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Timothy Gupton

(Ph.D. University of Iowa, 2010) Research (my ORCID) Effective August 2024, I have been promoted to the rank of Professor.  I specialize in syntax, which means that I study sentence structure and word order. In my research, I seek to discover insight on how language structure is represented within the human mind—in monolinguals as well as bilinguals/multi-linguals. I do this by focusing on a variety of constructions in language. …


Pilar Chamorro Fernández

Pilar Chamorro's research focuses on the semantic and pragmatic contribution of temporal, aspectual, and modal expressions across languages. She is also interested in the semantics of plurals, the mass/count distinction, and quantification. She has done fieldwork on Spanish, Galician and Portuguese (Romance) since 2007, and on Malayalam (Dravidian) since 2013. Since 2015, she has been doing fieldwork  on Tenetehára (Tupi-Guarani) in Brazil…


Dana Bultman

I am a scholar of Spanish literature and culture. My research answers the question: how did religious culture shape literary themes and forms through the rise and decline of the Spanish Empire? Particularly I study moral theology in combination with poetry, novels, and treatises to interpret social roles and relationships. I recently co-edited, with Professor Dale Shuger of Tulane University, a special issue of Religions, "Theology and…


Sarah E. Blackwell

My main areas of interest in research and teaching include pragmatics (particularly Gricean and neo-Gricean pragmatics), the roles of pragmatics and semantics in language use and interpretation, discourse analysis, cognitive and functional linguistics, discourse reference and anaphora, discourse connectives and markers, Spanish/English contrastive pragmatics, and L2 pragmatics, language learning and applied linguistics. My research has focused…
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