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 Spanish -- Twelve 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.