Areas
Linguistics, Medieval Spanish Linguistics
Interests and Current Work
I am a specialist in Romance and Hispanic linguistics. My principal research area is
the history of the Spanish language, with emphasis on the evolution over time of
the Spanish lexicon, and the nature of language change.
In the Department of Romance Languages, I regularly teach such undergraduate and
graduate courses as Introduction to the Romance Languages, History of the Spanish
Language, Medieval Spanish, Structure of Spanish, and New World Spanish.
I also hold an appointment in the Department of Linguistics and supervise the
Program in Romance Linguistics administered jointly by the Department of Romance
Languages and the Department of Linguistics.
Recent and Selected Publications
Etymology and Derivational Morphology: The Genesis of Old Spanish Denominal Adjectives in -ido. 1985.
Lexical Studies of Medieval Spanish Texts: A Bibliography of Concordances, Glossaries, Vocabularies and
Selected Word Studies. 1993.
Co-editor (with Dieter Wanner) of New Approaches to Old Problems: Issues in Romance Historical
Linguistics. 2000.
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