Includes bibliographical references and index.

Colombian Spanish at the turn of the 21st century / Rafael Orozco, Richard J. File-Muriel -- The "new" palenquero: revitalization and re-creolization / John M. Lipski -- El español hablado en el Pacífico de Colombia: dos rasgos fonéticos de presento sustrato africano / José Alejandro Correa -- Locational adverbs in Colombian Spanish conversation / Catherine E. Travis, Timothy Jowan Curnow -- The syntax of the focalizing ser ('to be') structure in the Spanish of Bucaramanga / Catalina Mndez Vallejo -- A laboratory approach to s-lenition in the Spanish of Barranquilla, Colombia / Richard J. File-Muriel -- La variable expresión de la impersonalidad en el español de los colombianos de Bogotá y Miami / Luz Marcela Hurtado Cubillos -- Second person singular pronoun use during closed role plays by Colombians in the North Carolina Piedmont Triad / Scott Lamanna -- The expression of nominal possession in the Spanish of Colombians in New York City / Rafael Orozco.