Frontmatter -- Introduction -- Linguistic heterogeneity, civil strife and per capita gross national product in inter-polity perspective / Fishman, Joshua A. -- A reconsideration of the notion of loan translation in the analysis of U.S. Spanish / Otheguy, Ricardo -- The dialectics of Spanish language loyalty and maintenance on the U.S.-Mexico border: A two-generation study / Hidalgo, Margarita -- Spanish clitics in a contact situation / Gutiérrez, Manuel J. / Silva-Corvalán, Carmen -- Language choice in Hispanic-background junior high school students in Miami: A 1988 update / Pearson, Barbara Zurer / McGee, Arlene -- Literacy stories: Features of unplanned oral discourse / Cisneros, René / Leone, Elizabeth A. -- Language maintenance institutions of the Isleño dialect of Spanish / Coles, Felice Anne -- Convergent conceptualizations as predictors of degree of contact in U.S. Spanish / Otheguy, Ricardo / García, Ofelia -- Creoloid phenomena in the Spanish of transitional bilinguals / Lipski, John M. -- Diversification and Pan-Latinity: Projections for the teaching of Spanish to bilinguals / Aparicio, Frances R. -- Oral proficiency testing and the bilingual speaker / Barnwell, David -- Index of Subjects