This book offers a comprehensive overview of the syntactic variation of the dialects of Spanish. More precisely, it covers Spanish theoretical syntax that takes as its data source non-standard grammatical phenomena.Approaching the syntactic variation of Spanish dialects opens a door not only to the intricacies of the language, but also to a set of challenges of linguistic theory itself, including language variation, language contact, bilingualism, and diglossia. The volume is divided into two main sections, the first focusing on Iberian Spanish and the second on Latin American Spanish. Chapters cover a wide range of syntactic constructions and phenomena, such as clitics, agreement, subordination, differential object marking, expletives, predication, doubling, word order, and subjects.This volume constitutes a milestone in the study of syntactic variation, setting the stage for future work not only in vernacular Spanish, but all languages.

I. European Spanish1. Differential Object Marking and clitic dubspecification in Catalonian SpanishFrancisco Ord??ez and Francesc Roca2. Mass / count distinctions in Ibero-Romance dialectsIn?s Fern?ndez-Ord??ez3. Empty Categories and CliticsJuan Romero4. Dialectal variation in clitic placement in Andalusian and Asturian Spanish negative infinitival imperativesJulio Villa-Garc?a5. Polarity questions with fronted foci in the Spanish of the Basque CountryAritz Irurtzun6. Causativity in Southern Peninsular Spanish?ngel Jim?nez-Fern?ndez and Mercedes Tubino-BlancoII. American Spanish7. Citic doubling in a doubling world. The case of Argentinean Spanish reconsidered?ngela Di Tullio, Andr?s Saab, and Pablo Zdrojewski8. Syntactic phenomena in Peruvian SpanishMiguel Rodr?guez-Mondo?edo9. Contrastive focus in Yucatecan SpanishRodrigo Guti?rrez-Bravo, Carlos Mart?n Sobrino, and Melanie Uth10. Caribbean Spanish and theoretical syntax. An overview.Ignacio Bosque and Jos? M. Brucart11. On left-peripheral expletives in Central Colombian SpanishJos? Camacho12. Reportative que in Mexican SpanishEsthela Trevi?oSubject IndexLanguage Index