Curriculum Vitae

Department Affiliations

• Spanish & Portuguese

Specialties

• language and ideology
• language variation
• relationship between syntax, cognition and discourse
• word order in spoken Spanish

Recent Publications

• Forthcoming. On the reliability of the question/answer test to elicit focus: Why speakers cannot be left outside. Proceedings of the 9th International Columbia School Conference on the Interaction of Linguistic Form, Meaning, and Human Behavior, ed. by Robert de Jonge. Amsterdam Philadelphia: John Benjamins. REFEREED.
• Forthcoming. Mirá: From verb to discourse particle in Rioplatense Spanish. Selected Proceedings of the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2007, University of Texas at San Antonio. Cascadilla Press Proceedings Project.
• 2008. La evolución de la forma léxica viste de verbo a partícula discursiva en castellano rioplatense. Un proceso de discursivización. Actas del XV Congreso Internacional de ALFAL. Montevideo, Uruguay, August 18-21, 2008.
• 2008. El orden de palabras en construcciones con una cópula, un adjetivo y un adverbio en español Rioplatense. Lingüística 20. REFEREED.
• 2007. Español en contacto con Quechua. Variación en el orden de palabras en construcciones con adverbios en hablantes bilingües quechua-español. Signo & Seña 16. Interculturalidad y Lengua, ed. by Anita Herzferl and Angelita Martínez. Instituto de Lingüística, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  In collaboration with Carol A. Klee. INVITED.
• 2007. Estudios Hispánicos: Perspectivas internacionales. Hispanic Issues On Line 2. Co-Edition on line with Nicholas Spadaccini and Luis Estudillo.
  http://spanport.cla.umn.edu/publications/HispanicIssues/Online_2007.html
• 2007 Introducción. Co-Authored with Nicholas Spadaccini and Luis Estudillo. In Estudios Hispánicos: Perspectivas internacionales. Hispanic Issues On Line 2. http://spanport.cla.umn.edu/publications/HispanicIssues/Online_2007.html
• 2007 Crossing the Boundaries: Culture, Linguistics, and Literature. In collaboration with Ana Forcinito. In Debates, Hispanic Issues on Line. http://spanport.cla.umn.edu/publications/HispanicIssues/Debates_Main.html
• 2006. La evolución de bueno de adjetivo a partícula discursiva. Un proceso de discursivización. Oralia 9. Análisis del discurso oral. Ed. Arco Libros. REFEREED.
• 2006. Debating Hispanic Studies: Reflections on our Disciplines. Hispanic Issues On Line 1. Co-Edition on line with Nicholas Spadaccini and Luis Estudillo. http://spanport.cla.umn.edu/publications/HispanicIssues/hispanic-issues-online/hiol-main.htm
• 2006. Introduction: The State of Hispanic Linguistics in the American University. Debating Hispanic Studies: Reflections on our Disciplines. Ed. by Luis Estudillo, Francisco Ocampo, and Nicholas Spadaccini. http://spanport.cla.umn.edu/publications/HispanicIssues/hispanic-issues-online/hispanic%20issues%20online-1.htm
• 2006. Movement towards discourse is not grammaticalization: The evolution of claro from adjective to discourse particle in spoken Spanish. Selected Proceedings of the 9th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, ed. by Nuria Sagarra and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio. Cascadilla Press Proceedings Project. REFEREED. http://www.lingref.com/cpp/hls/9/paper1388.pdf
• 2005. Variación en el orden de palabras: construcciones con un verbo intransitivo, un sujeto y un adverbio. Signo & Seña. Variación, ed. by Angelita Martínez. 13.255-270. Instituto de Lingüística, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. INVITED.
• 2005. El orden de palabras en español hablado: Construcciones con un verbo cópula, un sintagma nominal sujeto y un sintagma nominal complemento. Actas del XIV Congreso Internacional de ALFAL. Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey, México. NON REFEREED.
• 2005. La incidencia de factores pragmáticos, sintácticos y prosódicos en la variación del orden de palabras en construcciones con un verbo transitivo, un sujeto y un adverbio. Actas del XII Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de la América Latina. Santiago de Chile. NON REFEREED
• 2005. The Word Order of Constructions with an Intransitive Verb, a Subject, and an Adverb in Spoken Spanish. Selected Proceedings of the 7th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, ed. by David Eddington. Sommerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. REFEREED.
• 2005. Word order variation in spoken Spanish in constructions with a verb, a direct object, and an adverb. The interaction of syntactic, cognitive, pragmatic, and prosodic features. Robert Kirsner, Ellen Contini-Morava, and Betsy Rodriguez-Bachiller, eds. Cognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic Analysis. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 341-360. REFEREED.

Courses Taught

• Span 3702 - The Structure of Spanish: Morphology and Syntax
• Span 8730 - Seminar in Spanish and Portuguese Syntax
• Span 5714 - Theoretical Foundations of Spanish Syntax
• Span 8750 - Seminar in Spanish and Portuguese Pragmatics
• Span 5716 - The Structure of Modern Spanish: Pragmatics
• Span 5701 - The History of Ibero-Romance
• Span 3703 - History of Spanish Language
• Span 3107 - Introduction to the Study of Hispanic Linguistics