Dialects from Tropical Islands (Routledge Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics)

Dialects from Tropical Islands: Caribbean Spanish in the United States provides a comprehensive account of current research on Caribbean Spanish in the United States from different theoretical perspectives and linguistic areas.

This edited volume highlights current scholarship and linguistic analyses in four major areas relative to Caribbean Spanish in the United States: phonological and phonetic variation, morphosyntactic approaches, sociolinguistic perspectives, and heritage-language acquisition.

This volume will be of interest to linguists and philologists who specialize in Spanish, Caribbean Spanish, Spanish in the United States, or in Romance languages in general.

Wilfredo Valentín-Márquez is an assistant professor of Spanish at Millersville University.

Melvin González-Rivera is an associate professor of Spanish at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez.