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Teaching
Span4357
Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics; Span5340 The Structure of Spanish;
Span 5343 Spanish as a Second language: Principles of Second
Language Acquisition and Teaching; Span3358 Advanced Spanish; Span4358 Spanish for Heritage Speakers.
Research
My area of
specialization
is Spanish syntax and Linguistic Theory.
In
particular,
my research focuses on the
syntax-semantics interface. I have recently been studying the
syntax and interpretive properties of adjectival degree constructions
as an effort to increase our understanding of the extended
projection of
gradable adjectives.
I am also interested in the interaction between the notions of
degree, definiteness, specificity and judge-dependency.
In addition to these projects, I
have been researching
on the syntax of predicative degree
constructions. Currently, I am studying the formal and
interpretive properties of Spanish measure phrases.
Research articles
- Measure phrases within the
nominal domain in Spanish. (with Luis Eguren). Under review
- Interferences between Definiteness and
Judge-Dependency: Spanish Degree Modifiers. Under review
- Measure phrases with bare
adjectives in Spanish. (with Luis Eguren). Forthcoming in
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
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Sobre las interferencias
entre el grado, la (in)definitud y la (in)especificidad. (2011).
Revista Española de Lingüística 41.2. 117-145.
- Relaciones predicativas en
el interior de construcciones de grado adjetivas (2011). In
Cortázar, A. & Orozco, R. (Eds.), Lenguaje, arte y revoluciones
ayer y hoy: New Approaches to Hispanic Linguistic,
Literary, and
Cultural Studies.
Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 267-290
- Degree Modifiers, Definiteness, and
Specificity. (2011). Selected
Proceedings of the 13th Hispanic Linguistics
Symposium,
Cascadilla Press. 325-336
PDF
- Predicative Degree
Constructions in Spanish. (2010). Probus 22.1, 27-71.
Abstract
PDF (From Journal)
- Split Analysis of Gradable
Adjectives in Spanish (2008), Probus 20.2, 257-299.
Abstract
PDF
(From Journal)
- Sobre las Construcciones Consecutivas con
Adjetivos (2008), Hispania 91.3, 676-689.
Abstract
Link to Journal
- La Nuclearidad
y las Construcciones de Grado Adjetivas (2008), Revista de Lingüística
Teórica y Aplicada 46:1,
29-54.
PDF (From
Journal)
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Apuntes sobre poco (2006). in López Durán, J.D.
Actas del V congreso andaluz de lingüística general. Granada:
Granada Lingvistica, 657-665
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Poco y la
Denotación
de los Adjetivos
Graduables
(2005),
Cuadernos de Lingüística XII, 31-46.
Conference Presentations
2012. "Measure phrases within
the nominal domain in Spanish" (with Luis Eguren). Lingusitic
Symposium of Romance
Languages (LSRL 42). Southern Utah
Univesity. Cedar City, UT. April 20-22
2011. "Measure
phrases with bare adjectives in Spanish" (with Luis Eguren).
Going Romance XXV. University of Utrecht.
Utrecht (The Netherlands). December 8-11, 2011.
2010. "Predication relationships inside adjectival degree
constructions". XXXVI Incontro di Grammatica Generativa.
Universita degli Studi di Milano-Biccoca. Milan (Italy).
2010. "Predication relationships inside adjectival degree
constructions". XXVII Biennal
Louisiana Conference on Hispanic
Languages and Literatures.
Baton Rouge, Lousiana.
2009. "Degree modifiers, definiteness, and specificity". Hispanic Linguistics
Symposium 2009. University of Puerto Rico.
San Juan, PR.
2007. “Spanish poco and the split analysis of gradable
adjectives”. Georgetown University Round Table of Linguistics
07,
Georgetown University. Washington DC .
2007.
“On Spanish de as a partitive degree operator”. 2007 Kentucky
Foreign Languages Conference. University of
Kentucky.
Lexington, KY.
2004. “Poco y la denotación de los adjetivos graduables”
XXXIV Simposio de la Sociedad
Española de Lingüística. Madrid (Spain)
1998. “Algunas notas sobre la gradación”, XIII Encuentro de la
Asociación de Jóvenes Lingüistas. Universidad de
Salamanca
(Spain).
