{"id":2459,"date":"2013-02-21T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T08:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elanguage.net\/blogs\/booknotices\/?p=2459"},"modified":"2013-02-15T16:23:30","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T14:23:30","slug":"the-handbook-of-hispanic-linguistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/?p=2459","title":{"rendered":"The handbook of hispanic linguistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em;\"><strong>The handbook of hispanic linguistics<\/strong>. Ed. by <strong>Jos\u00e9 Ignacio Hualde<\/strong>, <strong>Antxon Olarrea<\/strong>,<strong> <\/strong>and <strong>Erin O\u2019Rourke<\/strong>. (Blackwell handbooks in linguistics.) Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. Pp. 898. ISBN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/handbook-of-hispanic-linguistics\/oclc\/753351024&amp;referer=brief_results\">9781405198820<\/a>. $199.95 (Hb).<\/div>\n<p align=\"right\">Reviewed by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/linguistlist.org\/people\/personal\/get-personal-page2.cfm?PersonID=194296\">Natalie Operstein<\/a><\/strong>, <em>California State University Fullerton<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As stated in the editors\u2019 note, this handbook aims \u2018to present the state of the art of research in all aspects of the Spanish language\u2019 (xxi). It consists of forty chapters, partially grouped in thematically-related clusters.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish sound structure is covered in \u2018The phonemes of Spanish\u2019 (<strong>Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza<\/strong>), \u2018Main phonological processes\u2019 (<strong>Fernando Mart\u00ednez-Gil<\/strong>), \u2018Syllable structure\u2019 (<strong>Sonia Colina<\/strong>), \u2018Stress and rhythm\u2019 (<strong>Jos\u00e9 Ignacio Hualde<\/strong>), and \u2018Intonation in Spanish\u2019 (<strong>Erin O\u2019Rourke<\/strong>). Spanish word structure is discussed in \u2018Derivation and compounding\u2019 (<strong>Soledad Varela<\/strong>) and \u2018Morphological structure of verbal forms\u2019 (<strong>Manuel P\u00e9rez Saldanya<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>Syntactic topics are addressed in \u2018Structure of the noun phrase\u2019 (<strong>M. Carme Picallo<\/strong>), \u2018The simple sentence\u2019 (<strong>H\u00e9ctor Campos<\/strong>), \u2018Coordination and subordination\u2019 (<strong>Ricardo Etxepare<\/strong>), \u2018Wh-movement: Interrogatives, exclamatives, and relatives\u2019 (<strong>Jerid Francom<\/strong>), \u2018Binding: Deixis, anaphors, pronominals\u2019 (<strong>Luis Eguren<\/strong>), \u2018Empty categories and ellipsis\u2019 (<strong>Josep Mar\u00eda Brucart <\/strong>and <strong>Jonathan E. Macdonald<\/strong>), and \u2018Word order and information structure\u2019 (<strong>Antxon Olarrea<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>Semantics and pragmatics are emphasized in\u00a0 \u2018Quantification\u2019 (<strong>Javier Guti\u00e9rrez-Rexach<\/strong>) and \u2018Speech acts\u2019 (<strong>Victoria Escandell-Vidal<\/strong>), while the following chapters cover interfaces among the various linguistic modules: \u2018Morphophonological alternations\u2019 (<strong>David Eddington<\/strong>), \u2018Structure of the verb phrase\u2019 (<strong>Jaume Mateu<\/strong>), \u2018Indefiniteness and specificity\u2019 (<strong>Manuel Leonetti<\/strong>), \u2018Tense and aspect\u2019 (<strong>Karen Zagona<\/strong>), \u2018Mood: Indicative vs. subjunctive\u2019 (<strong>Ignacio Bosque<\/strong>), and \u2018Discourse syntax\u2019 (<strong>Catherine E. Travis <\/strong>and <strong>Rena Torres Cacoullos<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>Another group of chapters discusses topics related to language acquisition: \u2018First language acquisition of Spanish sounds and prosody\u2019 (<strong>Conxita Lle\u00f3<\/strong>), \u2018The L2 acquisition of Spanish phonetics and phonology\u2019 (<strong>Miquel Simonet<\/strong>), \u2018Theoretical perspectives on the L2 acquisition of Spanish\u2019 (<strong>Silvina Montrul<\/strong>), \u2018Acquisition of Spanish in bilingual contexts\u2019 (<strong>Carmen Silva-Corval\u00e1n<\/strong>), \u2018Spanish as a heritage language\u2019 (<strong>Mar\u00eda M. Carreira<\/strong>), \u2018Spanish as a second language and teaching methodologies\u2019 (<strong>Cristina Sanz<\/strong>), \u2018Reading words and sentences in Spanish\u2019 (<strong>Manuel Carreiras<\/strong>, <strong>Jon Andoni Du\u00f1abeitia<\/strong>, and <strong>Nicola Molinaro<\/strong>), \u2018Lexical access in Spanish as a first and second language\u2019 (<strong>Albert Costa<\/strong>, <strong>Iva Ivanova<\/strong>, <strong>Cristina Baus<\/strong>, and <strong>Nuria Sebasti\u00e1n-Gall\u00e9s<\/strong>), and \u2018Language impairments\u2019 (<strong>Jos\u00e9 Manuel Igoa<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>Several chapters are devoted to topics of particular theoretical interest to Spanish linguistics: \u2018<em>Ser<\/em> and <em>Estar<\/em>: The individual\/stage-level distinction and aspectual predication\u2019 (<strong>Jos\u00e9 Camacho<\/strong>), \u2018Clitics in Spanish\u2019 (<strong>Francisco Ord\u00f3\u00f1ez<\/strong>), \u2018Passives and <em>se <\/em>constructions\u2019 (<strong>Amaya Mendikoetxea<\/strong>), and \u2018Forms of address\u2019 (<strong>Bob de Jonge <\/strong>and <strong>Dorien Nieuwenhuijsen<\/strong>). Diachronic linguistics is the primary focus of \u2018Spanish among the Ibero-Romance languages\u2019 (<strong>Christopher J. Pountain<\/strong>) and \u2018Historical morphosyntax and grammaticalization\u2019 (<strong>Concepci\u00f3n Company Company<\/strong>). \u2018Spanish in contact with Amerindian languages\u2019 (<strong>Anna Mar\u00eda Escobar<\/strong>) and \u2018The Spanish-based creoles\u2019 (<strong>J. Clancy Clements<\/strong>) focus on language-contact phenomena, and \u2018Geographical and social varieties of Spanish: An overview\u2019 (<strong>John M. Lipski<\/strong>), on dialectal variation.<\/p>\n<p>Most chapters in this book combine descriptive outlines with theoretical analyses, although the presentation varies with the author, some preferring the bottom-up approach, from Spanish-language data to general linguistic theory, and others opting to exemplify theoretical models with Spanish-language data. The treatment in each chapter is selective, focusing on issues that are either central to, or particularly relevant for current theoretical concerns in, the relevant field. The book is geared toward the currently most researched topics in Spanish linguistics, and it will be of interest to students and researchers seeking critical state-of-the-art overviews of some of the most important current issues in the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The handbook of hispanic linguistics. Ed. by Jos\u00e9 Ignacio Hualde, Antxon Olarrea, and Erin O\u2019Rourke. (Blackwell handbooks in linguistics.) Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. Pp. 898. ISBN 9781405198820. $199.95 (Hb). Reviewed by Natalie Operstein, California State University Fullerton As stated in the editors\u2019 note, this handbook aims \u2018to present the state of the art of research in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2460,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions\/2460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}