ABSTRACT
Current Research in Puerto Rican Linguistics is an edited collection of original contributions which explores the idiosyncratic grammatical properties of Puerto Rican Spanish.
The book focuses on the structural aspects of linguistics, analysed with a variety of frameworks and methodological approaches, in order to presents the latest advances in the field of Puerto Rican and Caribbean linguistics.
Current Research in Puerto Rican Linguistics brings together articles from researchers proposing new, challenging, and ground-breaking analyses on the nature of Spanish in Puerto Rico and Puerto Rican Spanish in the United States.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |59 pages
Phonetics/phonology
chapter 3|21 pages
Phonetics and phonology of /s̪/ in the Spanish of Puerto Rico
Aspiration, elision with compensatory lengthening, and glottalization
part |43 pages
Syntax
chapter 4|23 pages
The nature and position of subjects in Puerto Rican Spanish wh-questions
Empirical evidence and theoretical implications
part |45 pages
Language variation
chapter 7|23 pages
Interaction among cognitive constraints
The case of the pluralization of presentational haber in Puerto Rican Spanish
part |44 pages
Pragmatics
part |61 pages
Applied linguistics
chapter 12|16 pages
Puerto Ricans on the move in the Anglophone Caribbean
The case of Spanish in St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands
