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Director of ELI
Office Location(s): 555 S. Forest Avenue, 3rd Floor, #300 Phone: 734.615.9550 dworkin@umich.edu Homepage View Curriculum Vitae
Steven N. Dworkin is Director of the English Language Institute, Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures, and Professor of Linguistics. He specializes in Romance and Hispanic diachronic linguistics, with emphasis on the evolution of the lexicon. His recent publications have dealt with internal structural factors which have led to changes (especially word loss) in the vocabulary of Medieval Spanish. He is currently studying the interface between semantic change, syntactic change and lexical loss.
Professor Dworkin is also interested in issues of Spanish diachronic phonology and morphology (both inflectional and derivational), as well as the application to Spanish and Romance historical linguistics of recent insights on language change afforded by typology, grammaticalization and sociohistorical linguistics.
