Tags: Romance Linguistics

Images of current and former Linguists from HLS2024
UGA students and faculty present at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS)

Numerous current and former UGA ROML linguists recently presented their research at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium1, hosted in Omaha, Nebraska October 17-19, 2024.  Congratulations to all of them! Sarah Hubbel (UGA PhD 2024, now University of North Georgia): Predicate constituent order variation in the Spanish-Quechua contact situation of Cusco, Peru Caitlin Samples (UGA/Stanford University): Four years later: is gender-inclusive…
Romance Linguistics, Spanish, Linguistics

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New Romance Linguistics faculty co-publication with ROML alumnus

The article "What formal approaches to syntactic interfaces can tell us about the syntax of preverbal and prenominal constituents in Galician" recently appeared in New Developments in Galician Linguistics, a special issue of the journal Languages guest edited by Dr. Xosé Luís Regueira and Dr. Elisa Fernández Rei, both of the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain).  This article was co-authored by Dr. Timothy Gupton and UGA…
Romance Linguistics


Madeline Gilbert

My research interests lie in phonetics and phonology.  More specifically, my research focuses on laboratory phonology, phonological representations, and sociophonetic variability.  Disentangling surface forms (the sounds we produce) from abstract forms (how they are represented in the brain) has always been a primary goal for phonological theories, but finding appropriate methods to test these questions is challenging.  I use a…

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Doctoral student in Hispanic Linguistics awarded research grant

María González-Ferrer has been selected as a recipient of a 2024 Sigma Delta Pi (SDP) Graduate Research Grant Award among a very competitive pool of applicants nationwide. This will be a huge help in funding María's dissertation research project on clitic doubling in the Spanish of Spain, Argentina, and Mexico. ¡Enhorabuena, María!
Romance Linguistics, Spanish

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Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Hubbel!

Congratulations to Sarah Hubbel, who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, entitled "Predicate constituent order variation in the Andes: A comparative analysis of Andean Spanish and bilingual Cusco Quechua" on March 27, 2024.
Spanish, Romance Linguistics, Linguistics

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New Romance Linguistics faculty co-publication with UGA alumnus

The article "Processing dissociations between raising and control in Brazilian Portuguese" recently appeared in the First View portion of the Journal of Linguistics. This article was co-published by UGA Department of Linguistics alumnus Dr. Douglas Merchant (PhD, 2019) and Dr. Timothy Gupton. This project started before the Covid-19 pandemic, and is the first manuscript resulting from this collaboration. Congratulations to them! 
Portuguese, Romance Linguistics, Linguistics

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Congratulations to Dr. Ningxian Li!

Congratulations to Ningxian Li, who successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, entitled "V(P) copying in Spanish and Chinese" on January 26, 2024. In his dissertation, Li compares the syntax, semantics, and information structure of verb-fronting and predicate-fronting constructions in Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. The committee was impressed by the coherence and organization of his argumentation. ¡Felicitaciones, Dr. Li!   Sarah…
Spanish, Romance Linguistics


Vanessa Revheim

Vanessa Revheim is a Ph.D. student in Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Georgia. She has been actively engaged in community-based learning, serving as a teaching assistant for SPAN/LACS 4090S: Practicum in Service Learning, where she supported students’ partnerships with Spanish-speaking communities in Athens, GA. Vanessa’s research focuses on heritage language acquisition, particularly the maintenance of Brazilian Portuguese in…


Allonah Ezro-Christy

I'm a Ph.D. student in Romance Language Linguistics and currently instructor of record for SPAN 2001. Between completing my M.A. and starting my Ph.D. here at UGA, I was a lecturer for 5 years at SUNY Potsdam in Northern New York teaching Spanish, French, and English for non-native speakers. I also volunteered with AFS as a liaison and orientation coordinator for high school students from abroad studying in the U.S.Study abroad holds a…


Chad Howe

My primary area of research is language variation and change, focusing on structural phenomena in the Romance Languages. More generally, I investigate the forces that shape language use and the subsequent effect that these forces have on how language evolves. The most recent extension of this research involves analyzed data from social media for evidence of language change. I am also involved in work related to Spanish/Quechua contact. For a…
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