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.