Hispanic linguistics at the crossroads

This collection of articles, contributed by both experienced and novice researchers, addresses core issues in three different domains of Hispanic linguistics: theoretical linguistics, language acquisition and language contact. Together these papers provide an overview of how the analysis of Spanish contributes to current formal and experimental linguistics, while on an individual level offering fine-grained analyses and innovative proposals covering a wide range of areas such as semantics and pragmatics, syntax, morphology, phonology, prosody, dialectal variation, first, second and bilingual language acquisition, as well as sociolinguistics. The selection of chapters included in this volume were presented at the 17th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium hosted by the Language Acquisition Research Laboratory of the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Ottawa in October 2013 in Ottawa, Canada. The volume will be a resource for graduate students, academic and researchers in theoretical, experimental and descriptive linguistics in general and Hispanic linguistics in particular.