Hispanic & Romance Linguistics

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Hispanic and Romance linguistics study language in all its aspects using scientific methods.  Research in the department covers the major areas of theoretical and applied linguistics in the Romance Languages including historical linguistics, language variation and change, pragmatics, semantics, and syntax, as well as the study of Catalan, Galician, Quechua, and endangered Indigenous languages of the Americas. 

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PhD student in Romance Linguistics interviewed by Galician newspaper

Eliot Westdorp, doctoral student in Romance Linguistics in the Department of Romance Languages, was recently interviewed by the Galician newspaper…

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Dr. María González-Ferrer Successfully Defends Dissertation

Congratulations to Dr. María González-Ferrer, who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, entitled "La reduplicación del clítico dativo en español: Adquisición en la L2 y variación" [Dative clitic doubling in…

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Numerous current and former UGA ROML linguists recently presented their research at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, hosted in Omaha, Nebraska October 17-19,…

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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…

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Doctoral student in Hispanic Linguistics awarded research grant

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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.

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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-…
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Recent Romance Linguistics faculty publication

The article entitled "El foco, la estructura informativa y el ser focalizador en el español cibaeño" [Focus, information structure, and focalizing ser in Cibaeño Spanish], authored by Dr.

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New Romance linguistics alumna publication

The Research Note entitled, "Processing polarity sensitivity in L2 Spanish" recently appeared in the Online First section of the leading academic journal Second Language…

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ROML students Caitlin Samples & Eliot Westdorp awarded Willson Center Graduate Research Awards

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New journal publication by ROML alum and faculty

Dr. Brian Gravely and Dr. Timothy Gupton recently published an article in the journal Isogloss on null-copula constructions in Galician and Asturian. The article is open access.

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Congratulations to Dr. María Morado-Vázquez!
Congratulations to Dr. María Morado-Vázquez!

Congratulations to University of Georgia's newest PhD in Romance Linguistics, Dr. María Morado-Vázquez, who successfully defended her dissertation, "La adquisición del orden sujeto-verbo en la intransitividad y la interfaz sintaxis-discurso: Un estudio…

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Congratulations to Dr. Ingrid Abisambra!

Please join us in warmly congratulating Ingrid Abisambra Miccheli on the successful defense of her dissertation, "Cognición y selección de sujetos: Análisis comparativo entre narrativas escritas y orales en el discurso de español como L2". The committee lauded…

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Congratulations to Dr. Bethany Bateman!

Congratulations to Bethany Bateman on the successful defense of her doctoral dissertation. Bethany’s dissertation, entitled “Contact-induced subjectivization in the compound past: an examination of PP/PRET variation in Cusco Spanish,” examines past reference…

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Bethany Bateman

Bethany Bateman

Lecturer, Spanish & Quechua

Bethany's doctoral thesis (Contact-induced subjectivization in the compound past: an examination of PP/PRET variation in Cusco Spanish) demonstrates how speaker perspective is encoded in the Quechua verbal system and influences non-canonical verb usage in Andean Spanish. She received the 2023 Excellence in Research Award for her work.

Sarah Blackwell

Sarah E. Blackwell

Professor of Spanish Linguistics

Spanish pragmatics and semantics, conversation and discourse analysis, applied linguistics

Pilar Chamorro

Pilar Chamorro Fernández

Associate Professor

Linguistic Fieldwork: Galician, Portuguese, Spanish, Malayalam, Tenetehára

Crosslinguistic study of the semantics and pragmatics of tense, aspect, modality, evidentiality, quantification, count/mass distinction and number

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Madeline Gilbert

Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics

Phonetics and phonology Laboratory phonology (production and perception) Sociolinguistic variability Acoustics Metathesis and other phonological processes

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Timothy Gupton

Professor of Spanish Linguistics

My primary interest is the representation of language in the monolingual and multilingual mind. In particular, I am interested in how discourse/information structure combines with word order, and what makes some word orders more acceptable than others. Although my primary languages of interest are Western Romance (Galician, Catalan, Spanish,…

Chad Howe

Chad Howe

Professor

Some Current Projects:

Grammaticalization and language change in Romance Languages Language variation and change in social media Incipient Language Shift in a Southern Latino Community Indigenous Languages in Latin America: Contact, Shift, and Maintenance

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