EDUCATION

Columbia University 1966 B.S. Magna Cum Laude
School of General Studies (major: Linguistics; minor:
Spanish)

Columbia University 1968 M.A. in Linguistics
(language specialty: Spanish)

Columbia University l972 Ph.D. in Linguistics

LANGUAGES

Native Spanish and English; fluent French and Catalan; understand Italian, Portuguese, German; structural knowledge of Japanese and Romanian.

STUDY ABROAD

Three years Bachillerato in Barcelona, Spain; Summer course in Spanish Literature, University of Barcelona; Dissertation Research at Oesterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, and at Biblioteca Central, Barcelona; Extensive field work in northern and central Spain.

HONORS

B.S. Magna Cum Laude; Phi Beta Kappa; Nominated for Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for Graduate Study; Nominated for Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for Dissertation Research; F.J.E. Woodridge Distinguished Fellow for 1972-73; American Philosophical Society Grant, 1977; Nominated for Guggenheim Fellowship, 1982; U.S. Spain-Joint Committee for Educational and Cultural Affairs: Postdoctoral Research Grant, 1984; S.U.N.Y. Grant for Research Assistance, 1984; S.U.N.Y. Research Development Grant, 1988.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Linguistics Society of America; International Society for Historical Linguistics; Asociación de Historia de la Lengua Española; American Association of University Professors; North Americal Catalan Society; ALDEEU (Association of Spanish Professionals in the U.S.).

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS (Postdoctoral)

Hunter College of C.U.N.Y., Graduate Program in Bilingual
Education: Adjunct Assistant Professor, Spring l973

Georgetown University, School of Languages and Linguistics:
Assistant Professor l973-1982 (research leaves l977-79, l982-83)

State University of New York at Stony Brook, Department of
Hispanic Languages and Literatures: Assistant Professor, 1983-1990; Associate Professor 1990-.

COURSES TAUGHT

Historical linguistics
Dialectology and sociolinguistics
Semantic Analysis
Contrastive grammar of English and Spanish
Contrastive phonology of English and Spanish
Lexicon and word-formation
Practicum in teaching Spanish
Methods for recording and analyzing speech
The lexicon
History of Linguistics

TEACHING BY INVITATION

For Graduate Programs in Linguistics of Universidad Central de Caracas and of Universidad de los Andes, Mérida (Venezuela): Two intensive week-long seminars on meaningful analysis of morphosyntax (March 1988); individual classes at Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain (1985) and at University of Leiden, Holland (1991), Universidad Central de Barcelona, Spain (1992), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain (1993 and 1994); semester course on investigation of spoken language, for Doctoral Program at Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (Fall 1999).

PUBLICATIONS

1975 "Pragmatic constraints on distribution: the Spanish subjunctive," in Papers from the Eleventh Regional Meeting, Chicago Linguistic Society. Chicago.

1976 "`Same vs. different' crosslinguistically: the `articles' in English and in Spanish," in Papers from the Twelfth Regional Meeting, Chicago Linguistic Society. Chicago.

1979 "Factores sociales en algunas diferencias linguísticas en Castilla la Vieja," in Cambio social en el sur de Europa (Papers: Revista de Sociología 11), edited by Jesús M. de Miguel. 45-64.

1980 "Pragmatic and sociolinguistic bias in semantic change," in Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, edited by Elizabeth C. Traugott et. al. (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science IV: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, Volume 14. Series edited by E. F. Konrad Koerner). Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1980. 61-74.

1980 "Experimental verification of semantic hypotheses applied to mood in Spanish," in Georgetown Papers in Language and Linguistics 17 (Spring 1980). 15-34.

1980 "A quantitative study of syntactic and pragmatic indications of change in the Spanish of bilinguals in the U.S.," in Locating Language in Time and Space, edited by William Labov (Quantitative Analyses of Linguistic Structure 1.) Series edited by William Labov and David Sankoff). 68-82.

1981 "Distintos sistemas de empleo de le, la, lo: perspectiva sincrónica, diacrónica, y sociolinguística," Thesaurus (Boletín del Instituto Caro y Cuervo) 26. 1-21. Reprinted in Los Pronombres Atonos, edited by Olga Fernández - Soriano. Madrid: Taurus Universitaria, 1993.

1981 "Neuterality, or the semantics of gender in a dialect of Castilla," in Linguistic symposium on Romance Languages: IX. Edited by William Cressey and Donna Jo Napoli. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. 164-176.

1983 Discourse Perspectives on Syntax. New York: Academic Press.

1983 "Grammar in style: adjective placement in Spanish," in Discourse Perspectives on Syntax, edited by Flora Klein-Andreu. New York: Academic Press. 143-179.

1986 "La cuestión del anglicismo: apriorismos y métodos," in Thesaurus (Boletín del Instituto Caro y Cuervo) 40. 1-16.

1986 "Speaker-based and reference-based factors in language: non- past conditional sentences in Spanish," in Studies in Romance Linguistics: Proceedings of the Linguistic
Symposium on Romance Languages XIV, edited by Osvaldo Jaeggli and Carmen Silva-Corvalán. Dordrecht: Foris. 99-119.

1988 "Who does what to whom: person and case in children's utterances". Washington: ERIC Microfiche.

1989 "Why speech seems ungrammatical," in From Sign to Text: A Semiotic View of Communication, edited by Yishai Tobin (in Foundations of Semiotics, series edited by Achim Eschbach). Amsterdam: Benjamins.

1989 "Speech priorities". In The Pragmatics of Style, edited by Leo Hickey. London: Routledge.

1990 "Restricciones pragmáticas a la distribución: el subjuntivo en español". (Translation of 1975 "Pragmatic Constraints on Distribution".) In Indicativo y Subjuntivo, edited by Ignacio Bosque. Madrid: Taurus Universitaria. 303-314.

1991 "Losing ground: a discourse-pragmatic solution to the history of -ra in Spanish." In Discourse-Pragmatics and the Verb: the Evidence from Romance. Edited by Suzanne Fleischman and Linda R. Waugh. London: Routledge.

1991 "Invariance in grammar, variation in discourse." In New Vistas in Grammar: Invariance and Variation, edited by Linda R. Waugh and Stephen Rudy. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

1993 "Understanding Standards." In Explanation in Historical Linguistics, edited by Garry Davis and Gregory K. Iverson. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

1994 "The Painless Subjunctive". In Studies in Language Learning and Spanish Linguistics in Honor of Tracy D. Terrell. Edited by P. Hashemipour et. al. New York: McGraw Hill.

1995 "Conversational Focus". In Meaning as Explanation: Advances in Linguistic Sign Theory, edited by Ellen Contini-Morava and Barbara Sussman Goldberg. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

1996 "Anaphora, deixis, and the evolution of Latin ILLE." In Studies in Anaphora, edited by Barbara Fox. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

1999 "Variación e historia," in Estudios sobre Variación Sintáctica, edited by María José Serrano. Vervuert-Iberoamérica.

2000 "Grammatical and lexical behavior in the development of the Spanish third-person clitics." In Between grammar and lexicon, edited by Ellen Contini-Morava and Yishai Tobin. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 159-183.

2000 Le/s la/s lo/s: Variación actual y evolución histórica. Munich: LINCOM EUROPA.

2002 "3p pronoun use in Castilla: Current variation and
historical development." In 2002: Romanistische Korpuslinguistik. Korpora und Gesprochene sprache/ Romance Corpus Linguistics. Corpora and Spoken Language, edited by Claus D. Pusch and Wolfgang Raible. Tübingen: Gunter Narr.