Department of Spanish and Portuguese

• Contact Linguistics
• Pidgins and Creoles
• Sociolinguistics
• Lexical Semantics
• Functional Syntax
• Morphology

Books

• The linguistic legacy of Spanish and Portuguese: Colonial expansion and language change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (2009)
• Functional approaches to Spanish syntax: Lexical semantics, discourse, transitivity (co-edited with Jiyoung Yoon). London: Palgrave-Macmillan (2006)

Articles

• “The expansion and evolution of Portuguese,” in The Cambridge handbook of language contact, edited by Salikoko S. Mufwene and Anna María Escobar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (to appear)
• “Negation in Korlai Indo-Portuguese,” in Negation and negative concord: the view from creoles, edited by Viviane Déprez and Fabiola Henri. Amsterdam: Benjamins. (to appear)
• “Speech communities, language varieties, and typology: what does acquisition have to do with it?” Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 33(2).413-434. (2018)
• “Speech communities, language varieties, and typology.” Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 33(1).173-191. (2018)
•  “Portuguese settlement of the Chaul/Korlai area and the formation of Korlai Creole Portuguese”. Journal of Language Contact (special issue entitled “The Early Years of Language Contact”, edited by Stefan Pfänder and Jeff Siegel), 1-23. (2015)
• “Form selection in contact languages: evidence from some Portuguese- and Spanish-lexified contact varieties,” in Portuguese/Spanish Interfaces, edited by Patrícia Amaral and Ana Maria Carvalho. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 377-401. (2014)
• “The status of Portuguese/Spanish /ɾ/ and /r/ in some Iberian-based creole languages.” Papia 24(2).315-328. (2014)
• “Contact intensity and the borrowing of bound morphology in Korlai Indo-Portuguese” (co-authored with Ana Luís), in Borrowed Morphology, edited by Gardani, Arkadiev, Amiridze. Berlin: Gruyter, 217-237. (2014)
• “Brazilian Portuguese and the ecology of (post-)colonial Brazil”, in Iberian Imperialism and Language Evolution in Latin America, edited by Salikoko Mufwene. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 186-204. (2014)
• “Notes on the phonology and lexicon of some Indo-Portuguese creoles,” in Ibero-Asian creoles: comparative perspectives, edited by Hugo C. Cardoso, Alan N. Baxter, and Mário Pinharanda Nunes. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 15-46. (2012)
• “The Spanish-based creoles”, Handbook of Hispanic Linguistics, edited by José Ignacio Hualde, Antxón Olarréa y Erin O'Rouke. Oxford: Blackwell, 27-46. (2012)
• “Language change in contact languages: grammatical and prosodic considerations. An introduction,” in Language change in contact situations: grammatical and prosodic considerations, co-edited with Shelome Gooden. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1-18. (2011)
•  “Gradual vs. abrupt creolization and recent changes in Daman Creole Portuguese”, Gradual creolization: Studies celebrating Jacques Arends, edited by Rachel Selbach,  Hugo Cardoso, and Margot van den Berg. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 55-75 (2009)
• “Accounting for some similarities and differences among the Indo-­Portuguese creoles,” Journal of Portuguese Linguistics 8(2).23-48 (2009)
• “A creole origin for Barlovento Spanish?: A linguistic and sociohistorical inquiry” (co-authored with Manuel Díaz-Campos), Language in Society 37.351-383. (2008)
• “Me dicen que suena raro cuando digo yo en todo momento: ¿por qué no es necesario usar el pronombre?”, El español a través de la lingüística: Pregunas y respeuestas, edited by Jennifer D. Ewald and Anne Edstrom . Somerville MA: Cascadilla Press, 83-94. (2008)
• “Korlai Creole Portuguese”, Comparative Creole Syntax, edited by John Holm and Peter Patrick. London: Battlebridge Press, 153-173. (2007)
• “The tense-aspect system in pidgins and naturalistically learned L2”, Studies in Second Language Acquisition 25:245-281. (2003)
• “Two Indo-Portuguese creoles in contrast” (co-authored with Andrew J. Koontz-Garboden), Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 17:191-236. (2002)
• “Word order shift and natural L2 acquisition in a Portuguese creole,” Romance Syntax, Semantics and L2 Acquisition, edited by Caroline Wiltshire and Joaquim Camps. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 73-87. (2001)

• LING 636 Pidgins and Creoles
• LING 530 Historical Linguistics
• LING 520 Sociolinguistics (graduate level)
• LING 315 Sociolinguistics (undergraduate level)
• LING 103 Introduction to the Study of Language
• SPAN 712: Graduate Seminar: Language Contact and Language Change
• SPAN 611: Advanced Spanish Syntax
• SPAN 511: Spanish Syntactic Analysis
• SPAN 326: Introducción a la Lingüística Española

• Research Travel Grant awarded by the College Arts and Humanities Institute to participate in a five-day workshop in order to carry out archival research at the University of Graz, Austria, December 16-20, 2013.
• Fellowship awarded by the Fundação Luso-Americana to carry out work in the Torre do Tombo archives, Lisbon, Portugal, June 13-July 15, 2011.

• The origin and evolution of Daman Creole Portuguese
• Creoles and typology
• Barranquenho: a Spanish-Portuguese language contact variety of Barrancos, Portuga