Cover; Title Page; cip page; Contents; List of Maps; List of Tables; Preface and Acknowledgments; One Introduction; Part I The Study of New Mexican Spanish; Two New Mexican Spanish; Three The New Mexico-Colorado Spanish Survey; Four Historical Overview of the Spanish Language and Culture in New Mexico; Part II The Formation of Traditional New Mexican Spanish; Five Retentions; Six New Spanish in a New World; Seven Nahuatlisms; Part III The Development of Traditional New Mexican Spanish; Eight El Nuevo México; Nine Uneasy Alliances; Ten Anglicisms; Eleven Mexicanisms
Part IV The Present and Future of New Mexico SpanishTwelve The Permanent Certainty; Thirteen The Long Goodbye; Fourteen Expanding Horizons; Fifteen Coming Full Circle; Conclusions; Appendix The NMCOSS Consultants; References; Index of Spanish Words; Index of Variables Cited; Subject Index; Back Cover
Summary
This linguistic exploration delves into the language as it is spoken by the Hispanic population of New Mexico and southern Colorado
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-366) and indexes
