Ana Roca & John M. Lipski 
Spanish in the United States [PDF ebook] 
Linguistic Contact and Diversity

Frontmatter — Acknowledgements — Contents — Introduction — Linguistic heterogeneity, civil strife and per capita gross national product in inter-polity perspective — A reconsideration of the notion of loan translation in the analysis of U.S. Spanish — The dialectics of Spanish language loyalty and maintenance on the U.S.-Mexico border: A two-generation study — Spanish clitics in a contact situation — Language choice in Hispanic-background junior high school students in Miami: A 1988 update — Literacy stories: Features of unplanned oral discourse — Language maintenance institutions of the Isleño dialect of Spanish — Convergent conceptualizations as predictors of degree of contact in U.S. Spanish — Creoloid phenomena in the Spanish of transitional bilinguals — Diversification and Pan-Latinity: Projections for the teaching of Spanish to bilinguals — Oral proficiency testing and the bilingual speaker — Index