics today. The authors approach these issues from a… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 26] 2020. vi, 344 pp.

Morphologically Derived Adjectives in Spanish

Antonio Fábregas

This is the first book that presents a complete empirical description and theoretical analysis of all major classes of derived adjectives in Spanish, both deverbal and denominal. The reader will find here both a detailed empirical description of the syntactic, morphological and semantic properties… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 30] 2020. xi, 377 pp.

Sociolinguistic patterns and processes of convergence and divergence in Spanish

Edited by Isabel Molina Martos, Florentino Paredes García and Ana M. Cestero Mancera

Special issue of Spanish in Context 17:2 (2020) vi, 219 pp.

Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain

Edited by Rajiv Rao

Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain brings together scholars working on a wide range of aspects of the Spanish sound system and how their coexistence with another language in speech communities across the Hispanophone world influences their… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 28] 2020. x, 452 pp.

Variation and Evolution: Aspects of language contact and contrast across the Spanish-speaking world

Edited by Sandro Sessarego, Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana and Adrián Rodríguez-Riccelli

This book is a collection of original studies analyzing how different internal and external factors affect Spanish language variation and evolution across a number of (socio)linguistic scenarios. Its primary goal is to expand our understanding of how native and non-native varieties of Spanish… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 29] 2020. viii, 277 pp.

Prosodic Issues in Language Contact Situations

Edited by Yolanda Congosto Martín and Laura Morgenthaler

Special issue of Spanish in Context 16:3 (2019) vi, 250 pp.

Estrategias atenuantes en géneros discursivos del español: Interfaz semántico-pragmática

Edited by Marta Albelda Marco

Special issue of Spanish in Context 15:2 (2018) v, 192 pp.

Language Variation and Contact-Induced Change: Spanish across space and time

Edited by Jeremy King and Sandro Sessarego

This collection of original contributions dealing with Hispanic contact linguistics covers an array of Spanish dialects distributed across North, South, and Central America, the Caribbean, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Bosporus. It deals with both native and non-native varieties of the language,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 340] 2018. vi, 336 pp.

Forms of Address in the Spanish of the Americas

Edited by María Irene Moyna and Susana Rivera-Mills

In the growing field of address research, Spanish emerges as one of the most complex Indo European languages. Firstly, it presents second person variation in its nominal, pronominal, and verbal systems. Moreover, several Spanish varieties have more than two address variants, which compete and mix… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 10] 2016. x, 352 pp.

The Acquisition of Spanish in Understudied Language Pairings

Edited by Tiffany Judy and Silvia Perpiñán

By examining the acquisition of Spanish in combination with languages other than English (Arabic, Basque, Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, Farsi, French, German, Nahuatl, Quechua, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish), this volume advances novel data pertinent to the field’s understanding of acquisition of Spanish… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 3] 2015. vi, 362 pp.

Bibliografía cronológica de la lingüística, la gramática y la lexicografía del español (BICRES V): Desde el año 1861 hasta el año 1899

Miguel Ángel Esparza Torres y Hans-Josef Niederehe

Since the publication of the still very valuable Biblioteca histórica de la filología by Cipriano Muñoz y Manzano, conde de la Viñaza (Madrid, 1893), our knowledge of the history of the study of the Spanish language has grown considerably, and most manuscript and secondary sources had never been… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 124] 2015. v, 957 pp.

Hearer-Orientation in Spoken Genres

Edited by Bert Cornillie and Barbara De Cock

Special issue of Spanish in Context 12:1 (2015) vi, 176 pp.

Hispanic Linguistics at the Crossroads: Theoretical linguistics, language acquisition and language contact. Proceedings of the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2013

Edited by Rachel Klassen, Juana M. Liceras and Elena Valenzuela

This collection of articles, contributed by both experienced and novice researchers, addresses core issues in three different domains of Hispanic Linguistics: theoretical linguistics, language acquisition and language contact. Together these papers provide an overview of how the analysis of Spanish… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 4] 2015. xviii, 339 pp.

