Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Phonetics/phonology; 1 Vowel raising and identity in the highlands of Puerto Rico; 2 Hiatus resolution in Puerto Rican Spanish and language typology; 3 Phonetics and phonology of /s̪/ in the Spanish of Puerto Rico: aspiration, elision with compensatory lengthening, and glottalization; Syntax; 4 The nature and position of subjects in Puerto Rican Spanish wh-questions: empirical evidence and theoretical implications; 5 On Puerto Rican Spanish subjects; Language variation
6 A variationist account of Puerto Rican subject personal pronoun expression7 Interaction among cognitive constraints: the case of the pluralization of presentational haber in Puerto Rican Spanish; Pragmatics; 8 Mitigation and indirectness in Puerto Rican, Dominican, and Mexican Spanish in an institutional discourse setting; 9 Respect and politeness in marketing and advertising documents in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico; Applied linguistics; 10 Text messaging and bilingual discursive practices of college students in Puerto Rico; Appendix A: Mobile phone use survey
11 Language education policy issues in Puerto Rico12 Puerto Ricans on the move in the Anglophone Caribbean: the case of Spanish in St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands; Index