Expertise

Sociolinguistics, Contact Linguistics, Dialectology, Pidgins, Creoles

Biography

My research crisscrosses Hispanic sociolinguistics and dialectology, languages in contact and creole studies. I study language variation and change 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 Lorenzino (ed.), 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

Upper-level Undergraduate

  • Ecolinguistics of Philadelphia Spanish
  • Spanish Sociolinguistics
  • Language and Gender
  • Hispanic Dialectology
  • Spanish Syntax
  • Sociosyntactic variation in Spanish
  • Spanish Dialect Syntactic Variation
  • Spanish Phonology and Morphology
  • Urban Dialectology: Variation in Spanish Philadelphia
  • Spanish/Portuguese in Contact with Other Languages
  • Methods in Hispanic Dialectology
  • Language and Migration in the Spanish-speaking world
  • Pidgins and Creoles
  • History of the Spanish Language
  • Introduction to Spanish Linguistics
  • Spanish Phonetics
  • Portuguese Dialectology
  • Internship
  • Language Attrition and Language Death
  • Foreign Language Teaching Methodologies
  • Advanced Spanish Grammar for Communication
  • Advanced Spanish Conversation and Composition

Lower-level Undergraduate

  • Basic Spanish I
  • Basic Spanish II
  • Basic Portuguese I
  • Intermediate Spanish
  • Spanish Conversational Review
  • Intermediate Portuguese
  • Hispanic Readings I
  • Portuguese Conversation and Composition
  • Readings in Portuguese
  • Spanish Composition and Conversation
  • Bilingual Communities
  • Language in Society