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