CONTENTS OF VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1 - SPRING 2008


From the Editor’s Desk
      Timothy L. Face


RESEARCH ARTICLES

El abundante agua fría: Hermaphroditic Spanish Nouns
      David Eddington & José Ignacio Hualde

Vítimas e perpetradores: Discurso reportado e identidade em
narrativas de discriminação racial
      Mércia S. Flannery

Integración conceptual (blending) en el proceso de gramaticalización
de construcciones nominales cuantificativas en español
      Enrique Huelva Unternbäumen

A Tale of Two Borders: 19th Century Language Contact in Southern
California and Northern Uruguay
      María Irene Moyna & Magdalena Coll


BOOK REVIEWS

Prieto, Mascaró & Solé (eds.): Segmental and Prosodic Issues in
Romance Phonology
      Joaquín Romero


STATE OF THE DISCIPLINE
Topic: Corpus Linguistics

New Directions in Spanish and Portuguese Corpus Linguistics
      Mark Davies


VIEWPOINTS
Topic: The Place of Dialectology in Modern Linguistics

Some Thoughts on Dialectology and Spanish Historical Linguistics
      Steven N. Dworkin

Viewpoint from Sociolinguistics and Contact Linguistics: On the
Role of Dialectology in Modern Linguistics
      Anna María Escobar

Homeless in Post-Modern Linguistics? (Re/Dis)placing Hispanic
Dialectology
      John M. Lipski

Affirming Differences, Valuing Variation and Dismissing Dialects
in Modern Linguistics
      Ricardo Otheguy


DISSERTATION NOTICES

A macro- and microsociolinguistic study of language attitudes and
language contact: Mercosur and the teaching of Spanish in Brazil
      Talia Bugel

The acquisition of probabilistic patterns in Spanish phonology by
adult second language learners: The case of diphthongization
      Matthew T. Carlson

The role of lexical frequency and phonetic context in the weakening
of syllable-final lexical /s/ in the Spanish of Barranquilla, Colombia
      Richard J. File-Muriel

Register and style variation in speakers of Spanish as a heritage and as
a second language
      Ana Sánchez-Muñoz
Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics