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**************************************************************** December issue of the Southwest Journal of Linguistics Volume 20, number 2 For the abstracts of these articles, as well as those of recent volumes of SWJL, please see: http://www.tamu-commerce.edu/swjl/ Jill Brody: >From conquistadors to Zapatistas: Language contact, change, and judgments of authenticity Brigitte L.M. Bauer: Variability in word order: Adjectives and comparatives in Latin, Romance, and Germanic Lida Dutkova-Cope: The language of Czech Moravians in Texas: "Do you know what parknu karu u hauza means?" David Eddington: Surface analogy and spelling rules in English vowel alternations Elly van Gelderen: The Force of ForceP in English Joke Mondada: Characters in the narrative 'Kompa Nanzi i Cha Tiger': A Hallidayan perspective Misumi Sadler: Iconically motivated use of the Japanese discourse markers sorede, nde and de in conversation Allison D. Smith: Review of Language alive in the classroom, Ed. by Rebecca S. Wheeler (1999, Praeger) Thematic Supplement: Studies in language contact: Spanish in the U.S. and the Caribbean Luis A. Ortiz Lopez: El sistema verbal del Espanyol hatiano en Cuba: Implicaciones para las lenguas en contacto en el Caribe Arnulfo G. Ramirez: Lexical characteristics of Southwest Spanish and the Atlas linguistico de Hispanoamerica Susana V. Rivera-Mills: Acculturation and communicative need: Language shift in an ethnically diverse Hispanic community To order this volume, or past issues, please contact: Jon G. Jonz, Editor Southwest Journal of Linguistics Dept. of Literature and Languages P.O. Box 3011 Texas A&M U - Commerce Commerce, TX 75429-3011 USA E-mail: jon_jonzMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issuetamu-commerce.edu To subscribe to this journal, please contact: Neddy Vigil Linguistic Association of the Southwest Department of Spanish and Portuguese University of New Mexico Ortega Hall, Room #235 Albuquerque, NM 87131 E-mail: nvigil
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