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Professor of Romance Linguistics and Spanish

• Affiliation(s)

  • Romance Languages & Literatures

• Fields of Study

  • Historical linguistics

• About

  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 

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  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.

• Education

  • BA, Carleton University, 1968
  • MA, University of Illinois, 1969
  • PhD, University of California-Berkeley, 1974

• Research Areas of Interest

  • Linguistics, Medieval Spanish Linguistics

• Selected Publications:

• Books

  • (2012) A History of the Spanish Lexicon

• Articles

  • (2010) Thoughts on the Re-Latinization of the Spanish Lexicon, Romance Philology
  • (2008) Some Thoughts on Dialectology and Spanish Historical Linguistics, Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
  • (2006) Cambio léxico en el Medioevo tardío: la pérdida del esp. ant. Esleer y poridad, Revista de Historia de la Lengua Española
  • (2005) La historia de la lengua y el cambio léxico, Iberorromania
  • (2004) Progress in Medieval Spanish Lexicography, II, Romance Philology

• Book Chapters

  • (2011) Lexical change, Cambridge History of the Romance Languages
  • (2009) El papel de la semántica cognitiva y de la de la tipología léxica en los estudios etimológicos, El hispanismo omnipresente. Homenaje a Robert Verdonk
  • (2009) Further thoughts on the Latin lexical base of Hispano-Romance, Romanística sin complejos: Homenaje a Carmen Pensado
  • (2008) Toward a typology of lexical borrowing: Primary adjectives as loanwords in Spanish, Lenguas en diálogo El iberorromance y su diversidad lingüística y literaria. Ensayos en Homenaje a Georg Bossong
  • (2008) Para una tipología del cambio léxico: los préstamos en el español, Actas del VII Congreso Internacional de Historia de la Lengua Española