Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Language acquisition
5. The development of intonation in L2 Spanish 11
6. Insights into the cognition of mood selection in L2 learners of Spanish 33
7. The licensing of wh-in-situ questions 53
8. What derivational suffixes should we teach in Spanish as a Second Language courses? 75
9. Part II. Theoretical and descriptive approaches
10. The seem-class verb paradigm and restructuring in Romance 97
11. The Progressive-to-Imperfective shift 119
12. The aspectual structure of the adjective 137
13. Mood in future-framed adverbials 161
14. Syntactic and prosodic marking of subject focus in American English and Peninsular Spanish 183
15. Part III. Language contact and variation
16. Demystifying Salvadoran [s θ ] 207
17. Afro-Peruvian Spanish declarative intonation 229
18. Subject-predicate code-switching 249
19. The differing behavior of loanwords in the Spanish of technology and of fashion and beauty 265
20. Futurity and probability in Spanish as a heritage language 285
21. Examining the (mini-) variable swarm in the Spanish of the Southeast 303
22. Casting light on the Spanish creole debate 327
23. Index 343