New Perspectives on the Study of Ser and Estar

Edited by Isabel Pérez-Jiménez, Manuel Leonetti and Silvia Gumiel-Molina

This is the first book entirely and exclusively devoted to the grammar of the two copular verbs ser and estar, certainly one of the most intriguing features of Spanish grammar. Although the topic has long attracted the interest of scholars, it had never given rise to a collection of papers that… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 5] 2015. vi, 326 pp.

The Syntax of Multiple-que Sentences in Spanish: Along the left periphery

Julio Villa-García

Complementizers offer a window into the architecture of the left-periphery and further our understanding of the demarcation of the boundaries between the C(omplementizer) and T(ense) domains. Using the articulated left-periphery as a laboratory and Spanish constructions featuring more than one… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 2] 2015. xv, 274 pp.

Auxiliary Selection in Spanish: Gradience, gradualness, and conservation

Malte Rosemeyer

Although usage-based linguistics emphasises the need for studies of language change to take frequency effects into account, there is a lack of research that tries to systematically model frequency effects and their relation to diffusion processes in language change. This monograph offers a… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 155] 2014. xix, 313 pp.

Bibliografía cronológica de la lingüística, la gramática y la lexicografía del español (BICRES IV): Desde el año 1801 hasta el año 1860

Miguel Ángel Esparza Torres y Hans-Josef Niederehe

Since the publication of the still very valuable Biblioteca histórica de la filología by Cipriano Muñoz y Manzano, conde de la Viñaza (Madrid, 1893), our knowledge of the history of the study of the Spanish language has grown considerably. It has been the purpose of BICRES I (from the early… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 118] 2012. v, 696 pp.

Compound Words in Spanish: Theory and history

María Irene Moyna

This is the first book devoted entirely to the history of compound words in Spanish. Based on data obtained from Spanish dictionaries and databases of the past thousand years, it documents the evolution of the major compounding patterns of the language. It analyzes the structural, semantic, and… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 316] 2011. xxv, 451 pp.

Aspect and the Categorization of States: The case of ser and estar in Spanish

David Brian Roby

In this work, the Spanish copulae ser and estar are argued to be aspectual morphemes. Their binary opposition reflects the universal aspectual values [±Perfective], which are the same ones overtly expressed by the preterite and imperfect past tense forms in Spanish. It can therefore be shown that… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 114] 2009. xiii, 191 pp.

Bibliografía cronológica de la lingüística, la gramática y la lexicografía del español (BICRES III): Desde el año 1701 hasta el año 1800

Hans-Josef Niederehe

Since the publication of the still very valuable Biblioteca histórica de la filología by Cipriano Muñoz y Manzano, conde de la Viñaza (Madrid, 1893), our knowledge of the history of the study of the Spanish language has grown considerably. It has been the purpose of BICRES I (from the early… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 108] 2005. vi, 474 pp.

Bibliografía cronológica de la lingüística, la gramática y la lexicografía del español (BICRES II): Desde el año 1601 hasta el año 1700

Hans-Josef Niederehe

Since the publication of the still very valuable Biblioteca histórica de la filología by Cipriano Muñoz y Manzano, conde de la Viñaza, (Madrid, 1893), our knowledge of the history of the study of the Spanish language has grown considerably. It has been the purpose of BICRES I (from the beginnings… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 91] 1999. vi, 472 pp.

Bibliografía cronológica de la lingüística, la gramática y la lexicografía del español (BICRES): Desde los principios hasta el año 1600

Hans-Josef Niederehe

Since the publication of the still very valuable Biblioteca histórica de la filología castellana by Cipriano Muñoz y Manzano, conde de la Viñaza, (Madrid, 1893), our knowledge of the history of the study of the Spanish language has grown considerably. It is the purpose of the present bibliography… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 76] 1994. vi, 457 pp.