Book description
Reflecting the growth and increasing global importance of the Spanish
language,
The Handbook of Hispanic Linguistics
brings together a team of renowned Spanish linguistics scholars to
explore both applied and theoretical work in this field.
- Features 41 newly-written essays contributed by leading language
scholars that shed new light on the growth and significance of the
Spanish language
- Combines current applied and theoretical research results in the
field of Spanish linguistics
- Explores all facets relating to the origins, evolution, and
geographical variations of the Spanish language
- Examines topics including second language learning, Spanish in the
classroom, immigration, heritage languages, and bilingualism
José Ignacio Hualde is Professor in the Department of Spanish,
Italian, and Portuguese and in the Department of Linguistics at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His books
include Basque Phonology (1991),Euskararen azentuerak [the
accentual systems of Basque] (1997), and The Sounds of Spanish (2005).
Antxon Olarrea is Associate Professor in the Department of
Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona. He is author
of Orígenes del lenguaje y selección natural (2005), coauthor
of Introducción a la lingüística hispánica (2001, 2nd ed.
2010), and coeditor of Romance Linguistics 2009 (2010).
Erin O'Rourke is Assistant Professor in the Department of
Modern Languages and Classics at the University of Alabama. She is
co-editor of Romance Linguistics 2007 (2009) and has published
articles and book chapters on intonation and sociophonetics in Spanish
and Quechua, with an emphasis on the Andean region.
