Rena Torres Cacoullos
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Rena Torres Cacoullos is an American linguist[1] widely known for her work on and change, as well as her research on processes of grammaticalization and the linguistic outcomes of language contact. She is a leading expert on New Mexican Spanish and has developed a corpus of code-switched speech in the New Mexican Spanish-English bilingual community with collaborator Catherine E. Travis. Torres Cacoullos is currently Professor of Spanish Linguistics in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the Pennsylvania State University. She has served as an editor of since 2007.
Bibliography[]
Volumes authored[]
Grammaticization, synchronic variation, and language contact. A study of Spanish progressive -ndo constructions. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2000.
Other publications[]
A complete list of Torres Cacoullos' published book chapters, papers, and proceedings publications can be found in her curriculum vitae, located on her webpage.
References[]
- ^ Gutierrez-Rexach, J (2003). "Review of" Grammaticization, Synchronic Variation, and Language Contact. A Study of Spanish Progressive-Constructions"". Studies in Language. John Benjamins Publishing. doi:10.1075/sl.27.1.14gut.
External links[]
- Rena Torres Cacoullos' Homepage
- Website for NSF-Funded Project on Language Convergence via Code-switching
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