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.

Curriculum Vitae

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