Expertise
Sociolinguistics, Contact Linguistics, Dialectology, Pidgins, Creoles
Biography
My research interests crisscross the fields of Hispanic and Portuguese sociolinguistics, languages in contact, creole studies and dialectology. I study language variation and change (past and present), in the context of sociopolitical factors such as urban migration, mobility and borders.
Selected Publications
- La cosa nostra: estudios lingüístico-literarios sobre la inmigración italiana en Argentina. Buenos Aires: Editorial Dunken. (2019, editor).
- “El conventillo como microespacio del contacto lingüístico”. In La cosa nostra: estudios lingüístico-literarios sobre la inmigración italiana en Argentina. (2019).
- “Mobiliy and family ties in dialect formation”. Límite 12: 241-258 (2018).
- Marginalidad y delincuencia en la formación dialectal: el caso del español rioplatense. Madrid: Editorial Académica Española (2017).
- “El lunfardo en la evolución del español argentino.” Estudios de literatura y lingüística 34:335-356 (2016).
- “Language retention and attrition in the Tonga Umbundu of São Tomé and Príncipe.” Sage Open Oct-Dec:1-11 (2015).
- “Immigrants’ languages, lunfardo and lexical diffusion in popular porteño Spanish”. Papia 24: 329-351 (2013).
- “El contacto español-quechua en la novela de formación Shunko” Revista Philologica Romanica 11: 187-205 (2011).
- “African vs. Austronesian Substrate Influence on the Spanish-based Creoles”. In Holm & Michaelis (eds.), Contact Languages: Critical Concepts in Language Studies. Routledge, 309-408 (2008).
- The Morphosyntax of Spanish-lexified creoles. Munich: Lincom Europa (2001).
- The Angolar Creole Portuguese of São Tomé (West Africa): its grammar and sociolinguistic history. Munich: Lincom Europa (1998).
Courses Taught
- Hispanic Dialectology
- Spanish Syntax
- Spanish Dialect Syntactic Variation
- Urban Dialectology: Spanish Varieties and Variation in Philadelphia
- Spanish and Portuguese in Contact with Other Languages
- Methods in Hispanic Dialectology
- Language and Migration in the Spanish-speaking world
- Pidgins and Creoles
- Spanish Sociolinguistics
- Bilingual Communities
- History of the Spanish Language
- Introduction to Spanish Linguistics
- Spanish Phonetics
- Language Attrition and Language Death
- Advanced Spanish Grammar
- Advanced Spanish Conversation and Composition
- Spanish Composition and Conversation
- Hispanic Readings
- Spanish Conversational Review
- Intermediate Spanish I
- Basic Spanish I
- Readings in Portuguese
- Portuguese Conversation and Composition
- Intermediate Portuguese I
- Basic Portuguese I