Frontmatter -- PREFATORY NOTE -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- List of Abbreviations -- I. Introduction -- II. Attempts at a Global View of American Spanish -- III. Linguistic Aspects of Immigration and Settlement -- IV. Lexicography and Etymology Geared to Local Needs -- V. Philological Approach to Older Stages of Peninsular Spanish -- VI. Historical Ingredients of Dialectology -- VII. Social Implications of Regional Speech -- VIII. Stylistically Isolable Elements of the Literary Language -- IX. Onomatology -- X. Conclusion -- Supplement (November 1971) -- Index of Names -- Index of Topicsweiterlesen