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Dr. Tania Leal (University of Arizona) - Presentation on Second Language Acquisition of French

Dr. Leal will present collaborative research with Elena Shimanskaya (U. Nevada-Reno) on the second language acquisition of French structures by native speakers of Spanish and English. See flyer for link to presentation abstract.

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María González-Ferrer Wins UGA's Excellence in Teaching Award

María González-Ferrer, a Ph.D. candidate in Hispanic Linguistics at UGA, has been awarded the prestigious Excellence in Teaching Award for graduate students. Graduating this May, María is one of up to five recipients of this annual honor, jointly presented by the Graduate School, the Center for Teaching and Learning, and the UGA Teaching Academy. She was recognized for her outstanding contributions to the university’s instructional mission while…
Linguistics, Spanish

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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 Symposium, 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

Left to right: Alvaro Ley Garrido, Talita Nassur, and Michel Soares do Carmo
Six Romance Languages Graduate Students Receive 2024 Outstanding Teaching Award

Every year the Center for Teaching and Learning recognizes the significant contributions graduate students make to the instructional mission of the University of Georgia through Teaching Awards sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Instruction. This year, graduate students Erin Bolívar (PhD candidate in Hispanic Studies & Italian), María González-Ferrer (PhD candidate in Hispanic Linguistics), Álvaro Ley Garrido (PhD student in…
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Portuguese, Linguistics, Spanish, French

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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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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. Timothy Gupton, appeared in the most recent volume of the journal Revista International de Lingüística Iberoamericana (RILI). Congratulations to Dr. Gupton! 
Linguistics, Spanish, Romance Languages

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New Romance Linguistics Faculty Publication

The article "Why we need a gradient approach to word order" recently appeared (ahead of print) in the journal Linguistics. An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences. This project was led by Dr. Natalia Levishna (Max Planck Institute) and Dr. Savithry Namboodiripad (University of Michigan), and was co-authored by a team of international researchers including Dr. Timothy Gupton. ​​​​This paper started as collection of separate…
Linguistics, Spanish, Romance Languages

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New Romance Linguistics faculty publication

The article "Focus at the syntax–discourse interface in L2 Spanish: Optionality and unaccusativity reconsidered", by Dr. Timothy Gupton (UGA, Romance Languages) and Dr. Silvia Sánchez Calderón (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain) recently appeared in the journal Second Language Research. Data for this project was gathered at UGA and in Valencia, Spain with the cooperation of UGA en España. Congratulations to Dr. Gupton!
Linguistics, Spanish


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