The Handbook of Hispanic Linguistics -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Editors' Note -- 1 Geographical and Social Varieties of Spanish: An Overview -- 2 The Spanish-based Creoles -- 3 Spanish Among the Ibero-Romance Languages -- 4 Spanish in Contact with Amerindian Languages -- 5 The Phonemes of Spanish -- 6 Main Phonological Processes -- 7 Syllable Structure -- 8 Stress and Rhythm -- 9 Intonation in Spanish -- 10 Morphophonological Alternations -- 11 Derivation and Compounding -- 12 Morphological Structure of Verbal Forms -- 13 Forms of Address -- 14 Structure of the Noun Phrase -- 15 Indefiniteness and Specificity -- 16 Quantification -- 17 Structure of the Verb Phrase -- 18 Tense and Aspect -- 19 Mood: Indicative vs. Subjunctive -- 20 The Simple Sentence -- 21 Clitics in Spanish -- 22 Ser and Estar: The Individual/Stage-level Distinction and Aspectual Predication -- 23 Passives and se Constructions -- 24 Coordination and Subordination -- 25 Wh-movement: Interrogatives, Exclamatives, and Relatives -- 26 Binding: Deixis, Anaphors, Pronominals -- 27 Empty Categories and Ellipsis -- 28 Word Order and Information Structure -- 29 Speech Acts -- 30 Discourse Syntax -- 31 Historical Morphosyntax and Grammaticalization -- 32 First Language Acquisition of Spanish Sounds and Prosody -- 33 Spanish as a Second Language and Teaching Methodologies -- 34 The L2 Acquisition of Spanish Phonetics and Phonology -- 35 Theoretical Perspectives on the L2 Acquisition of Spanish -- 36 Spanish as a Heritage Language -- 37 Acquisition of Spanish in Bilingual Contexts -- 38 Reading Words and Sentences in Spanish -- 39 Language Impairments -- 40 Lexical Access in Spanish as a First and Second Language -- Index.