Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies

Carol Klee

Fernando Arenas

Curriculum Vitae

Professor
Fall 2009 Office Hours: by appointment
Assistant Vice President for International Scholarship
Director, European Studies Consortium
Office:
4E Folwell
Phone: 612-625-9521
Email: klee@umn.edu
Scholarly Interests: • Spanish language contact • sociolinguistics • content-based language instruction
Department Affiliations
Specialties
  • Spanish language contact
  • sociolinguistics
  • content-based language instruction
Degrees & Institutions
  • Ph.D., Hispanic Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin, 1984
  • M.A., Hispanic Literatures, State University of Texas at Austin, 1980
  • B.A., Spanish, The College of Wooster, 1975
Current Research
  • “Language Change in Peru: Dialect Contact as a Result of Andean Migration to Lima”: Sociolinguistic research project in collaboration with Rocio Caravedo.
Recent Publications
  • Klee, Carol A. Forthcoming, 2009. Migration and globalization: Their effects on contact varieties of Latin American Spanish” in Español en los Estados Unidos y en otros contextos: Cuestiones sociolingüísticas, políticas y pedagógicas, ed. by Manel Lacorte y Jennifer Leeman. Vervuert/Iberoamericana.
  • Klee, Carol A. and Andrew Lynch. Forthcoming, 2009. El español en contacto con otras lenguas. Georgetown University Press.
  • Klee, Carol A. 2008. Sé que el inglés influye en el español y vice versa. ¿Qué pasa en regiones donde el español está en contacto con otras lenguas? El español a través de la lingüística: Preguntas y respuestas, ed. by Anne Edstrom and Jennifer Ewald, 144-154. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
  • Ocampo, Francisco y Carol A. Klee. 2007. Español en contacto con quechua: variación en el orden de palabras en construcciones con adverbios en hablantes bilingües quechua-español. Signo y Seña (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
  • Klee, Carol A. 2006. An Unforeseen Consequence of the Boom in Spanish: Who Is Teaching the Majors? ADFL Bulletin 37 (nos. 2-3).21-5.
  • Klee, Carol A. and Rocío Caravedo. 2006. Andean Spanish and the Spanish of Lima: Linguistic variation and change in a contact situation. Globalisation and the Spanish-speaking World, ed. by Clare Mar-Molinero and Miranda Stewart, 94-113. Palgrave Macmillan Publisher.
  • Klee, Carol A. and Gwendolyn Barnes-Karol. 2006. A content-based approach to Spanish language study: Foreign languages across the curriculum. Spanish Second Language Acquisition: State of the Art of Application, ed. by Barbara Lafford and Rafael Salaberry, 23-38. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press.
  • Lynch, Andrew and Carol A. Klee. 2005. Estudio comparativo de actitudes hacia el español en los Estados Unidos: educación, política y entorno social. Lingüística Española Actual (Madrid) 27.273-300.
  • Alvord, Scott, Nelsy Echávez-Solano, and Carol Klee. 2005. La (r) asibilada en el español andino: un estudio sociolingüístico. Lexis (Lima, Peru) XXIX.27-45.
  • Klee, Carol A. and Rocío Caravedo. 2005. Contact-induced language change in Lima, Peru: The case of clitic pronouns. Selected Proceedings of the 7th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, ed. by David Eddington, 12-21. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. www.lingref.com, document #1082.
  • Koike, Dale and Carol A. Klee. 2003. Lingüística aplicada: La adquisición del español como segunda lengua. NY: Wiley.
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