Spanish-Mayan language contact and bilingualism
Phonological variation in Yucatan Spanish
2022. Recomplementation between discourse and grammar: A syntactic investigation combining historical and experimental methods. Penn State Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University
2022. On the inertia of linguistic ideas: Revisiting the dichotomy between closed and open classes. Language Sciences 89, 101445
2022. Revisiting the concept of “triggering” of code-switching. Penn State Ph.D. Data Analyst, Division of Food Defense Targeting, U.S. Food & Drug Administration
2021. Gender assignment: Monolingual constraints contribute to a bilingual outcome. International Journal of Bilingualism (co-author: Trevor Bero).
2022. Spanish rhotic variation in Corozal Town, Belize. Penn State Ph.D. Project Manager, National Artificial Intelligence Institute, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
2021.‘‘Perfect’’ asymmetry: Variation in Judeo-Spanish as a window into the diachrony of perfect auxiliaries. Lingua 258 (2021) 103086
2021. Focus, contrast and conversation: A variationist study of “[Verb+ser+X]” constructions in Colombian Spanish. Penn State Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia
2022. From Ser Focalizador and Contrast to the Presuppositional [Verb+Ser+X] Construction in Spanish. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 15(2).
2015-2019
Dora LaCasse
2018. The subjunctive in New Mexican Spanish: Maintenance in the face of language contact. Penn State Ph.D. Assistant Professor, University of Montana
Jonathan Steuck
2018. The prosodic-syntactic structure of intra-sentential multi-word code-switching in the New Mexico Spanish-English bilingual community. Penn State Ph.D. Language Engineer, Amazon
Grant M. Berry
2018. Liminal voices, central constraints: Minority adoption of majority sound change. Penn State Ph.D. Assistant professor, Villanova University
Miguel Ramos Riquelme
2016. A diachronic variationist approach to the study of subject pronoun expression in Spanish: First-person singular. Penn State Ph.D. Assistant professor, Universidad de O’Higgins
2010-2014
Hiram Smith
2014. Patterns of variable aspectual marking in Palenquero creole. Penn State Ph.D. Associate professor, Bucknell University.
Colleen Balukas
2014. The impact of code-switching and cognate status on phonetic realizations in the New Mexican Spanish-English bilingual community. Penn State Ph.D. Assistant professor, SUNY Buffalo.
Joseph Bauman
2013. From possession to obligation: modal grammaticalization and variation. Penn State Ph.D. Associate Teaching Professor of Spanish, Penn State University.
Evelyn Durrán-Urrea
2012. A community-based study of social, prosodic, and syntactic factors in code-switching. Penn State Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Lehman College, CUNY.
2005-2009
Mary T. Copple
2009. A diachronic study of the Spanish perfect(ive): Tracking the constraints on a grammaticalizing construction. University of New Mexico PhD. Associate professor and Spanish Language Program Coordinator, Kansas State University.
Earl Brown
2008. A usage-based account of syllable- and word-final /s/ reduction in four dialects of Spanish. University of New Mexico PhD. Associate professor, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Brigham Young University.
Jessi Elana Aaron
2006. Variation and change in Spanish future temporal expression. University of New Mexico PhD. Associate professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Florida.
Jens Clegg
2006. Lone English-origin nouns in the Spanish of New Mexico: A variationist analysis of phonological and morphological adaptation. University of New Mexico PhD. Professor, Department of International Language and Culture Studies, Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne.
Mark Waltermire
2006. Social and linguistic correlates of Spanish-Portuguese bilingualism on the Uruguayan-Brazilian border. University of New Mexico PhD. Professor, Department of Languages and Linguistics, New Mexico State University.
Matthew Alba
2005. Hiatus resolution between words in New Mexican Spanish: A usage-based account. University of New Mexico PhD. Associate professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Brigham Young University-Idaho.
Mayra Cortes Torres
2005. La perífrasis ESTAR + -NDO en el español puertorriqueño: ¿variación dialectal o contacto lingüístico? University of New Mexico PhD. Instructor, Pima Community College, Tucson, Arizona.
2000-2004
José Esteban Hernández
2004.Present Perfect variation and grammaticization in Salvadoran Spanish. University of New Mexico PhD. Professor, Department of Writing and Language Studies, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.
Esther L. Brown
2004. The reduction of initial /s/ in New Mexican Spanish: A usage-based approach. University of New Mexico PhD. Associate professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Colorado at Boulder.
Marcela Hurtado
2001. La variable expression del sujeto en el español de los colombianos y colombo-americanos residentes en el condado de Miami-Dade. University of Florida PhD. Professor, Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Central Michigan University.