1996. “Los adjetivos relacionales como compuestos”. XXVI
Simposio de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística. Madrid
(Spain).
1995 “Dos tipos de adjetivos: Adjetivos relacionales y
adjetivos calificativos”. VII Encuentro de la Asociación de
Jóvenes
Lingüistas. The University of Vitoria (Spain).
1995 “La interfaz sintaxis-morfología en el periodo de 18 a 24
meses”, I International Meeting on
the Acquisition of
National Languages. University of Santiago de
Compostela (Spain).
Academic and Administrative Experience
Aug 2005-present. Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics.
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. Southern
Methodist University, Dallas, TX.
Courses taught: Introduction to Spanish Linguistics; The
Structure of Spanish (Spanish Syntax); Spanish Advanced Grammar,
and Spanish Advanced Grammar for Heritage Speakers.
Aug 2003-May 2005. Spanish Language Coordinator. CIEE Seville
Study Center in affiliation with
Universidad de Sevilla and Universidad Pablo de Olavide.
Seville (Spain).
Courses taught: Taught all levels of Spanish language and
culture. Courses created: Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics;
Writing for Academic Purposes; Advanced Grammar and Style;
Intensive Advanced Grammar.
Spanish Program Coordination: Reviewed and revised
the Spanish Language Curriculum, created web-based Placement
Exams, provided teacher training in Placement Evaluation,
Language Teaching Methodology (including the Communicative
Approach) and Writing Across the Curriculum, interviewed and
hired new language faculty, initiated a Peer Tutoring Program in
conjunction with the Department of Spanish Philology at the
University of Seville.
Aug
2000-June 2003. Supervisor of Intermediate Spanish and
Instructor of all levels of Spanish. The George Washington
University, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures,
Washington D.C.
Courses Taught: Elementary, Intermediate and
Advanced Spanish language and culture courses and Advanced
Grammar and Style.
Supervision: Intermediate Spanish Language and
Culture and Advanced Grammar and Style Created syllabi, wrote
course materials, selected texts, visited classes, trained
language faculty, evaluated Placement and Diagnostic Tool and
Exit Exams for graduate students in Spanish, wrote training
manual for evaluators, participated in Language Curriculum
Committee, served as advisor to students who studied abroad or
at other institutions, served on Departmental Study Abroad
Committee (GWU Madrid Program).
Jan
2000-June 2000. Visiting Instructor of Spanish. The George
Washington University, Department of Romance Languages and
Literatures, Washington D.C.
Taught Intermediate Spanish. Supervised Intermediate/Advanced
Spanish; evaluated Placement Tool, Diagnostic and Exit Exams.
Introduced a pilot course in Advanced Grammar and Style
Aug
1999-Dec 1999. Lecturer in Spanish. The George Washington
University, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures,
Washington D.C.
Taught Intermediate Spanish and Culture
Aug
1998-Dec 1999. Visiting Scholar in Spanish Linguistics.
Georgetown University, Department of Spanish and Portuguese,
Washington D.C.
Taught all levels of Spanish language and culture;
Expository Writing.
Academic Honors and Awards
2011 Rotunda Outstanding Professor Award. Southern Methodist
University. Dallas, TX
Aug08-May09. Research Leave. Southern Methodist University,
Dallas, TX.
Jun-Aug 2006. University Research Grant. University Research
Council. Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX.
Conducted research on the internal
syntax of adjectival projections headed by a gradable adjective.
Aug
1998-Dec 1999. Visiting Scholar in Spanish Linguistics.
Georgetown University, Department of Spanish and Portuguese,
Washington D.C.
Conducted research on Semantics and Syntax of
gradability.
Jan
1997-June 1997. Visiting Researcher in Spanish Linguistics.
Georgetown University, Department of Spanish and Portuguese,
Washington D.C.
Conducted research on the grammar of relational
adjectives.
1994-96. Doctoral Fellowship, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid,
Department of Spanish Philology.
Madrid (Spain).
Languages
Spanish
(Native)
English
(Spoken, read, written)
Catalan
(Read)
French
(Read)
Galician
(Read)
Italian
(Read)
Portuguese
(Read)
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