This volume contains 26 papers selected from among those presented at the 12th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, which took place from October 23-26, 2008 at Laval University in Quebec City, Canada. The volume included plenaries from Brenda Laca and Enrique Obediente Sosa. The papers are grouped into sections on Syntax, Semantics, Phonology, and Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics and Language Variation; and Acquisition. The complete table of contents is available at http://www.lingref.com/cpp/hls/12/index.html along with abstracts and the complete papers in PDF format.

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