This book considers the role of cross-dialectal data in our understanding of linguistic variability, focusing on the widely discussed dichotomy between past tense forms and relying primarily on spoken language data from different varieties of Spanish.

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LEWIS (CHAD) HOWE is Assistant Professor in the Department of Romance Languages, University of Georgia, USA. His primary research focuses on language variation and change in Romance Languages. His publications have appeared in various journals and collections including Probus, Romance Philology, Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberamericana, and Romance Linguistics: Theory and Acquisition.

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List of Figures List of Tables Preface Introduction Perfect Features The Spanish Perfects The Perfect in Peruvian Spanish Perfective Perfects in Two Dialects of Spanish Conclusions Notes Bibliography Appendix A: A Sentence Judgment Task Appendix B: Interview Protocol