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



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