Department of Spanish and Portuguese

I have taught Spanish and Linguistics at various levels at Indiana University and the University of Puerto Rico. Currently, I supervise S280 and work with Heritage Spanish speakers at IU. My research focuses on Caribbean Spanish with particular interest in Puerto Rican Spanish. My areas of interest are morphosyntactic variation, phonetic and phonology, sociolinguistics which I approach from Grammaticalization Theory. 

Publications

Books 

• Delgado-Díaz, G. (2021). The evolution of Spanish past forms. Routledge.
  

Articles in refereed Journals 

• Delgado-Díaz, G. (forthcoming). The imperfect progressive in Puerto Rican Spanish: A case of language contact or grammaticalization. 
  

Articles in refereed edited volumes  

• Delgado-Díaz, G & Galarza, I. (2023). The narrative present: Priming effects in personal narratives. In S. Balasch and M. Díaz-Campos (Eds.) Handbook of Usage-Based Linguistics.
  
• Delgado-Díaz, G. & Galarza, I. (forthcoming). Análisis socio fonético de la vibrante múltiple en el español de Puerto Rico.  
• Delgado-Díaz, G. (in press). La variación fonética y fonológica en el español puertorriqueño. In M. Díaz-Campos (ed.) Enciclopedia Concisa de los Dialectos del Español. 
• Delgado-Díaz, G. (2021). Form-function asymmetry: An example from Spanish past time expressions. In M. Díaz-Campos (Ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Variationist Approaches to Hispanic Linguistics.

Articles in refereed conference proceedings  

• Pollock, M., Delgado-Díaz, G., Galarza, I., Díaz-Campos, M. & Willis, E. (2023). The emergence of sound change in two varieties of Spanish: A usagebased analysis of variable trill /r/ production in Caracas, Venezuela, and Caguas, Puerto Rico. Selected proceedings of the Hispanic Linguistic Symposium.